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Your (kids') schools are run by idiots, facsists, and maybe pedophiles.
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There's no "mark". They have to prove they are entitled to whatever damages they eventually request - this is just to get the other side's attention.
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I'll get the horse, you get the rope.
The fact that the district has not fired anyone makes me sympathize with people who support school vouchers.
The kid is in high school and it took a picture every 15 minutes while his computer was on.
The chance of there not being masurbation pictures is essentially 0.
Yeah, that quote is the most fucked-up part. Why were they using the system 24/7 instead of just on laptops that had been stolen? And how could the people doing this think that it was OK?
Not just him but every student that had one
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Its going to be even funnier when you realise that probably a few of these laptops where owned by girls. Secretly spying on halfnaked boys is one thing, but halfnaked girls.... Thats when shit is really going to hit the fan. Doublestandards yay?? (not really).
Probably because someone confused "Won't someone think of the children?" with "I'd like my own personalized soap opera, complete with nudity and pill popping."
What with the Catholic scandal getting into gear, I think people can still work up a rage about sexual abuse of boys when they need to.
I'mma go ahead and say that they can work up 10% of a rage about pictures being taken of half-naked boys versus half-naked girls. The general gist in our society is that adolescent boys are willing to have sex with any animate (or sexually suggestive inanimate) object at the drop of a pin, so any sort of sexual exploitation (like female teacher / male student sex) is totally okay.
Things become not okay when the sexual exploitation enters other taboo domains like physical pain, homosexuality, or pedophilia. So male teacher / male student is #2 homosexuality and potentially #1 physically painful, and priest / little boy is #1 #2 and #3.
The standards for girls, on the other hand, are totally different. They're innocent budding flowers who need to be idolized yet not fantasized about. If you look at a high-school aged girl the wrong way you're likely to become a sexual offender real soon. God forbid a male teacher has sex with a female student; he's pretty much ruined her prospects of ever finding a decent man to marry now.
Oh wait, that double-standard IS pretty outdated and misogynistic...
Wait. Trowzilla goes to that school?
Seriously though, any chance any of these administrators become sex offenders? A hard drive full of teens gone wild would bestow that title upon any of us should law enforcement find it.
If they found a hard drive full of naked teens, then yeah, otherwise doubtful. If the school can construe it as a purely "for the children" kind of thing, which they undoubtedly will, a jury will no doubt side with them.
You've gotta ask why a principal of a school outside of DC would need to have that at work. You've also gotta ask why the VP is breaking into the principal's office but that's another story...
So far nothing has been done about this. Teachers suspect he won't be at that school next year.
Also, the school has a supply budget of ~$10,000 for a year. The principal decided to spend most of that money on a end of the year gala for the students. Meanwhile teachers have to buy their own copy paper, supplies, and printer ink/toner....
Laptop Spy Scandal Administrator Just "Loved" Violating Students' Fourth Amendment Rights
And now the FBI are trying to get involved due to an estimated 56k pics taken with the program, but are being stymied by a US District Judge due to an order blocking either party from disseminating their evidence to outside sources. Link
Wow... I just... wow...
Seriously this whole situation seems surreal to me and the question now isn't whether or not they were doing something wrong but ultimately how do you punish an entire school district of teachers/faculty. I mean do you just start from the ground up and say you're all fired and some of you are looking at some serious jail time, or do you simply replace the heads of staff (principal, vice principal, superintendent). Honestly though I can't believe not one teacher spoke out through this whole ordeal though.
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I really don't understand how my generation is going to develop a sense of civic duty when school administrations are hell bent on attacking their rights. I really don't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUsiKfeDfo&eurl=http://areasofmyexpertise.blogspot.com/
http://www.ugo.com/movies/babylon-ad-video-gallery/?cur=vin-diesel-dungeons-and-dragons&morepics=1
Or maybe they could just put masking tape over the webcam? Or is that something they'd probably get detention for?
edit: and since this guy thinks the webcam is so easy to neutralize, how does he think the software will be useful in any way for recovering stolen laptops? Which was ostensibly the entire point of all this bullshit.
They most likely would get detention, I know the school had a pretty draconian computer policy set up. As to a warning though, if the school had made it clear that they could and would take pictures and otherwise monitor computer use by the kids, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem, as long as it was clear what the policy on the pictures was and their use/retention. Even then it's still an incredibly fine line to walk, one I would think any liability minded district would run like hell from.
I think the parents are simply trying to circle the wagons here and protect their own, however misguided their attempts may be. When this first broke, there was even a contingent of district parents who were circling petitions in support of the district's penchant for photos if I remember correctly.
That's not new, is it? We had that "soap opera" comment earlier in the thread.
Nope.
This was a tech thing, and it was overseen by administration. The kerplunchiks talking about it are central office, not teachers.
Odds are the average teacher at the school had no idea this was going on.
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Shit, I must have missed that from before. I hate being that guy.
I don't know, I read the part where the staffer replied to the IT admin in an email saying "I know, I love it," as a teacher saying that. I guess you are right though it is feasible that none of the teachers at the school knew about it.
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There's been absolutely no indication in any of this that the teachers knew what was happening.
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