On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Art Clemons <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're missing something obvious. The company which provided the > pictures definitely had ZERO idea of the identity of the individual in > the webcam photo. From all that I have been able to ascertain thus far, and also according to statements made in a video recorded back in 2009 by the secondary IT employee of the school, it appears as though the school's own IT department handled everything, from activating the surveillance, to capturing the picture, to handing the picture over to the Vice Principal of the school. No outside parties involved. > It appears that after the student was identified, instead of calling the > police or the parents, administrative fears about what the student had > been doing lead to confronting the student and then calling the parents. "Fears" about what the student had been doing? I would not think it was fear that caused the school administration to confront the student before contacting his parents. Perhaps the parents would harbor fears were they to come to the conclusion that their son was doing drugs, as the school VP erroneously charged. The school VP most probably developed an attitude and approach based upon a "caught you red handed" mindset. Let us not forget that there is a little battle of sorts being played out in our schools between students and administrators. Thus the application of that technology on the part of the school as part of their arsenal. The question remains, and has not been addressed by the school system as to why they failed to properly inform students or their parents that such surveillance could take place. The school system has admitted to their error of not providing that information, but never said why it was not done or explained how that important step was overlooked, if that was indeed the case. It is possible that if the school was taking somewhat of an approach to their surveillance that bordered upon being akin to police work, then that could explain why they never notified anyone. In a word, overzealous. I think they exhibited a penchant for zealotry when they confronted the child and showed him a printout of that photo prior to speaking with his parents about what the school perceived to be drug use. That was another huge mistake they made. Once again, turning to technology before they used their brains. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
