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Installing monitoring software (spyware) on a laptop that is owned by the school is legit only if you consider the student exactly that: a suspect. In that sens
by carschno 5y ago
Installing monitoring software (spyware) on a laptop that is owned by the school is legit only if you consider the student exactly that: a suspect. In that sense, your comment is spot-on.
Following that logic, the act itself does not seem malicious. However, the logic of seeing students as suspects is.
- simonh 5y agoThat's fair, I'm not saying they are right to do it in that sense.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoI have a sort of extremist take on this: students are literally prisoners. The job of a high school is to keep students from harming each other, feed them, and occasionally teach them something. It’s why one of the highest offenses is to leave school grounds during school. Ditto for prison. In that light, of course students are suspects. They’re already guilty of not being adults. They’re not allowed to have jobs, or to decide what they want to learn, or any of the other things that make adults human. I don’t know what to do about it, but recognizing it seems step one.
- tailspin2019 5y ago> students are literally prisoners You're being downvoted, but I often felt exactly this way throughout my school years.
- Aeolun 5y ago> However, the logic of seeing students as suspects is. Is it? I don’t think I know any high school student that hasn’t tried to muck with, or work around, the schools systems.
- hoseja 5y agoAnd "solving" that "problem" is not a good thing.
- JohnClark1337 5y ago