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by panzagl 7y ago
Thanks, if there's an official announcement of the announcement in the next couple weeks we may wait, but I'm not going to stand in the way of checking another box on the go-to-college-checklist otherwise...
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by panzagl 7y ago
I think that this was mentioned during the tour last year, but holy hell is it hard to find this info from Apple- they want symptoms and an AppleId...
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by panzagl 7y ago
My daughter wants a Macbook when she leaves for college next month- no Apple store within a 8-hour drive. Does anyone have experience getting this type of stuff fixed through whatever arrangement Apple has with a typical University? Is Ap
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by panzagl 7y ago
Or a school has fewer resources than the NSA. And don't think I don't see the potential for abuse, but I see the potential for abuse in basically everything. You have to give organizations the benefit of the doubt the same way you
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by panzagl 7y ago
Lol, how about 6/5?
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by panzagl 7y ago
There are laws in place to address public release of info about minors. A lot of schools require a parent's signature before they'll post a public picture of a student, even if just captured incidentally. My wife's school is
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by panzagl 7y ago
Because discipline can be made to stick- Timmy can be suspended and when Mom comes in to say it can't be his fault, because that would imply it was her fault and she's never been held responsible for her actions before, oh well to
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by panzagl 7y ago
But what privacy is there in a classroom? Theoretically the teacher could capture the same information by being more observant.
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by panzagl 7y ago
There are good questions below about lifetime of the video, etc. and while I can just state that everything is fine, the real answer is that schools in the US are not the closed organizations that are implied by a lot of the response here.
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by panzagl 7y ago
Well, yeah, but calling a parent in and saying 'you need to stop partying until 3am with your boyfriend of the week so Timmy can get some sleep and not be an impulsive little monster with no respect for his female teacher' does no
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by panzagl 7y ago
No one actually watches the video, unless something happens. And this is an elementary classroom- resolution of petty squabbles means 28 kids don't get to learn while 2 others yell 'he did it first'. They can be beasts to eac
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by panzagl 7y ago
I don't know how much it even really decreases outbursts in the classroom- this is at the elementary level so all the kids are pretty impulsive. But the reality is that it gives teachers a tool to make admin and parents address the be
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by panzagl 7y ago
The footage is only kept at the school. My wife's job is not to be the total arbiter of social justice for her students, it is to provide them with an education.
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by panzagl 7y ago
Since I can't read the article I can only go with story time here- my wife has cameras in her room and she loves them. Fights about 'who started it' are ended with the words, 'Ok, let's look at the video'. And
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by panzagl 7y ago
The article also has pictures of Asheville and Berea, the former famous for it's ties to the super-rich, the latter a long time artists' colony. Was there even a picture of a trailer in the article? Or a church?
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by panzagl 7y ago
Well, both have behaved irresponsibly at a time when space is already pretty busy. When the US and USSR went through their 'hold my beer' phase of space exploration, they could really only hurt themselves. My favorite US 'oo
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by panzagl 7y ago
Actually, thinking about it, mass violence is probably secondary in these systems to predicting suicidal behavior. And while you can argue a principal shouldn't have to worry if a kid is bullied into suicide, or whether an underage gir
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by panzagl 7y ago
For an individual family homeschooling may make sense, assuming they really are committed to it. The socialization issues are minor, and I agree that keeping them away from the 'bad' element is a huge plus. But for society as a wh
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by panzagl 7y ago
That's a separate problem- students play dumb so class is easy as the teacher struggles to figure out how the kids made it so far. Then they get dinged when kids do miserably on standardized tests. And they don't dare just flunk
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by panzagl 7y ago
Amen. I feel so bad about how much I look forward to the occasional travel I do for work...
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by panzagl 7y ago
Oh yeah, nobody who is an educator would ever say such a thing. But as the spouse of one you can only hear so many stories of behavior before you start asking what the other students were learning while one kid goes on a 15 minute meltdown.
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by panzagl 7y ago
So you're saying you were beyond all influence so they just should have left you alone? At that point they should have expelled you- did you ever think of the damage you were doing to the rest of the school population by your actions?
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by panzagl 7y ago
How does it go beyond? The systems discussed either grab public social media, or monitor information created on the schools' machines. I don't know that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy on either.
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by panzagl 7y ago
Our it could have earlier identified you as 'at-risk', and led to more positive interventions in your education. You fell through the cracks, that's hardly an optimal outcome.
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by panzagl 7y ago
Do any of the naysayers here work in a public capacity- teacher, law enforcement, military/intelligence, etc? Have you ever been solely responsible for the security and well-being of more than, say a half-dozen total strangers? It&#x2
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by panzagl 7y ago
In a space agency a Principle Space Architect would be responsible for constellation design and acquisition- they'd rarely get their hands dirty with constructing their own powerpoint slides, much less chemical handling. Presumably th
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by panzagl 7y ago
let me draft for the next mile and I'll support Sil->Ber from Kiel...
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by panzagl 7y ago
I guess London doesn't have the equivalent of Golden Corral or Old Country Buffet, or a decent diner now that I think of it. I wonder if she moved to English equivalent of the burbs there would be something more inviting.
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by panzagl 7y ago
There is a lot of politics involved in school cafeteria lunches- nutrition, allergies, religious restrictions, quality, cost, big food conspirists and lobbyists and whatever nutrition fad is current all have proponents who are perfectly wil
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by panzagl 7y ago
If by 'rapidly improve' you mean 'become even more mired in regulation, over-analysis and responsibility-shedding behavior' then sure, I guess.

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