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In some cases, the technology has outed LGBTQ+ children and eroded trust between students and school staff

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Good luck stopping radicalization with oppression…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

It's great that school are surveiling kids.

Does it means that school will finally get an appointed psychologist that meets the kids regularly to check on their mental health ? This way if there is any sign of depression they can easily get some free counseling sessions ?

What do you mean "This is not how we do things here !" ?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Here we go again. They just want to "protect kids"!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Schools are surveilling kids. (Full stop)

I think it's important to ask some basic questions to all affected school district superintendents.

  1. Why is the school resorting to surveilling my child?
  2. What data is collected on my child?
  3. Who do the schools share my child's information with?
  4. How is my child's data collected?
  5. When is my child's data deleted?

I'm sure you an come up with more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are acting like you or the kid has any rights here...

Supreme court spoken and those old school rulings in modern context are very concerning

Public schools into the US is like a prison and putting child in there comes with serious risks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like getting shanked, then getting in trouble because of the zero tolerance policy (even when the parents brought up the offender before).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Public schooling is there to ensure that by 12th grade every idiot understand their pecking order within US caste system

People love talking about bullying but everyone is denial who the bullies really are... Is kids of the wealthier people who are able to get away with it.

School admin won't fuck with them... Because who wants to deal with the Karen parents so it is easier to let the other kids suffer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why fix the actual socio-economic and political issues which lead to school shootings when you can pull a Big Brother with barely functional AI models!

I'm just hittin'em right outta the park, should've worked in Marketing!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.

But I doubt it will.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It absolutely won't. What we will get is a bunch of kids profiled and harassed by an administration that sees "Suspected School Shooter!!! ALERT!! ALERT!!" popping up based on vague suspicions and poorly conceived correlations.

The argument I saw one fascist use on a Facebook thread some years back was "If you were handed a bowl of M&Ms and you were told one of the brown ones was poisoned, how many would you leave in your bowl?" That's the logic behind these algorithmic surveillance programs. Just grab known data points and draw a line through them. And the data points they lean into - age, race, gender, zip code - are what the system can grab rather than what might conceivably inform you of a person's psychological state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It seems that the data shows that most school shooters are white. I bet this is going to cause a lot of head scratches when the "black box" starts profiling whites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It seems that the data shows that most school shooters are white.

Most Americans are white, so that's not a surprise. But white communities aren't over-policed and over-surveiled like tanner neighborhoods. So white students will look "generic" while certain black, brown, and Asian students will pop out of the data as "suspects" more visibly.

Case in point

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide.

Ostensibly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

USA and trying anything other than gun control and access to mental health services, name a more iconic duo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Re the snippet: As a geeky gay guy coming to terms + coming out in the early 2000s, school faculty has always been void of trust, compassion, or safety. Hell, the majority of the motherfuckers I bumped into are vile pieces of bile and shit, that hate their lives and the poor decisions that brought them there, and will happily make an awful experience even worse, by any means possible, and do it with a smile on their face. 20+ years later, they just have more power to be even bigger shitstains.

At least all the fuckers that I encountered will all be dead soon - I will have a lot of graves to dance on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Or... you know... they could try to do more about bullying?