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I grew up one township over from Lower Merion and am frankly shocked to hear about all this going down (part of my home township is split between Lower Merion a
by rit 17y ago
I grew up one township over from Lower Merion and am frankly shocked to hear about all this going down (part of my home township is split between Lower Merion and my school district)
It's the kind of absurdity that I wouldn't expect - it's a fairly wealthy school district and I'm not surprised at the giving of laptops to students. What I'm shocked at is that they seem to have completely failed to a) Hire competent and reliable IT staff b) Internalized and understood the security and liability issues at an administrative level.
- jrockway 17y agoNo, what's frightening is that they did hire competent staff, and they did understand the liability issues. Then they did this anyway.
- covercash 17y agoUDSD? I can tell you that if they had the technical knowledge to implement something like this, they certainly would have.
- rit 17y agoPresumably you mean Upper Darby, in which case no, I was at Haverford. I was out before Haverford started really implementing computers (at the time they didn't even have computers for the teachers) but I suspect you're right - if they could have done something like this they would have. I can recall a very particular mentality among the administration there which was much along the lines of 'protect the students from themselves at all costs'. A shame, though.
- cookiecaper 17y agoI haven't seen anything to demonstrate incompetent IT staff. It's not like a server leaked with tons of pictures of kids at home. It just seems like not only the competent IT staff, but also the school and district administration, felt it was OK to randomly activate and get pictures and screenshots of all of the students.