This is worrisome especially considering the fact the private information at stake is that of minors. I personally believe schools are too quick to jump on the

This is worrisome especially considering the fact the private information at stake is that of minors. I personally believe schools are too quick to jump on the "new tech" bandwagon without actually evaluating whether their new shiny apps are actually more effective in teaching than the traditional methods. It's like the CSMP madness x 10. You have schools promoting "one laptop per child" when numerous studies have some that laptops in the classroom decrease material retention. A lot of these additions are just so the schools can look better on paper. I remember when my high school installed smartboards under some upgrade-tech initiative. Very few teachers actually need the extra capabilities that smartboards had. It was all so they could impress parents with their "state of the art" classrooms.