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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
No doubt this program is really creepy, but I don't think there are a disproportionate number of pedophiles working in schools really. If anything, I think the school system was probably kind of naive about the potential for abuse and thought they have protection in place in terms of records and whatever about how it was used.
And honestly, there's probably not too much that the average creep couldn't find out by looking at kids' facebook and myspace stuff, if the media is to be believed. Not that it justifies the school looking at the kids, but just that I don't think that creepiness or pedophilia was the driving force between setting the program up, if only because non-creeps signed off on the program and real creeps probably were aware of their more limitless, off-work options for creeping.
In hindsight, it would have been a whole lot better to try to go with some kind of GPS tracker on the laptop that couldn't be turned off, if that's what they were trying to do.
I don't know why I thought you were a lawyer, but I did.
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I agree with this. I don't think there are necessarily more pedophiles in schools, just that a tool like this plays right into the hands of someone who might be interested in it for that purpose. But overall I just find this whole story to be creepy because of the naivete (or stupidity) of the administrators who would allow this software in the first place, not assuming that it could be used in all-the-wrong-ways. I feel that in their positions, they need to be thinking about cause and effect of their actions, and when it comes to children (even those "wild" teenagers), an abundance of caution should be taken to protect them. Then there's the legal issues I would think the district lawyers would be concerned about opening themselves up to.
Though I am not a lawyer, I do work in PR and work quite a bit in difficult situations...and I work frequently with lawyers
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