Schools should not be monitoring students’ online activity. It is an invasion of the student’s privacy and violates their right of speech, and it reduces trust between the student and the teacher. Additionally, it is not the job of the teacher to keep track of what the student is doing online, but it is the job of the parent. If the child is not following the rules created by the parents, it is the parent’s job to enforce the rules, not the teacher. When schools monitor students’ online activity, they have access to all sorts of private information. In fact, multiple states are against this belief, and some have even passed laws prohibiting schools from acquiring students’ passwords. As Illinois Public Act 098-0129 states, “It is unlawful for a post-secondary school to request or require a student or his or her parent or guardian to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student's account or profile on a social networking …show more content…
Teachers should not be monitoring the students because their job is to teach, not to micromanage the students. When there is a problem, they should refer to the parents to fix the problem. It is the parent's job to raise the children in the right way, not the teacher’s job. However, schools can monitor students when the students are using school-issued devices. This is fair because the devices belong to the school, and they (the school) have the entire right to monitor them. As Maria Shepard, a teacher at Princeton Day in New Jersey has said, “If the device is not school-owned and is not being used on the school campus, schools should not monitor a student’s online activity. If an issue arises, the student’s parents could manage it.” If the device does not belong to the school, neither the school nor the teachers should monitor it; It should be left for the parents to take care
The expansion of the Internet infrastructure across the world, has brought an increased audience. Which has provided expanded markets for businesses and exploited new opportunities. There are virtually countless social sites and media used by individuals to access and share experiences , content, insights, and perspectives. Parents today tend to believe they should spy on their kids online activity. I argue parents should respect the privacy of a child's social life and his/her internet activity.
There are, after-all, ways to be an effective, inspiring, and supporting parent without spying on the child’s every online
Schools should not be able to restrict or regulate what students say online for the following reasons. Students have the right to express themselves because of the freedom of speech stated in the first amendment , restricting what students can say online won't stop bullying, and majority of the students and teachers are not affected by cyberbullying at all.
Ideally schools in the United States are considered by both parents and students alike to be “safe-havens” where parents can trust their children to learn and remain safe during the day and where students can feel safe in a well-maintained learning environment. However within this fully regulated government service, there are often debates over proper classroom environments, teaching tactics, and privacy issues. Today the main privacy issue in public schools is where to draw the line between keeping the school safe and maintaining the privacy of the students (Boomer par. 19).
I agree with Coben when he says that he is okay with the monitoring of your teenagers use of the internet. I especially agreed when he said “Trust is one thing, but surrendering parental responsibility to a machine that allows the entire world access to your home borders on negligence.” It’s true you can’t just let your teen roam on the internet with no boundaries. The internet is a dangerous place and your child would not go through life unharmed by it if you let them handle it them it alone. Teenagers make mistakes and it’s parents’ jobs to fix them, prevent them, or teach them the correct ways. If you don’t monitor your teenager with spyware they will make a mistake and get hurt. Coben is only trying to persuade parents to do the right thing in the article so why don’t more people listen.
Communication is the strongest force of power there is, In an “age-old battle” between teens and parents there needs to be trust and conversation when online. Danah Boyd, in Let Kids Run wild Online, repeatedly confronts the issue of technology controlling the life of teenagers. While although parents have the greatest intentions, their memo may come off as meddling when they continue to monitor/ track their child's every move on social media. Benefits in giving your child freedom with certain restrictions can not only conclude in stronger bonds but result in less risks into potential dangers online.
Question #1: Two non-Hollywood films we screened in class that help demonstrate the conventions of the melodrama film genre are Cleo from 5-7, Agnes Varda (1962) and My Left Foot by Jim Sheridan (1989). These two films demonstrate the influence of melodrama by playing into the many traditional conventions we see as classic Hollywood melodrama. This genre has spread and is essential worldwide, as one of these films is French, and the other is Irish. Cleo from 5-7 revolves around Cleo, played by Corinne Marchand. The film follows her day of fear, consisting of her avoidance of the doctor thinking she may be dying from cancer.
