Sororities- More than just a letter on a sweatshirt

Sororities

In Glendale School District in Southern California, they are spending 40,500 dollars to monitor students on multiple social media platforms. This is the districts response to bullying on social media and how they plan to stop it. The district says that "monitoring is for student safety". Many people are saying that this is an infringement of privacy because no one, including the principals, has made a public statement addressing the monitoring.

The entire thing wouldn't be wrong if they just let the students know that they were monitoring. That would give them the chance to turn their accounts on private, and even think before they speak. If people knew that the school was watching everything they put on the internet, they would behave differently. Spying on them is wrong and having daily reports of what students choose to say sent to administration is unconstitutional. On the other hand, if you don't want your page or account to be public, make it private.

Anyone could look at anything on the 

internet and people need to be aware of that. This does not justify the fact that they are snooping on their students, but people just need to realize that if you are a public page, anyone could be reading your posts. This topic is very controversial. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you can read many peoples opinions in the comment section. 

If this happened at San Ramon, I think people would be infuriated. Not at the fact that we would be monitored, just the fact that no one told us. Also, I know me and my friends tend to joke around with each other on twitter and instagram. I think its hard for a computer generated program and people working for a  company to differentiate between posts that are posing threats and posts that aren't.  Its hard to tell over the internet what people really mean, but people have the right to say whatever they want. I could see this happening at San Ramon but i've never seen something on social media that would've needed the administration involved. I'm careful about what I post on the internet so it really wouldn't be a problem for me, but for other people it might actually be a good thing for them to realize that what they say is public and what is said on the internet will be there forever.