Highly Disturbing Monitoring by School of Kid's Account

[Anonymous]

This is all really creepy...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would actually really like to hear from a lawyer on this matter.

1) We certainly never were given information on any ramifications of what the schools has access to once a child logs into an account, particularly at school. Shouldn't there be something formal that explains this to parents? Should a parent consent with written permission?
2) What is the legality with this kind of access? We are not talking about just seeing URLs of sites visited, but the actual screen.

Good questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s school - they’re using a school website with school property, are they not? And they’re supposed to be using it ONLY to do school work, right?
What’s the problem here? Are they supposed to let kids waste their classroom time doing frivolous things or maybe cyber bullying other kids? Why wouldn’t you parents be supporting this?? Tell your kids to only use the school WiFi and device for school related work and get on with your lives.

OP is talking about her home computer, at home, using her personal wifi.

OP out of curiosity, is your school using google docs, SIS or blackboard? Or some other program?

I only know of google docs. I am not sure of SIS or blackboard or even what those are. I can ask my kid tomorrow.

I believe my child's as well as the other two friends' accounts of this. The kids expected the teacher to see their screens with the Guardian app, but I think they were all more or less humored that they were able to see their friend's home screen on the teacher's computer. DD said it looks like images that were glitchy. My assumption is that the application itself would capture an image and the student's screen every so often and send it to the monitoring admin when the app is deployed.

Whatever the case is, I feel very uncomfortable and wish the school had explained the extent of their monitoring of home access.

[Anonymous]

This is the first year I have heard my kid mention the Guardian app. Is it new? My child regularly uses my lap top if her chromebook is too slow. I never thought to make sure she is logged out of her google account. It makes sense they have this app, but it does seem a bit much.

[Anonymous]

Was the sick kid’s screen logged in to the mcps site?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you get all the facts straight and not rely on the reports of a single child in the matter.

+1

Pretty sure a lot of this may be inaccurate.

Pretty sure you’re wrong.

Okay, then address it with the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me that MCPS is maintaining recordings of the web surfing going on at home on logged-in MCPS student account when there is no reason to do so, and then I'll get riled up. If a live feed to a teacher is required - Meh.

Seriously! Teachers have far better things to do after hours than monitor what little Larla is doing at home on her account.

Because there is NEVER even one bad seed in the MCPS school system, right?

No, they have an A+ in the hiring dept

[Anonymous]

Before you talk to a lawyer, you might want to talk to an IT person.

For any sort of screen capture/transfer to occur the software has to be installed on the chrome book. It doesn't happen natively through a google account. I could be wrong, but in the little bit of research I did it looks the Chromebook would need to be on the same network as the server doing the data aggregation. This would require the software to be installed on a personal chrome book and some sort of VPN tunnel to be established.

This software is CIPA compliant, but again, it has to be installed to be functional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before you talk to a lawyer, you might want to talk to an IT person.

For any sort of screen capture/transfer to occur the software has to be installed on the chrome book. It doesn't happen natively through a google account. I could be wrong, but in the little bit of research I did it looks the Chromebook would need to be on the same network as the server doing the data aggregation. This would require the software to be installed on a personal chrome book and some sort of VPN tunnel to be established.

This software is CIPA compliant, but again, it has to be installed to be functional.

OP here. What you said makes sense and I had thought the same exact thing. That is why the fact DD saw her sick classmate's home screen surprised me. I normally don't like ruffling feathers with the school so was hoping someone could chime in on what they know about the GoGuardian system, but this is certainly something I will ask the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before you talk to a lawyer, you might want to talk to an IT person.

For any sort of screen capture/transfer to occur the software has to be installed on the chrome book. It doesn't happen natively through a google account. I could be wrong, but in the little bit of research I did it looks the Chromebook would need to be on the same network as the server doing the data aggregation. This would require the software to be installed on a personal chrome book and some sort of VPN tunnel to be established.

This software is CIPA compliant, but again, it has to be installed to be functional.

OP here. What you said makes sense and I had thought the same exact thing. That is why the fact DD saw her sick classmate's home screen surprised me. I normally don't like ruffling feathers with the school so was hoping someone could chime in on what they know about the GoGuardian system, but this is certainly something I will ask the teacher.

You know how you check the 'Agree to Terms and Conditions' box without every reading anything. This is why you want to do that.

[Anonymous]

What are “glitches” of live images?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The solution here is to make sure your child knows not to use their school account for anything other than school purposes, and then log out when they’re done.

+1 sounds like a great learning tool. The same knowledge will be very useful for work situations when they are older. They need to fully understand their online activities will be monitored when the log on somewhere other than home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are “glitches” of live images?

Guessing it's screenshots of what is on a monitor that gets sent periodically.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps this page may offer answers - http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/cybersafety/

[Anonymous]

Off-campus filtering for your school's Chromebooks.

Your student's learning doesn't end in the classroom and neither should your Chromebook's protection. GoGuardian actively filters and monitors student activity both in the classroom and at home.

https://www.goguardian.com/at-home-filtering-allows-complete-content-filtering-for-chromebooks-in-school-or-at-home.html