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Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

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Re: Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

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> This level of surveillance is “not too over-the-top”, Ingrid said, and she feels her classmates are generally “accepting” of it.

Of course they think that, they’re still kids. Who’s going to protect them from surveillance?

IMO this is way over the top - and it’s conditioning future generations to accept this level of surveillance as adults.

Re: Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

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Unpopular opinion: make private gun ownership illegal instead of forcing kids to be monitored to make sure they're not carrying

Unpopular opinion: basically no one dies by guns in schools so don't even bother with clear backpacks.

Re: Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

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post #2

> This level of surveillance is “not too over-the-top”, Ingrid said, and she feels her classmates are generally “accepting” of it. Of course they think that, they’re still kids. Who’s going to protect them from surveillance? IMO this is way over the top - and it’s conditioning future generations to accept this level of surveillance as adults.

They probably won’t even feel safe without it.

Re: Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

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post #6

Unpopular opinion: make private gun ownership illegal instead of forcing kids to be monitored to make sure they're not carrying

Unpopular opinion: basically no one dies by guns in schools so don't even bother with clear backpacks.

Exactly. Force schools to quantify this risk against others. More kids die cycling to school than by guns.
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