School spies on kids through student laptops

[ShadowHM]

The thing that really irritates me is that a school system is issuing laptops to students. There are schools in this country that don't have *basic* supplies. Laptops are not a basic supply.

I am with Delc on this one: I am not at all surprised that a 'well-off' school board has the wherewithal to purchase laptops for their students. I know a young lady whose parents are springing for the private high school because the public system where they live is utterly dreadful. And she gets a laptop out of it. Beware of being born poor; there is no exit. :(

The question of privacy is another one altogether. I mourn the loss if it. My children have far lower expectations of privacy than I do. However, as one of them pointed out when I remonstrated with him over the information he allows to be available: there is so much information out there that unless someone REALLY wants to look, you are safe. And if someone is that motivated, then they can find out about you regardless of what you try to keep private.