Topic > The Danger of Cyberbullying and…

In most states, some schools provide some schools with unrestricted authority to monitor students' online activity whenever the student uses that electronic device. This places no limits on schools and allows schools to use webcams to observe students at all times. That means crossing a lot of privacy lines like, watching them at home, what if they're getting dressed? The entire school system could see it through the webcam, or if they were at the mall on their cell phones and the school could monitor their every move. It's a violation of privacy that goes beyond the confines of the school grounds. Some of these schools are allowed to do this even when there is no suspicion of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can be a dangerous thing, but allowing schools to monitor your child's every move can also become a dangerous thing, allowing students to have no privacy at all. For example, “in July 2014, the Jackson County, North Carolina school district announced that it would pay a private company, Social Sentinel, $9,500 for one year to monitor the social media posts of all students of one of his high schools, in order to discover cyberbullying and other threats. The school district's position is that when dealing with these types of threats, students “have no expectation of privacy” (Suski 68). Allow the school district to discover the