Happy Cinco de Mayo Wednesday! Do you have plans to celebrate? It’s that time of day again when we publish an open thread. Write away!
This is hilarious! Very brave blogger Mike Stark tried to attend a Sue Lowden fundraiser in Washington, D.C.
Honestly, if Sue Lowden expects doctors to accept chickens for payment, what does she think politicians deserve? My proposal is dung beetles, but that’s just me. I know I’m kinda idiosyncratic… That’s why I brought a coupla Cornish Hens with me to her DC fundraiser today – just in case she held out for livestock.
Well, it turns out my fowl wasn’t good enough for her. I was shown the door.
No duh. The Lower Merion School District is in a lot of trouble, according to a report commissioned by the school district.
Inconsistent policies. Shoddy record-keeping. Misstep after misstep. “Overzealous” use of technology “without any apparent regard for privacy considerations.”
Those were the conclusions a team of attorneys and computer experts reached after a 10-week investigation into how, when, and why the Lower Merion School District turned on the Web cams and software that secretly snapped thousands of photos and screen shots from student’s laptop computers.
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But the report repeatedly faulted employees and administrators in one of the region’s elite public school districts as enamored of their cutting-edge technology even as they were blind to its risks.
The improperly collected images, the report said, “resulted from the district’s failure to implement policies, procedures, and record-keeping requirements, and the overzealous and questionable use of technology by [information services] personnel without any apparent regard for privacy considerations or sufficient consultation with administrators.”
I have no idea what all these adults were thinking. Why did they think they could take pictures of high school students in their bedrooms and not get in trouble? I imagine that the school district will go bankrupt defending itself. I can’t say they don’t deserve it.