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Of course, the justification wouldn't have been "her actions," but the reasoning would go something like this: 1. She is a student using personal electronics o
by superuser2 14y ago
Of course, the justification wouldn't have been "her actions," but the reasoning would go something like this:
1. She is a student using personal electronics on school property during school hours without permission. This is explicitly disallowed in the handbook she and her parents would have been compelled to sign. This is not about food - she broke the rules.
2. That's great that she wants to be a journalist, but you never know what's going to happen with children in possession of cameras. Sexting! Cyberbullying! Violation of privacy! And with the Internet these days... She is not old enough to appreciate the consequences of what can happen with cameras. Maybe in 11th or 12th grade she can join extracurriculars that introduce students to photography in an age-appropriate, supervised, and controlled environment.
As a matter of policy, the school recommends that parents who give their children smartphones use parental controls to disable the camera, restrict internet access to school-approved websites, and always monitor calls and text messages. If a child needs the Internet for research purposes, a parent should always sit next to the child and supervise.
3. All personal electronics are distractions and disrupt the learning environment.
These arguments play very well with the mainstream American media. In fact, the media makes these arguments all the time, probably more vigorously than school officials would.
This PR problem would have been trivial to crush had administration desired to crush it.
- droithomme 14y agoTotally accurate; nice summary; have seen this myself; was thinking the exact same things while reading the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Kids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Kids recommended to those who are skeptical. Nothing is your post is overly dramatic or exaggerated in the least.
- malnourish 14y agoAs a person a few years out of high school myself, I was more shocked by your disclaimer for exaggeration than by the post above. Everything said seems normal and logical for the schools I've encountered (and the local/regional/national media) to report, given their dispositions and previous conduct.
- droithomme 14y agoYes, things were a lot different back in the day when I was a youth. Which wasn't as long ago as you might think. It's both very alarming to me the way things are handled in schools, and that so many seem to think it is a good thing and that so few realize the dangers. To someone who went to school even 20 years ago who hasn't been following the changes the above post might seem an outlandish scenario that could never happen in America land of the free.
- unimpressive 14y agoThe more conspiratorial side of me likes to think that school is a prison camp used by vested interests to teach American citizens from a young age that they have no rights and to stymie any sort of real intellectual development by providing large globs of homework and projects. But some people require more than the standard to weigh them down. Like in Harrison Bergerson.[0] And the only reason that they don't force extra work to match is that citizens would recognize the inherent unfairness and be offended that their children weren't thought worthy of extra work. So instead they paint it as a way to make your application look better to colleges. (Think hi-cap.) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron Disclosure: I am in high school.
- droithomme 14y ago> school is a prison camp used by vested interests to teach American citizens from a young age that they have no rights and to stymie any sort of real intellectual development There's a pretty strong argument made that that is actually the case and its intentional, backed by actual history. Have you read The Underground History of American Education? It's extremely interesting and well referenced. Read it free here, or get the print book on amazon if you like. http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
- vacri 14y agoSo the equivalent amount of schooling in all other industrialised nations is a separate thing? It's just in the US that it was engendered as a prison camp? There's a fair amount of tinfoil in that claim.
- unimpressive 14y agoFor what it's worth, I did once read in a (To me obviously left leaning.) textbook that the nation-state and nationalism were invented by France through the use of something approximating the modern school system. I searched the web, but couldn't find another source for you. Sorry.
- swah 14y agoAppreciate the freedom you guuys have to homeschool your kids. In my contry, parents that didn't enlist their children into schools have gone to jail.