What school surveillance is really for

[sigma7]

A couple of dozen Gig Harbor High School students are demonstrating outside the school today to protest the use of a surveillance camera to catch two girls kissing.

One student reporting the demonstration for the school paper, Amber Critchley, says they are saying the school shouldn't have interfered and that sexual orientation shouldn't matter.

Principal Greg Schellenberg says the protest is a disruption but classes are continuing.

...He says the school does not target gay and lesbian students.

Oh, no chilling effects here at all. Idiots.

In other news, rest in peace, Herbert Kornfeld. The H-Dog lives on.

Comments

[begstodiffer.livejournal.com]

The linear thinking and stupefying lack of insight in our public education system can no longer surprise me. With the (probable) exception of murder, I don't believe there is any authoritarian measure too repressive for some tin-pot dictator of a school administrator out there to attempt. Some of these people actually believe in thought-crime. It's a shame; I've had some incredible teachers who were unnecessarily hemmed in by unimaginative policies.

OTOH, Herbert will be missed. Accounts receevabo fo-evah, yo.

Word.