Posted on 02/25/2010 5:18:17 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
The vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission could scarcely contain his scorn.
Before the commission was yet another appeal from a Philadelphia-area family, again seeking a break on unpaid electric and gas bills that by last year were closing in on $30,000.
This family lived in a $986,000 house on the Main Line. The breadwinner, until recently, had earned well more than $100,000 per year. Yet he and his wife were in hock to creditors, ranging from Uncle Sam to their former synagogue - and had regularly been stiffing Peco Energy for five years, breaking payment plan after payment plan
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
“Is there an expectation of privacy on a PUBLIC resource? “
Are you seriously asking that question in regards to someones home? If the school is stupid enough to provide laptops to students they should expect to write every single one of them off.
How about you police your kids better? Or is that too much to ask?
How about a little personal responsibility here? Or has that fallen out of vogue with the RINO's as well?
Yup, they’re deadbeats. But, does that mean they should be spied on by big brother?
The gist of this story, which does not come across in the excerpt, is that non of these unpaid bill problems would have been made into a public spectacle had these people not chosen to exercise their privacy rights in court.
The family in question were warned that they could have all this information come out in public if they went ahead with plans to sue the PA school district for spying into their homes via laptop computer. Should they be blackmailed into silence about the intrusion?
“I give you a government spycam. You bring it into the bathroom with you. Who’s to blame?”
Ahh but you didn’t give me a spycam. Regardless, the govt does not have legal authority without a warrant whatever they ‘give’ me.
“How about a little personal responsibility here?”
Personal responsibility? How the heck does that apply to a govt official illegally monitoring children in their homes?
The only people that want to monitor people in their homes are the communists.
The kids were warned. Heck, the kids in our school District were using them to spy on each other until we shut off the student level access to the iSight.
They KNEW about the iSights as hey were told not to cover them.
Use your brain. It's not just there to keep your ears from touching.
Yep, just like a communist. Enjoy your police state comrade.
I kinda have an issue with peoples background becoming public fodder when the govt is seeking to defend itself.
You might also suggest that illegal monitoring of children in locations where the kids are frequently not dressed can get the school board strung up.
The blame shifting continues. It's the kid's fault for not being more careful. It's the parent's fault for not being more careful.
But it's NOT the fault of the school for activating the webcams when they had no business doing so or reason to do so.
In typical educratthink, the school not only did not do anything wrong, but will not and can not.
He will enjoy the police state, because he's on the police end of it.
Here's a link to a forum more suited for that kind of thinking.....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
How about the school police itself better and mind its own business?
Is that too much to ask?
How astute of you...
Apples and oranges. Not that I think you have the wit to understand it.
I loan you something with strings attached. Now LIBERALS like you are pissed off one of those strings was pulled.
Cry me a river...
The schools only fault is that they handed out these computers for kids to take home.
We will see more and more of these trojan horses given to those who sacrifice their children to the state.
Try being a good parent first. Or is that too much to ask?
(1) The school district requires every student to take a school laptop. They aren't permitted to use any other laptop for their classes.
(2) The students are required to carry their laptops from class to class.
(3) Each student is required to pay an insurance fee for his or her laptop. If he fails to pay the insurance fee, he cannot take the laptop off-campus. However, the insurance fee is waived for lower-income students.
(4) School administrators admitted they never informed students or parents that the school could activate the webcams remotely to look in on the students at home.
My husband works in IT, and he said the IT people at the school should've known they could NEVER do something like this. This security consultant explains more.
Notorious is right, thats not a good label ya know.
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