RABIES Alert! A school over in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania now faces lawsuits over allegations that the school was using cameras and laptops to spy on students at home. Though the school claims that the camera and tracking systems on the laptops are used as a method to detect lost or stolen laptops, the claim falls short for a couple of reasons.
1) If the school is loaning out laptops to students to use, it surly has some sort of sign-out procedure that keeps track of which computer is in the hands of which student, and would thus negate any need for the spy system. If the school however, is foolish enough not to use this method, it really has itself to blame, and should implement it immediately.
2)The school did not release this explanation well until after twenty-four hours after the story broke national news (we can assume that the suit was filed well even before this, though his is yet to be verified). If the school’s explanation were truly as benign as it claimed, surely it could have said so from the start. The time lapse points to a PR scramble, like the Thomas Paine Elementary cover-up , to come up with some plausible explanation now that they have been caught.
Of further interest to us is the name and type of class that would be using the laptops, and the teacher involved. What is their union status and affiliation? We shall be watching.
Posted by Hound No. 4
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