In that case, the student was off school grounds across from the high school.
Was Morse v. Frederick case law overturned in later cases?
And I could just be completely reading this incorrectly, too.
>In that case, the student was off school grounds across from the high school.
The wikipedia summary is actually:
>the Court held, 5–4, that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from prohibiting or punishing student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use at a school-sanctioned event.[1][2]
So the parts you're failing to mention is that it's a school sanctioned event, and that it's promoting illegal drug use. Based on the examples in the EFF blog post, it's clear that those are not the cases that EFF is objecting to, for instance:
>Surveillance Software Exposed a Bad Joke Made in the Privacy of a Student’s Home
I agree that using school devices can be vaguely construed as being similar to "school-sanctioned event", but it's not the same, for the reasons outlined in EFF's blog post.
Now that my son is in 8th grade, the whole Chromebook phenomenon is something I find gross. Kids don’t read books. The various assessment products are gross and stress inducing, and the tools used for math, especially graphing, make trivial assignments incredibly difficult.
I hate to sound like an old man. But between worse educational products, corporate surveillance tools applied to children and cheap, hard to use devices, I miss books.
I know fellow millenials that use their work computers for personal reasons. And thats some of the stupidest things you can do. Dont use work or school hardware for personal reasons.
I'd also say, if you're running Windows you're also surveilled to hell and back as well. Linux is basically the only platform thats not.
And as to larger surveillance, its pervading everywhere. Work. School. Driving (Flock). Commercial web. "Free" services.
I'm glad I grew up in one of the last generations that wasn't habitually online. I did loads of "troublesome behavior", that never followed me. Now, some thing will be captured with a smartphone and memorialized forever. And that... Alas. (Old man yelling at cloud, I guess?)
When my kids start bringing school-owned hardware home that's getting the same treatment.
And what if he joked about stabbing his girlfriend/boyfriend? Would the school report him to the police? What the police would do in this case?
hn_acker•3h ago
> EFF to Arizona Federal Court: Protect Public School Students from Surveillance and Punishment for Off-Campus Speech