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Here we go again. They just want to "protect kids"!
You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.
But I doubt it will.
It absolutely won't. What we will get is a bunch of kids profiled and harassed by an administration that sees "Suspected School Shooter!!! ALERT!! ALERT!!" popping up based on vague suspicions and poorly conceived correlations.
The argument I saw one fascist use on a Facebook thread some years back was "If you were handed a bowl of M&Ms and you were told one of the brown ones was poisoned, how many would you leave in your bowl?" That's the logic behind these algorithmic surveillance programs. Just grab known data points and draw a line through them. And the data points they lean into - age, race, gender, zip code - are what the system can grab rather than what might conceivably inform you of a person's psychological state.
It seems that the data shows that most school shooters are white. I bet this is going to cause a lot of head scratches when the "black box" starts profiling whites.
Schools are surveilling kids. (Full stop)
I think it's important to ask some basic questions to all affected school district superintendents.
I'm sure you an come up with more.
You are acting like you or the kid has any rights here...
Supreme court spoken and those old school rulings in modern context are very concerning
Public schools into the US is like a prison and putting child in there comes with serious risks.
Like getting shanked, then getting in trouble because of the zero tolerance policy (even when the parents brought up the offender before).
Public schooling is there to ensure that by 12th grade every idiot understand their pecking order within US caste system
People love talking about bullying but everyone is denial who the bullies really are... Is kids of the wealthier people who are able to get away with it.
School admin won't fuck with them... Because who wants to deal with the Karen parents so it is easier to let the other kids suffer.
Why fix the actual socio-economic and political issues which lead to school shootings when you can pull a Big Brother with barely functional AI models!
I'm just hittin'em right outta the park, should've worked in Marketing!
Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide.
Ostensibly.
USA and trying anything other than gun control and access to mental health services, name a more iconic duo.
Re the snippet: As a geeky gay guy coming to terms + coming out in the early 2000s, school faculty has always been void of trust, compassion, or safety. Hell, the majority of the motherfuckers I bumped into are vile pieces of bile and shit, that hate their lives and the poor decisions that brought them there, and will happily make an awful experience even worse, by any means possible, and do it with a smile on their face. 20+ years later, they just have more power to be even bigger shitstains.
At least all the fuckers that I encountered will all be dead soon - I will have a lot of graves to dance on.
Or... you know... they could try to do more about bullying?
