Dozens of parents, students and educators responded to a Guardian callout asking for perspectives on public schools’ adoption of new digital surveillance technology. Some believe students are already fully adjusted to the experience of intensive school surveillance. “They’re resigned to it,” said Jarrett Dapier, 40, a parent of a middle school student, and a young adult librarian in Skokie, Illinois. When Dapier talks with other teen librarians about the issue of school surveillance, “we’re very alarmed,” he said. But some privacy experts – and students – said they are concerned that surveillance at school might actually be undermining students’ wellbeing.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2019 11:01 UTC