At Some Schools Big Brother Is Watching Summary

To what extent should schools monitor students’ online interactions off-campus? The article “At Some Schools, ‘Big Brother’ is Watching”, written by Kelly Wallace contains evidence explaining why it is such a controversial topic. Some states support the district because they argue schools have the right to monitor students, while other states argue that it is disrupting the freedom of speech. Many students in this generation tend to fall into dangers such as bullying, drug use, violence, and suicide due to the fact that they are not properly supervised. Kelly Wallace believes that schools should definitely do more to monitor students off-campus so that they do not get hurt. I agree with Kelly Wallace that schools should be permitted to

So many people in society agree that the online issues students face are very serious. This is a life and death issue so the school needs to get involved because they can greatly help by monitoring exactly what social networks students are on. This way less students will feel like they can torment others outside of school and less students will be put down. Laura, a college student states, “I recently found my 13-year old sister’s Tumblr account with the title ‘Depressed but well dressed’, it immediately made me take action, let my parents know and make sure she got the help she needed” (Wallace). If Laura had not found her sister’s social network account, things could have gone very downhill. Her younger sister could have started to self-harm, get into drugs, or even commit suicide. If Laura had not found the account, no one close to her sister would have found out and helped her get the support she needed. In conclusion, so many schools do not realize how many of their students are facing online issues outside of school and need to take