This is a link to the Tech Friday Video we made on February 28th, 2014
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Tuesday Write #11
The topic of this article from last week is about a school hiring a private company to track the social media activity of the student body. The school decided to take this action after multiple teen suicides and reports of cyber bullying. According to the school's administration, there would be consequences if the students did something they considered wrong.
As a student, I feel this is completely absurd and unjustified. I feel the school is wasting $40,000 dollars on something that will do nothing but make the students hate them. This tracking also seems to violate the student's freedom of speech. First Amendment Coalition Director Peter Scheer said "Disciplining students for posts made outside of school could infringe on the students free-speech rights". The school should not be able to tell the students what they can or can't say, especially outside of school. However, there has been a response from adults, as seen in the article "Assemblyman Mike Gatto forwards bill to limit record of student posts".
In this case, "Big Brother" is the company monitoring the students
As a student, I feel this is completely absurd and unjustified. I feel the school is wasting $40,000 dollars on something that will do nothing but make the students hate them. This tracking also seems to violate the student's freedom of speech. First Amendment Coalition Director Peter Scheer said "Disciplining students for posts made outside of school could infringe on the students free-speech rights". The school should not be able to tell the students what they can or can't say, especially outside of school. However, there has been a response from adults, as seen in the article "Assemblyman Mike Gatto forwards bill to limit record of student posts".
The First Amendment is explained in this video
If this happened at my own school, I would be very mad. I feel I should have the right to say whatever I want (especially when I am not at school). I would feel oppressed, and probably take action against the school. This is not fair in my opinion. I think if cyber bullying ever became an issue, it would be better for the school to have more assemblies about the topic, not intrude on the student's privacy to make sure cyber bullying is not happening. There are websites that are not even part of San Ramon Valley High School that focus on preventing cyber bullying at the school, such as the "uknowkids cyberbullying prevention website". Fortunately, at my school there does not seem to be much bullying (physical or cyber bullying), so hopefully we will never have to see a situation like this at San Ramon Valley High School.
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