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Posts about gagggle written by Tim Cushing

Schools have always kept tabs on students using school-issued devices. Prior to the pandemic, this had mostly been limited to filtering software that prevents students from accessing content schools don't approve of. Of course, this has also kept students from accessing content that might be useful to them personally (self-harm prevention, LGBTQ+ content) or scholastically…

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To quote Pink Floyd: Leave them kids alone! That was my reaction to Kansas Reflector editor in chief Sherman Smith’s story about Lawrence High School students who fought — and won — a battle with the district over spyware installed on their devices. I remember my experiences as a student journalist and would have been […] The post Kansas school district deployed spyware. Teen journalists pushed back, but what about the others? appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

LAWRENCE — When Lawrence Public Schools deployed spyware last fall, district officials said it would help them respond to a growing mental health crisis by monitoring students’ correspondence, photos, classwork and files. But student journalists were alarmed by the First Amendment problems inherent with the district’s implementation of the surveillance program, made by Gaggle. As […] The post ‘Unapologetically loud’: How student journalists fought a Kansas district over spyware and won appeared