Student Privacy Issues - No to inBloom
Update: From a Colorado blog about children, School Belongs to the Children, a screenshot of inBloom's promotional video. The accompanying article has some good information that I plan to draw from on what WE in Washington State need to do to stop this. This article from Reuters really does a good job of explaining the issues around student data and privacy. (I had seen this but a reader also alerted me to it; thanks). I keep getting asked, "What to do?" I'll have a list of things you CAN and SHOULD do. Our district can say no to a lot of this. In a nutshell: A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the project amid protests from irate parents. The database, funded mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , is intended to track students from kindergarten t...