So “educators” have been turned into “social police” regarding what students do off campus, on their own time, in the public realm.
Some of them can say the act is necessary vis-a-vis “cyber bullying”. Well, if “cyber bulling” is a “crime” then any investigation and adjudication of it belongs with law enforcement, prosecutors and courts, not “educators” and their schools. And, as such, it would require law enforcement to show cause with a judge, to obtain a subpoena to get access to a students personal “social” digital accounts.
Notice also the educators did not and do not object to becoming a law enforcement arm of the state, in matters that take place outside of the school.
Whatever happened to parents teaching their children the wise old saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”, and adding the instruction that other kids that do mean things are to be ignored, not worried about. They, the bullys, are the lesser beings. No. Modern parents allow their kids to get too involved in the virtual world and to take too seriously the quickly passing social phenomena of their teen years.
That’s what happens when you allow your children to bond to the government authorities.
Why are we surprised that cliques form ( protection gangs) and that there is bullying in the schools?
In many ways, institutional schools ( especially huge government schools) resemble prisons. All First Amendment Rights are strictly suppressed. They are marched around to the sound of bells like prisoners. They are told when to eat, rest, and exercise. Their buildings look like prisons. Like prisoners they have no freedom of assembly and their associates are chosen by the government. The outside spaces look like prison exercise yards.
In some ways prisoners have it better. The food is better. They are not segregated by age. The economic and social diversity of prisons is better since prisoners are not assigned by zip code. And....Prisoners are not subjected to NON-stop godless secular indoctrination.