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Orange County Public Schools To Monitor Students On Social Media
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Orange County, Florida, is undertaking a sweeping effort to snoop on the social media communications of the county's public school students and staff, for the nebulous task of "[ensuring] safe school operations," and say they will use the software (at a license cost of about $13,000 per year) "to conduct routine monitoring for purposes of prevention or early intervention of potential issues where students or staff could be at risk to themselves or to others." The software they're using is from Snaptrends, which offers "location-based social media discovery." According to one of the comments attached to the linked story, there are monthly fees, in addition to the annual licensing cost.
I am so glad they finally are doing what everybody is asking for. We hear a lot of complaining that all schools do is learn people to take tests. And now finally we prepare students for the real world. .
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Orange County parent groups to monitor Orange County Public Schools Monitoring Students On Social Media.
Do As I Say, Not, As I Do....
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It will be great when schools have all the funds they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy another bomber.
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Bah! It's not serious until you can stash a whole bag of Cheetos in it... and if you can do it without taking them out of the bag you are an honorary member of ZZ Top!
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