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Glendale Schools Monitor Students' Social Media
The Glendale School District has hired a private company to monitor students’ online messages. Is it early intervention before harm can be done or creepy Big-Brotherism?
By Warren Olney • • 24m ListenKids are bullying other kids on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media. Now the Glendale Unified School District has hired a private company to monitor and analyze the messages students are sending. Does it mean early intervention before real harm can be done? Does it help parents? Or is it a creepy form of Big-Brotherism that will make children less likely to trust the adults in their lives? Also, is today's job action for higher wages keeping customers out of LA's fast-food restaurants? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the White House plays a waiting game for attacking Syria.
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The Glendale Unified School District will pay $40,500 to a company called Geo Listening to check out the public social media posts of 13,000 students at eight schools. It's all about cyber-bullying on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and the safety of students. It was prompted by the suicide of a student last year.
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