CAT Tracks for August 24, 2010
STUPID...ON SOMEBODY ELSE'S DIME

Ya know what's wrong with school boards, city councils, and beyond?

They are allowed to pursue their personal agendas when the least bit of common sense would tell them that they are flat-out wrong.

I mean...

If the kids in the school district below are smart - and ALL kids (especially the mischievous ones) have street smarts - they will launch a sexting wave and just dare the teachers and administrators to "inspect" their phones. Then, let the accusations of sexual abuse begin! Poor, poor innocent child...sent a picture of herself trying on her new lingerie to a girlfriend who was thinking of buying the same thing and the dirty old man teacher (or the jealous lesbian teacher) took it away for their own titillation. "I feel like I have been molested..."

The school district will then do without educational supplies for the next ten years while their lawyers fight the case in court.

It's like when a school district (which shall remain nameless) hires a person and hands him a piece of paper to sign that lists his job in all caps as CRISIS CLASSROOM TEACHER...and then spends the next 5 years trying to deny it...even when at "half time", an arbitrator rules in the employee's favor.

If these folks who do these obviously stupid and/or vindictive things had to pay for the lawyers out of their own pockets (instead of out of my pocket and your pocket), they would smarten up in a hurry!


From the KFVS TV Channel 12...


Link to Original Story

Cell phone privacy - Not at this school

By Heartland News

OAK HARBOR, WA - A school district in Washington state wants to clamp down on cyber bullying and sexting. But the district could be running right into a constitutional controversy.

Oak Harbor school district wants to be able to search a student's electronic items like cell phones.

This crackdown could have school administrators looking through anything on the student's phone, like pictures, text messages and videos.

School officials view is as a protective measure, but some parents call it an outright invasion of privacy.

The first reading of the proposal passed the school board unanimously. A final approval could happen by the end of the month.