Cantu, Aaron. "Scary New Surveillance State Idea: Government Tracking Students from Preschool to Workforce." Alternet. N.p., Jan. 2014. Web. 21 Nov. 2014.
This source discusses the thoughts of the American education system in their efforts to raise the standard of education in the country. Their solution was to monitor every moment of a childs life when they enter into the educational system in order to better determine a trend for the best way to teach children. Although this has great intent, there are many potential problems with surveillance and logging too much of a child's life through this program. This program is known as “P-20” and will have logged every moment from pre-kindergarten until a student enters the work force. It has already been listed that several other agencies besides the Department of Education will have access to this data that the DOE will collect. Many speculate that this data will be used much more than for pure research intent.
Sengupta, Somini. "Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet." The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 Oct. 2013. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.
This source argues the legality of schools monitoring the students social media and other internet outlets and levying punishment on students because of it. It brings up the questions if the school administrations can actually do this or if they are truly overstepping their bounds. Not only are the administrations wrongly punishing students but they are paying outside companies to filter through the students social media to help them find wrongs. Originally those outside companies only had access to certain information on medias such as facebook and twitter but as time goes on, the companies have announced that they will have access to view and evaluated a lot more personal information. Already at the time of the article it was predicted by the end of the year over 3000 schools will have bought into the program. This causes a major issue of how can these programs legally have access to that information as well as can the schools really penalize students based on this information.
Daniels, Kit. "School’s New Spy System Places Children Under Complete Surveillance." Infowars. INFO WARS, 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2014.
This source discusses a new system which is intended to monitor for gunshots in schools and be the response unit for when these shootings would take place in order to get help to the school as fast as possible. It is very interesting how they go about doing it though. The schools will have to have something similar to that of 1984 where everything is monitored including voice interactions. Clearly this is something similar to Big Brother and was proven to be even more similar to that when a man faced trial and was charged based on some of the recording that this system had picked up. The worst part is the system itself is not even fully functional. It has been known to go off with the sound of loud noises rather than gunshots. The ACLU does not approve of this device and monitoring software at all and believes it is a breach in security as well as privacy.
Steeves, Valerie. "Editorial: Surveillance, Children and Childhood." Academia.edu. Academia, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014.
This article in particular talks about how early the children have been montoried in a day and age where technology is becoming more and more depended on. It starts off talking about being monitored all the way back to day care when people can see feeds of you in the day care. It talks about all of the different ways that we as children growing up are kept under a watchful eye by people as we go through the educational system. It says that “ social networking has opened up the child’s world to surveillance on the part of parents,schools, corporations and governments alike.” Our lives, our identity, our relationships are all monitored and taken note of as we are growing up. It talks about the major problems that we face in a day and age where surveillance is used because of disciplinary measures. It talks about the limited freedoms that we have because of the surveillance that we face.
