In the United States high schools dealing with student’s privacy are becoming more of a huge problem and more students are feeling that schools are validating their privacy rights. In recent discussions of teen privacy in school, is whether if schools go overboard sometimes and feel they can search the student’s because they are using school property or are on school property. Some people feel that students do need more privacy from their schools because they need their privacy just like everyone else, and with this more reasonability they will have to get them ready when they leave school. On the other hand, some think that by giving more privacy to the student’s more poor decisions would come out of it than strong ones. Students that have …show more content…
From this perspective, if schools give teens more privacy the student’s will be able to learn more on their own. An article called “School District 's Webcam Surveillance Focus of Suit” by Martha Moore a USA Today publisher on school issues, analyzes how a high school girl was hanging out with her friends and noticed a glowing green light on her computer, which means that the webcam is on either taking pictures or a video. The School District has admitted theft-tracking software which means it takes pictures of the people to know where the computer is at and who has it (Moore 1).This is something that schools shouldn 't be doing no student should be getting pictures of them taken without them knowing. This is going on in and out of the school which takes privacy away from the student in school and out of school and won 't make the students feel right using the laptops to do the work. Students and parents signed a policy acknowledging the school could monitor the laptop 's ' contents and Internet usage. “The policy doesn 't mention the school 's ability to use the webcams, theft-tracking devices that were supposed to be turned on if laptops were reported missing or stolen “(Moore 1). The high school was not even following their own rules and invaded the students’ privacy. This helps to show that teens do need more privacy because schools …show more content…
The article was talking about how schools can just go into the student’s phones if they just feel that the student is doing something careless like bullying or might have something to do with drugs. (Keilman 1). Keilman writes what a school spokesman said "That 's perfectly within our rights within the school," he said. "If schools have credible evidence that cellphones are being used in some kind of trafficking...we have every right to take the phones (Keilman)." This doesn 't seem right how will school have credible evidence that a student is using their phone for some kind of trafficking without breaking the student 's privacy rights. The school would either guess and then going through their phone to get the information or to spy on the student. Plus Students like to play jokes on each other because that’s just how teen’s friendships, work and schools might think those jokes are real and blame the student’s for something they never did. Students have their own code when they are texting and some use words but make them have a different meaning than what the word really means (Keilman 1). This should make schools try not to be in a fair amount of the students privacy
Grabber- We are all privileged to live in a free nation, where we can do what we desire. But, what if one day you were told that your school can monitor your every action on the interweb and can punish you for your online activities on and off campus? Well, certainly many students would protest without hesitating, for that they would no longer have privacy.
In conclusion, it is important that parents give their freedom to make sure kids learn to be independent and now days most teens spend a lot of their time in the internet so by parents not letting them have their privacy there, they are taking over all their lives without even giving them a chance to “explored their identity and the world” like Boyd mention. Parents, need to realize that by over protecting their kids is like sending them to war without weapons because they will not know how to confront the world and worst of all they will not know they things they are capable of doing by themselves.
Current advancements in technology has given the government more tools for surveillance and thus leads to growing concerns for privacy. The two main categories of surveillance technologies are the ones that allow the government to gather information where previously unavailable or harder to obtain, and the ones that allow the government to process public information more quickly and efficiently (Simmons, 2007). The first category includes technologies like eavesdropping devices and hidden cameras. These are clear offenders of privacy because they are capable of gathering information while being largely unnoticed. The second category would include technologies that are used in a public space, like cameras in a public park. While these devices
Ideally schools in the United States are considered by both parents and students alike to be “safe-havens” where parents can trust their children to learn and remain safe during the day and where students can feel safe in a well-maintained learning environment. However within this fully regulated government service, there are often debates over proper classroom environments, teaching tactics, and privacy issues. Today the main privacy issue in public schools is where to draw the line between keeping the school safe and maintaining the privacy of the students (Boomer par. 19). Searches and seizures in schools are not recent issues; however they are becoming more public now than in recent years.
After the horrific incident on September 9, 2001, the Patriot Act was passed to help “reduce” terrorist attacks, but they have only restricted us from our rights and feeling free. Regardless of whether we have anything to hide, we deserve to feel comfortable in our own homes. They can even hack into our TVs and cameras! This is unacceptable! We have been dealing with the violation of our privacy due the Patriot Act, but this act led to the abuse of governments’ power, violation of our natural rights, and the government has been going through our texts, internet history, social media, which is breaching into the laws of the constitution.
While not always seen, overall, teenagers get far less privacy than adults do. Between schools checking through the belongings of their students without solid evidence to allow it, or parents monitoring the activity of their children online, teenagers today are subject to much of their privacy being taken away. It is true that this can sometimes be helpful in busting drug dealers or keeping teenagers from getting involved with bad habits online. However, it can also have an adverse effect, ruining the relationship between a parent and his or her child, or other relationships throughout the rest of the teenager’s life. Teenagers should be allowed more privacy, if not as much as adults have, as it will keep them less fearful, as well as help to keep their interpersonal relationships strong and their emotions in a good state.
---. Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Colleges and Universities. Washington: U.S. Department of Education, 2007. PDF file.
Privacy is something that should obviously be respected, regardless of age or any other characteristic that isn’t relevant to the topic, but unfortunately it isn’t always respected. Young people are especially affected by people that sometimes overlook the fact privacy is equally as necessary for them. Invasion of student privacy is an issue that can negatively affect young minds. Locker searches, especially when not given notice to students, is an example. I personally believe that locker searches are definitely an invasion of student privacy, even more so when students aren’t informed in advance, and should not be conducted. It’s important not to overlook the fact that young people’s privacy is equally as important as anyone else’s. The fact that they’re young students increases the necessity of student privacy, as our minds can be more vulnerable and fragile. Privacy can enforce feelings of safety and comfort.
The random searches of the students and their things can cause a riff between the student body and the school. A major issue that will divide the school is the “lack of trust students may feel as a result of actions they see as an invasion of privacy” and feel as though they can’t make a connection with their teachers. The searches affect the student’s emotions and could “undermine a school's attempt to build school community, trust and respect”. The searches break the sense of family all schools should have.
I do not agree with parents eavesdropping some private conversation between their child and their child’s friend. It invades the child’s privacy and it would make him/her feel absolutely down about it since he/she can’t be free from his/her parents. Even if the parents tell their children that they have set up the spyware on their computer, they will always find a way to talk to their Internet friends privately. In paragraph 9, Coben stated, ¨Second, everything your child types can already be seen by the world-- teachers, potential employers, friends, neighbors, future dates. Shouldn’t he learn now that the Internet is not a haven of privacy?¨ First of all, this has nothing to do with Spyware. It is a good argument, but it doesn’t have to do with the parents actually. It’s the boy’s fault to type scandalous things on the Internet and it is his decision to do that. He shouldn’t have done that in the first place to avoid getting into trouble. In paragraph 12, Coben wrote, ¨Yes. But text messages and cell phones don’t offer the anonymity and danger of the Internet.¨ I agree that it doesn’t offer the anonymity and danger of the Internet. Nevertheless, he must’ve forgotten that people have a power to cyber bully other people through texts. Above all, the people who have a great desire to upload it on the Internet, could receive the inappropriate cyber bully. Hence, it also shows the danger of being cyber bullied. In paragraph 13,
Even though monitoring student social media could be beneficial, it is an invasion of student privacy. As a start, it is almost as equal as stalking. It can be considered a violation and an intrusion on the students’ lives outside of school. This program monitors at school, but is would monitor at home and everywhere off campus in addition. Next, the program destroys the students’ freedom of speech. They would be punished by the school for things they say and do outside of school. Also, it doesn’t only take what happens on campus throughout the school day, but it gathers information from outside of school as well. The students would always have to watch what they are saying about school related topics. Consequently, in some districts, this
Individual privacy and confidentiality play a role in both research and clinical health care settings. In each instance, standards and expectations put in place by researchers and health care practitioners to follow to protect patients and research participants while interacting with them. The evolving health care system and convergence of research and treatment protocols to create learning health care systems (LHCS) are creating the need to look at patient confidentiality and privacy differently to protect them and their information.
Although the right to privacy has been used to sway the outcome of many U.S court cases, including the famous Supreme Court ruling of Roe vs. Wade, there is still some debate over how the “right to privacy” should be viewed. For example both Judith Jarvis Thompson, and James Rachels agree that the right to privacy is indeed a right that is bestowed upon citizens, however their perception of how one is granted this right is quite different.
I think there is a right to privacy. What privacy means is “the right to be left alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion” (IAPP,1). Every American citizen has the right to privacy whether it be privacy in their homes, the words in their emails, or daily activities. But not only do the American people have the right to privacy from other citizens, we also have the right to privacy from the government. If the government can keep their conversations, actions and secrets under lock and key then Americans can as well. But unfortunately, the Constitution does not explicitly say anything about “privacy” for the American people, it is left for open interpretation in multiple amendments. The main amendment that screams “privacy” is the fourth amendment.
These individuals feel that it is an invasion of the teenagers’ right to privacy and the development of their trustworthiness. Kay Mathieson states “only by giving children privacy will they come to see their thoughts as something that belongs to them – to which they have an exclusive right.” In the United States and according to the law, monitoring the internet usage of a minor does not break any laws and is a moral obligation of the parent. Trustworthiness is an important development of a child to learn in order to develop genuine relationships with others in the lifetime. “Not only does monitoring have the great potential to undermine the trust of the child in the parent, and thus to undermine trust in others more generally, it also has the potential to undermine the capacity of the child to be worth of trust” (Mathieson). If the parent has not already had conversations with the teenager about monitoring internet usage and the parent is not telling the child about the monitoring, there is already an issue with the development of trustworthiness in the teenager. There was already a failure of development of this skill before the internet or internet monitoring was introduced.