Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
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Check this one for a good belly laugh:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/we-are-hopelessly-hooked/
"In one recent survey, female students at Baylor University reported using their cell phones an average of ten hours a day. Three quarters of eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-olds say that they reach for their phones immediately upon waking up in the morning. Once out of bed, we check our phones 221 times a day—an average of every 4.3 minutes—according to a UK study. This number actually may be too low, since people tend to underestimate their own mobile usage. In a 2015 Gallup survey, 61 percent of people said they checked their phones less frequently than others they knew."
Carry on
Peace
It is illegal for anyone to record anyone video or audio in Washington State without all parties permission
So on that note the abusive student is not recorded either. And yet there are many laws and ways a student can file lawsuits, demands or complaints on said Teacher and they can be removed. Yet I have evidence where students have threatened, sexted or acted aggressively towards students and/or Teachers and yet remain in schools
Heard about the girls who put peppers in a Teacher's soda as a form or retribution? I would love to see that on YouTube it would make their criminal prosecution for assault that much easier.
- Peace out
I'd even be for no computer use until high school - require kids to write papers using pens and pencils instead of the computer. I am 100% sure this would create some brain connections that kids don't get when working on computers alone.
While true in most cases for audio, video is under a set of vastly different rules. There's also the argument of what is the definition of assumed privacy is. Public places ,including public schools, there is NOT an automatic expectation of assumed privacy, it's just the opposite.
There are some exceptions, restrooms do, some classrooms might, but generally a student is free to video record a teacher with audio and video, but they should not record other students without their permission.
Peace