Reason 1,254,972

Thursday 29 March 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

School programs designed to monitor what their students do and say outside of school and school hours, and administrators expelling students based on said monitoring. Yahoo News:

From Facebook communications to tweets, you’re no doubt already aware that nothing you do online is truly private. But should you have a reasonable expectation that your superiors aren’t actively spying on you? That’s the question a lot of people are asking after Garrett High School in Indiana expelled a high school senior for cursing over Twitter during off-school hours.

The tweet in question dropped the F-bomb a number of times, but was otherwise non-threatening. It was posted at 2:30 a.m. — a time when the student in question was most assuredly not at school. Still, despite the evidence, the school stands by its decision to expel the student.

How did the school discover that one of its students dared to tweet an offending word during the middle of the night? Simple: Garrett High School’s computer system actively tracks the social media presence of its students. Because the student logged on to his account during school hours, the system was able to find and report the foul-mouthed tweet, leading to the expulsion.

Public school is all about respecting authority, even when a school administrator doesn’t have any authority over its students. They feel they can control what students do and say, even outside of school and school hours.

Also, what’s up with Yahoo carrying water for this authoritarian system by labeling school administrators as “superiors?” Teachers aren’t the “superiors” of students. They are fucking teachers with a joke of a degree and a certificate, not Einstein.

2012-03-29  »  madlibertarianguy