Eavesdropping Parents for Online Schooling?

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I’d like to know what is being taught in a class full of talkative minors that is “Confidential Information”? Because the kids are going to blab it to someone the minute they leave the room.

Do the kids sign a non-disclosure agreement before they walk into class? If not, this is baloney.
 
Kind of would like to see the waiver. My first impression admittedly is that someone is trying to manage the FERPA hassles of online learning and doing it badly.
 
I read where they have changed it to allowing parents to watch, but not record, which is reasonable due to the various legal restrictions and school regulations about students and other people taking photos and recordings of other students in school. I’m guessing what they don’t want to happen is that Patsy Parent decides she doesn’t like the way Tina Teacher is teaching something, records it, and sends it viral on Twitter. I can understand the concern, but parents have a right to see and hear what’s going on in their kid’s class.
 
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I understand recording opens up a mess of different legal stuff. I believe the whole things is about not wanting parents to hear the radical left agenda…
 
So it’s okay if their kids are hearing it every day in school when there’s no COVID going on but it only became an issue when the classes are broadcast into students’ homes?

I doubt a school would want to give the impression that they’ve been teaching the kids radical stuff in school all along…
 
I’m not sure most parents realize what is being taught at school everyday. The school knows that. So now the parents can listen and there is a problem.
 
I’m betting most of what gets taught at school every day is neutral. The poorly worded letter that was sent to the parents now has them all thinking their kids are being taught all kinds of horrible things, though.
Communications fail.
 
At least in kindergarten and first grade, we parents received regular updates on what the kids were learning, and parents were always welcome in the classroom or at lunch. I never had the impression that the school was trying to sneakily indoctrinate my kid. Maybe this is more of a concern at upper grades, but by then I hope our kids are morally somewhat well-formed.
 
My children’s classes and now my grandchildren’s classes have always allowed any parent…and grandparent to come and watch class. Of course a teenager would be horrified if their parent came to their class but this open policy has always existed in Wyoming and Colorado.

I agree, this was probably trying to address legal issues and may have been poorly worded.
 
“Give us your kids”
“Don’t listen to what we tell them”
“Pay us money”
——The government.
 
This is why I plan to homeschool or get a private family tutor for my child… if I’m able by the time he starts school six years down the road. I have a feeling we’re a stone throw away from walking around microchipped and lacking any freedom regarding speech, education, etc.

For now… if you don’t want your kids fed potential garbage, don’t put them in a system spawned from a political landfill. These parents who are complaining about it weren’t there physically at the school every day and now all the sudden they want to hear what their teachers are saying? Ignorance really is bliss.
 
I would hope the video presentations aren’t allowing the kids to each be seeing the other kids and the insides of kids’ homes. I wouldn’t be comfortable with that at all. I was thinking of the presentation as being the kids watching the teacher with the videos of themselves turned off. Audio or chat box could be used to ask a question but there is no reason why Student A and his mom should be seeing Student B and her mom, or their respective other family members, houses etc.

I know that Zoom has an option for the program leader to turn off everybody’s video but their own.
 
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TepeyacTraveler said:
Absolutely trying to indoctrinate socialism into the poor children.
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I believe the whole things is about not wanting parents to hear the radical left agenda…
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Highly…highly doubtful, honestly I’d say preposterous
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I’m betting most of what gets taught at school every day is neutral.
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^^^This
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but not record, which is reasonable due to the various legal restrictions and school regulations about students and other people taking photos and recordings of other students in school.
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^^^and this.

That whole article read like someone who already had/has an agenda and is drinking some propaganda “kool-aid” of their own.
 
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From what I have read many people are saying it’s the opposite. Teachers are often pushing to have everyone’s camera on so they can ensure all the students are physically present and paying attention. Many parents have expressed exactly the concerns you have though. But schools are worried that if they don’t enforce video then kids will just turn zoom on and then sit playing on their switch.
 
I am long past having school-age children (or grandchildren, for that matter), but if I did, and they were doing distance learning, I would not be standing over their shoulders full time. However, you can bet that I would be walking thru the room from time to time to see if anything . . . unusual was going on.

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That whole article read like someone who already had/has an agenda and is drinking some propaganda “kool-aid” of their own.
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You obviously aren’t aware of what they are teaching in many districts, or you simply don’t care.
 
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You obviously aren’t aware of what they are teaching in many districts, or you simply don’t care.
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Really? I could say that of anyone that thinks public schools are institutes of some “left wing conspiracy” indoctrination too. They either have no idea what is being taught in schools, or don’t care to find out and would rather believe something they read on the internet that goes along with their beliefs.
 
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There’s no “conspiracy,” it’s actually daringly transparent with a little bit of homeswork. I would do it for you, but I would wage that you would find nothing wrong with what is being set in curriculums and offered in guidlines.

In any case, if your see absolutely nothing wrong with educators expressing concern that a parent might be listening in on what is being taught… what is there to say? We are on opposite planets, as usual🤷‍♂️
 
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