In southern California, there school district is trying to stop any cyber-bullying by monitoring the public posts that the students make on any social media outlet. The district is paying about $40,500 to someone to listen in on the students to see if they violate the schools student code of conduct. The district thinks that this plan has been working very well but teenagers disagree. The teenagers think that its there way to express there feelings to there friends and the school intruding in there area outside of school is wrong.
I think that the teenagers are right the schools shouldn't intrude on the students social media outside of school because its there way to get away from school and express there feelings and stay in contact with there friends. The southern California school district should give the students there a little more freedom.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/15/school-district-monitors-social-media/2817299/
Its a violation of the teen's privacy. Of course we say thing that might be a little questionable to the code of conduct but most of us won't really act on anything. Things like cyber bullying happen all the time and it hard to control it but invasion of privacy is really wrong and unconstitutional.
ReplyDeleteThis is a little too much in my opinion. I understand wanting to keep an eye on students but paying someone to monitor them is going a little over board.
ReplyDeleteThe school should mind their own business. It's not their job to monitor the students outside of school.
ReplyDeleteI think that cyberbullying is an issue, but I agree that monitoring the students social media is wrong. Students need freedom to express there opinions, and what students say or do outside of school is not really any of the school districts business.
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