Comments on: That’s WAY Out Of Line

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:19:22 +0000

ROFLOL Good point Mike. Still laughing. I can just imagine me screaming the laptop screaming and both of us having a heart attack. Thanks for making me giggle…you just made my day.

By: Mike A.

Mike A. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:55:22 +0000

Geez Rea! How would you like it if you just got out of the shower and somebody whips open your bathroom window and says GOTYA. This would be about the same as having the laptop camera on.

By: Marica

Marica — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:36:01 +0000

Rea, I DO have aproblem being spied upon, and I don’t lie, steal, and etc. If a grand child shoud bring a computer with web cam enabled by remote, into my home and uses it, then those looking into my home are univited persons. I have nothing to hide, but my front door isn’t open to anyone who decides to just walk in. I mean really, think about, what your reaction be if all of WorldStart bloggers were snooping around in your home via remote web cam, or what if we all showed up on your door step and just walked in and started browsing around.

By: Marica

Marica — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:26:46 +0000

Still doesn’t excuse the school for this kind of thing. If I wanna pick my nose I sure don’t want to have shut down my computer.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:01:21 +0000

This is all over the news in SD also. It might be high school students, Sandy, but that doesn’t mean they are not use to leaving their computers on all day and night. This is the generation of “never turning anything off” age. My opinion of this was like a hard core Peeping Tom. ND home school provides computers for the students but they also tell them if they do not turn them off after class they will be exposing their family to being observed all the time. Why wasn’t this explained to the students that took them home that it would be best to turn them off when not in use. Don’t give high school students too much credit for being anything but teens.

By: Mona

Mona — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:46:16 +0000

I think that the Pa school and all involved should be so held accountable!!!! For once people stand together and say Enough, this stops here!!! What have we become?? A school, doing this. It is a horrid offense to be done by anyone, but by a school ???!!!! I say parents ,stand together and hold them responsible, please!!!

By: Toni Lawrence

Toni Lawrence — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:14:30 +0000

I have to agree with most of you, not only is this creepy but it violates a slew of different rights. If the school district wanted to monitor what the children were doing online they could have loaded the software to stop them from accessing certain sites, but to have a webcam that monitors what they do in their own home is a privacy violation. Since the parents were never told of this use their privacy was also violated – because I’m certain not all those 1800 computers were in a room occupied by only one student – it could be in the kitchen, family room, basement or even in the parent’s room. The motives behind this type of spying were self-serving to someone in the school administration – an not only is voyerism, but could even be classified as pedophilia. Even if they suspected this young man of selling drugs (which would not be limited to selling from his room) there are other ways to bust him – and that does not account for the cameras being activated in the other students rooms. Do they think all 1800 students are selling drugs or doing something illegal? These are teenagers we are talking about, and they do all kinds of things (usually in the privacy of their rooms) that are not for public observation. Throw the book at these jerks – and make them pay some stiff penalties.

By: Rea

Rea — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:26:14 +0000

Hi Steve: Sorry, but I don’t have a problem with being spied on. You see, I have NOTHING to hide. They can tap my phone or anything else they want. I don’t lie, cheat, steal, or do anything I am afraid someone will know about. Kids today are NOT the kids of yesterday. I know that for a fact! They need all the controls they can get from just about everyone. Why do we have controls on OUR OWN computers to control the things OUR OWN kids watch. Seems to me, there is a double standard here. We want controls, but ONLY if they agree with OUR agenda. Our society needs even more controls, including our kids. For example: Look at the stupid use of cell phones while driving. Enough said!

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:13:52 +0000

Well I was going to start on a rant here. BUT I see everything I was going to say has basically already been said by “Stewart says:
February 22, 2010 at 3:42 pm”……so I’ll just say “AMEN TO THAT” & go nite nite!!

By: radioman

radioman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:40:59 +0000

The kids should be disabling them right now in whatever software runs the cams, like Flashplayer in Settings Manager.