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School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the my-worm-ate-my-homework dept.

Lucas123 writes "Seventh and eighth graders in Tulsa, Oklahoma not only get tablet PCs at the beginning of the school year, but they are now issued 100MB of storage through a hosted school 'Web Locker' system. The Web lockers also include chat, calendaring, and collaboration capabilities, but school administrators can also monitor and track all files uploaded to the system, and lock out individuals for misuse."

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  1. Whats the point of having a "locker" by antifoidulus · · Score: 0, Troll

    if you cannot be shoved in it? I mean come on, those traumatic memories are the basis for our geekdom, or am I alone on this?

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    Monstar L
  2. Re:Useless... by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because the whole purpose of it is to spy on the kids ... duh! They even admit its one of the big "features."

    Get kids used to it now, and they'll vote for it later. Same as the idea behind setting up the Hitler Youth (hey, its not a Godwin if its an appropriate reference :-).

    Whoever proposed this is a dickhead. If the kids are smart, they'll bring bootable thumb drives with a bootable copy of peanut linux or some other mini-distro on it.