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Michael Byrnes's avatar

These are not school security tools - they are the implements of a police state. It's time to properly train teachers and to give them the classroom autonomy that they once had - they type of freedom that led to students loving learning. Kids hate school now and for valid reasons - it's not interesting! Learning is fun - what they are doing is not.

George M's avatar

Shades of Orwell's *1984* and the British1960s TV drama, *The Prisoner*, starring Patrick McGoohan. As a kidnapped former intelligence agent, he was taken to a secret seaside resort, given a number to replace his name, hounded for "information," surrounded with people he couldn't trust and foiled when he (often) tried to escape. I read it as a warning against a totalitarian threat. The climactic episode featured the captive hero's defiant question to the main computer: "Why?"--which destroyed it and the state.

AndyO's avatar

US Department of Pre-Crime in Education. Let's see how long it takes before monitored eye movement tags someone as 'gay' or heavy petting labels someone a sex pest.

Ken Greenberg's avatar

Love your content but I like articles signed by people with actual names rather than aliases. Don’t think “General Azmundus” is the author’s given name. Tell me this is from a real general. Attach a photo. Thanks.

General Azmundus's avatar

I am not a General.. lol it was a nick name...