The Glendale Unified School District has hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor public social media posts made by its students to find out when teens are in trouble or causing it.
Superintendent Richard Sheehan said Geo Listening is analyzing the posts of 13,000 students at eight Glendale middle and high schools.
The goal is to give school administrators critical information as soon as possible."Critical information as soon as possible."
Key & Peele: Phone Call
33 comments:
No comment.
Someone might read it.
Heh... maybe some kids will learn just a little bit of discretion.
It seems to me that when we were kids even terminally good kids like I was understood the concept of *sneaking*.
:)
If the authorities are monitoring something, it's an opportunity to mock them.
I was going to go with the monitoring of prison inmates and this bit from My Dinner with Andre.
"I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing they've built, they've built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia, where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made, or to even see it as a prison."
A bit depressing.
Great. We Are Now Paying For Middle-Aged Bureaucrats To Search the Web For High-School Girls Flashing Their Boobs, and It Is Their Job Description.
Hard Day at the Office, Dear?
Get them used to it early and they'll think it's perfectly natural.
So it's good they caught a kid who was suicidal, right?
What happened to this "It takes a village," or community counts stuff?
Smaller schools within smaller areas put schools teachers and officials and parents (<-- the secret code word) in better touch with the kids.
When my youngest daughter decided she and her friends wanted to talk about stuff they did not want me to see, they set up a private social spot online.
I bought spyware.
Ms. Junior Cheerleader, We Have Found Some Photos You Took of Yourself That Are Not Within School Guidelines. I'm Afraid You're Going to Have to Go the Principal's Office For a Closed-Door Meeting.
The upside is we'll all be on firmer ground complaining about all the warning signs that were missed next time the trenchcoat mafia shoots up a high school.
Let's face it fellow boomers, we're getting out just in time. We doused the place with gasoline, left some matches on the table, and just walked out the door. Lets get in the van and get out of here.
Think they would have picked up on Trayvon Martin's behavioral cues?
Hahahahaha.
These are the same people who have trouble with the NSA monitoring? Or not?
What is the risk / beneft ration of eyeballing everyone in "public."
Won't be long before the kids discover the privacy settings on Facebook.
Happy for the family whose kid had an intervention ...
But we are back to Parenting 101 here.
Pay someone to pay attention to your kids friends and behaviors.
Who monitors the monitors posts?
Some kids will be and "there will be blood."
The monitor traditionally warns of crocodiles.
Think they would have picked up on Trayvon Martin's behavioral cues?
If Trayvon could have been Obama, and presuming that he, young Obama, wouldn't have been exempted from this kind of monitoring program; we would know more about the president of United States today.
Johnny, We Can Tell From Your Emails That You Have Been Sleeping With Your Math Teacher. Do You Have Any Photos That You Haven't Posted to Substantiate This Allegation?
Program Success Rate:
Girls Showing Boobs: 97%
Violent Offenders: 3%
Or, as The Program Would Say: a 100% Success Rate!
Don't blame me, fellow boomer, I been vahlated by non-stop Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie re-runs.
Wouldn't be funny if the school kids flood the school monitors with Miley Cyrus traffic. And the school monitors, in turn, raise child porn red flags.
Deborah, Can you still do long division?
23/158 = ?
bagoh20 said...
Let's face it fellow boomers, we're getting out just in time. We doused the place with gasoline, left some matches on the table, and just walked out the door. Lets get in the van and get out of here.
What's this we, kemo sabe?
The boomers like Barry Soetero and Michelle Robinson did this.
Not the majority, like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
I think I get your point, but I'll wager there's plenty our age who cannot do long division. Or that even 6x9 would flummox them.
That's really not long division.
Your children are not your own, they are property of the state. Anyone care to even defend that? It's been going on for decades. It's beyond institutionalized now.
There have always been enough conservatives to win any election, and thus prevent the rot that we have. We just didn't show up, and we still don't.
Make no mistake - this is our collective fault. We had the power, but failed. First we were stupid, then when we wised up, we were lazy and trusting. The only salvation is you don't live forever, and your mistakes become your kids' problems.
One of the nice things about having Sippican Cottage around was every now and then he'd go off on a tear about the hard times of the past and how things today are much, much better than they used to be, overall.
He was always right about that, too.
A lot of things are not better now. One thing which I've noticed a lot lately when traveling to places where I spent time long ago is that freedom to enjoy the land has really been restricted. In places from Hawaii to Pennsylvania, when I tried to visit old favorite spots, nearly all had been fenced off and posted preventing anyone from enjoying what were amazing places once open to all who wanted to enjoy them. Some was due to government, some private, but nearly all were obviously restricted to prevent lawyers from screwing the owners over for allowing people to enjoy them. One thing that clearly is worse than before is the number of lawyers and the extent of their greed.
I see about 10 ads per day on TV for lawyers soliciting to extract money from people who offered medical help or employment to people which they wanted and chose, but which ended up not working out. The result is just less of those opportunities for people, including careers and cures they badly need and deserve.
The Only Sure Cure For Tomorrow is Death. Today's Happy Thought For the Future.
The average person--in our culture--is almost certainly dumber and shallower than he was a couple of hundred years ago.
Pants, when you read letters from Civil War soldiers it is corroboration of what you say.
Classical education.
Makes a difference.
Post a Comment