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Big Brother? Feds Order Schools to Monitor Kids Facebook Posts & Lunchtime Chatter
The Blaze ^ | 3/16/2011 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 03/16/2011 7:31:43 AM PDT by surfer

Department of Education (DOE) officials “are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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Tipping point?
1 posted on 03/16/2011 7:31:48 AM PDT by surfer
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To: metmom

ping


2 posted on 03/16/2011 7:33:30 AM PDT by tutstar
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To: surfer
"Tipping point?"

Let's hope so.

3 posted on 03/16/2011 7:34:17 AM PDT by ronnyquest (Barack H. Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. What are you going to do about it?)
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To: surfer

Whoa....

training them to accept 100% monitoring and reporting?


4 posted on 03/16/2011 7:34:58 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: surfer

Some teenagers go way over the line on Facebook threatening other kids. It’s no wonder people feel the need to homeschool. Facebook should monitor these threats.


5 posted on 03/16/2011 7:34:58 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: surfer
In Stalinist Russia and Mao's China, you could move ahead by keeping an eye on friends and neighbors and reporting people who misbehaved to the authorities.

We are not the land of the free anymore. And the fact that we sit back and take it, tells me that we are not the home of the brave either.

6 posted on 03/16/2011 7:37:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

How does Facebook monitor such threats without monitoring all communication?


7 posted on 03/16/2011 7:41:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: surfer

Well the schools, teacher, principals are definitely going to be needing more money if we expect them to spy on the kids 24/7. Be prepared for some new funding mandate!


8 posted on 03/16/2011 7:41:14 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Some teenagers go way over the line on Facebook threatening other kids. It’s no wonder people feel the need to homeschool. Facebook should monitor these threats.

Parents should monitor their childrens' Facebook activities.

Not the government.

9 posted on 03/16/2011 7:41:14 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: surfer

birds of the same feather...


10 posted on 03/16/2011 7:42:02 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: surfer

When will the government install TV monitors in every room of your house? Things seem to be heading that way!


11 posted on 03/16/2011 7:44:29 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: ShadowAce

Ping


12 posted on 03/16/2011 7:44:48 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: surfer

Don’t use it

Send your notes with a messenger on a camel

Oh wait


13 posted on 03/16/2011 7:45:30 AM PDT by Flavius (A)
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To: surfer
ARE

YOU

F***ING

KIDDING

ME

Every time I hear about a new initiative, it is always utterly totalitarian, oppressive, jackboot-trampling-face stuff, these days.

Within months, the effort will be underway to monitor and punish incorrect thoughts online for ALL drones (aka citizens).

"...Following the discovery of “harassment,” officials may have to require mandatory training of students and their families"

Hey 'officials': Come to MY house, and I will teach you why you might not want to try to bully ME....so pack a lunch and make sure your policies are paid up.


14 posted on 03/16/2011 7:46:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (NPR is the ACORN of the media world.)
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Kids below the required age for facebook registration lying about their ages to get an account then misusing it?

Who’d have thought that would happen?


15 posted on 03/16/2011 7:48:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: surfer

The schools monitoring kids? WHERE ARE THE PARENTS??????


16 posted on 03/16/2011 7:48:18 AM PDT by lula ("The TRUTH has no agenda" Glenn Beck)
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To: lula

Progressives only want parents to birth children; the libs will take it from there.


17 posted on 03/16/2011 7:52:24 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: surfer

Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools

http://www2.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/jennings.html

Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Making schools safe?


18 posted on 03/16/2011 7:54:29 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: Lazamataz
Is the Plan becoming clearer to you now?

Be prepared because there isn't a single aspect of any federal law, rule, regulation, impact or funding tie that isn't already in the cue for implementation...health care, food “safety, land use, bullying, civil “rights” i.e. gay marriage, etc. etc.

You have only seen a precursor of much much to follow (it's in the works)....

Released lockstep over the next two years and most likely six.

The Big Boo

19 posted on 03/16/2011 7:54:34 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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Kids below the required age for facebook registration lying about their ages to get an account then misusing it?

A whole lot of folks use an alias on Facebook. The only people who know are the person's friends. They need to give it up.

20 posted on 03/16/2011 7:56:08 AM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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