[Vision2020] Teenagers and responsibility

[Donovan Arnold]

Kai,
 
I think you fail to understand the distinction between an adult in his own home on his own computer being monitored and a child using a school computer to commit illegal activities. The difference is night and day.
 
Children on the way to and from school are also under the supervision of schools.
 
There is an obligation on the schools, in part, to protect children from harm and doing harm if they are equipping them with tools that could do harm to themselves or others. 
 
If the school gives a boy a computer, he learns to build a bomb on it and brings it to school the next day and kills a dozen students and teachers, the school is in part responsible. 
 
If the school gives a girl a computer, she meets a sexual predator on it, and ends up getting hurt, raped, or killed, the school is in part responsible.
 
It is absolutely reckless to allow children, unfettered and unmonitored, to do whatever they want on a computer. Children need supervision, on and off the Internet. The schools provided the computers, so they bare, in part, some of the responsibility of supervising the child's use of it regardless of the physical location of the school property they loaned.
 
I maintain, that the only crime the school committed was that they failed to report to students and parents that all computer usage would be monitored including content taken on the camera. 
 
Did you know the United States Federal Government has access to Google Database which holds and retains for years every thing you looked up on its search engine?
 
Did you know the US Government doesn't need a warrant to access and record your conversations on a wireless phone?
 
Did you know the US Government can scan and read your mail without opening it and use Optical Recognition Software to read and store every word?
 
Did you know there is passive transmitter in your dollar bill which the government can read within special equipment and tell exactly how much cash you have on you (hold it up to the light, you will see it)?
 
Did you know when you enter an airport or any federal building you automatically forfeit you right to refuse a search of you and your property?
 
The privacy you think you have is only in your head. 
 
 
Your Friend,
 
Donovan Arnold 
 
 
 


--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Kai Eiselein <fotopro63 at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Kai Eiselein <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Teenagers and responsibility
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 5:38 PM




Donovan,
 
I think you are failing to grasp that this went far beyond "monitoring computer usage", they were monitoring the students' behavior, off-campus, in their own homes.
No one, I repeat, no one, has that right without a court issued warrant. The school invaded the privacy and sanctity of at least one home and I hope that those who did this will face federal criminal charges. If found guily, I hope they receive lengthy prison sentences.
 
 
 
Kai



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