Has your privacy ever been so invaded, you feel like your life is at risk? Do you even know if your life is at risk? People are being watched everyday and do not even know it. In the article, “How Private Is Your Private Life?,” by Andrea Rock, the author believes that people’s privacy is at risk. Similarly, in the article “Steering Social Media,” written by David Raths, the author discusses the issue with teenagers putting their private information on social media websites. Raths’s article also discusses how schools put information online to help students. Teenagers put too much information on social media, schools help protect students’ privacy online, and people’s privacy is at risk.
The Internet is like a “safe place” for teens these days. Teens are consistently doing things on the internet, most of which, they don’t want their parents seeing. The Internet can be dangerous and there are many hazards to it, however teens have a right to their privacy. In Harlan Coben’s article, “The Undercover Parent”, he tells you that it is a good idea for parents to put spyware on their teen’s device. In my opinion, I think that spying on your teen’s Internet use is a vast invasion of privacy.
In today's world, schools need to decide if they can control what students say online. Some people think students should be able to say whatever they want online. But it's important to think about how this might affect others. Giving schools the power to set rules for online speech isn't about taking away freedom. It's about making sure everyone feels safe and respected while learning.
Firstly, tracking a kid's private information results in a bad relationship between the kid and the parent. The text "Should Parents Snoop on your Kids Online" states, "Furthermore, Knorr says parents need to recognize that kids "believe that their phones are sacred
From this perspective, if schools give teens more privacy the student’s will be able to learn more on their own. An article called “School District 's Webcam Surveillance Focus of Suit” by Martha Moore a USA Today publisher on school issues, analyzes how a high school girl was hanging out with her friends and noticed a glowing green light on her computer, which means that the webcam is on either taking pictures or a video. The School District has admitted theft-tracking software which means it takes pictures of the people to know where the computer is at and who has it (Moore 1).This is something that schools shouldn 't be doing no student should be getting pictures of them taken without them knowing. This is going on in and out of the school which takes privacy away from the student in school and out of school and won 't make the students feel right using the laptops to do the work. Students and parents signed a policy acknowledging the school could monitor the laptop 's ' contents and Internet usage. “The policy doesn 't mention the school 's ability to use the webcams, theft-tracking devices that were supposed to be turned on if laptops were reported missing or stolen “(Moore 1). The high school was not even following their own rules and invaded the students’ privacy. This helps to show that teens do need more privacy because schools
These individuals feel that it is an invasion of the teenagers’ right to privacy and the development of their trustworthiness. Kay Mathieson states “only by giving children privacy will they come to see their thoughts as something that belongs to them – to which they have an exclusive right.” In the United States and according to the law, monitoring the internet usage of a minor does not break any laws and is a moral obligation of the parent. Trustworthiness is an important development of a child to learn in order to develop genuine relationships with others in the lifetime. “Not only does monitoring have the great potential to undermine the trust of the child in the parent, and thus to undermine trust in others more generally, it also has the potential to undermine the capacity of the child to be worth of trust” (Mathieson). If the parent has not already had conversations with the teenager about monitoring internet usage and the parent is not telling the child about the monitoring, there is already an issue with the development of trustworthiness in the teenager. There was already a failure of development of this skill before the internet or internet monitoring was introduced.
The internet content that we create as Americans are not private. Nothing on the internet is private, once it is given to the digital world you can’t get it back. The question is to what extent can the federal and local government have the duty to monitor internet content? This is a very sensitive question to the people of the United States because of what happened years ago with Edward Snowden. From the knowledge that Mr. Snowden provided for us, we have come to realize that the government has already been watching us without our permission for several years. In my opinion, the government can look all they want, I just believe they shouldn’t say anything about what we do as citizens if it's not illegal.
Not many Colleges check up on their students through Facebook, but Oxford University is an expert at doing just that. Any picture or comment pertaining to illegal activities will lead to a student being charged with a fine. Since I am about to head off to college soon, I would disapprove of this invasion of privacy. Nonetheless, other colleges may soon pick up this way to spy on their students.