Abandoning Children’s Privacy
Written by redqueeninla in Education
The time has come for my youngster to confront immanent militaristic ipad “deployment” and all this implies for privacy and responsibility, coercion and choice, for mother and for child.
LAUSD’s district IT spokesman concedes upon questioning, that privacy concerns revert almost immediately to a matter of trust by the parent of the district.
But with regard specifically to this ipad “rollout”, what about the entire program could possibly inspire confidence or trust? A short, incomplete list of taxpayer treachery would include:
- Cost; the program’s predicted cost rises at an alarming rate – is it $30M? $50M? $1B? more? [here's a fun Common Core algebra II problem for our HS juniors: if the ipad program estimated cost increases at a rate of approx. $150M/month, given A=Pe^(kt), when will LAUSD be bankrupt?]
- Disingenuous assurances to the Bond Oversight Committee, whose citizen’s influence has been systematically marginalized; ipads were conceded as infrastructure because it was promised they would never leave school premises rendering them ‘one of the fixtures’, yet immediately following their appropriation through construction bond monies, the ipads were sent home
