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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posting test questions is a serious breach - it compromises exams and increases the costs.

This kind of thing is not unusual for testing companies - I have seen a lot of different instances where social media and message forums for technical certification and professional licensure exams are monitored by the testing people to try and minimize breaches.[/quote]

We don't know if this girl actually posted a full question. The allegation is that she posted something AFTER the test ABOUT one of the questions. She absolutely has a constitutional right to post about a question in some cases, if it doesn't give away the answer. If this is a question of a purported contractual confidentiality agreement between the child and Pearson, I find that very disturbing. [/quote]

[b]Exactly. Free speech certainly extends to this.[/b]

Next up is tracking us all down to silence us against speaking out about Pearson. [/quote]

Err, what?  Free speech extends to posting a question AFTER the test?  Or if you throw the word contract in there, then the student can do anything, constitutionally-speaking?[/quote]

Please pay attention.  Nobody is saying that students have the right to publish actual test questions to help other students cheat.  The point about the contract is separate. You can contractually agree with a private party no say or refrain from saying specific things; this has nothing to do (usually) with the First Amendment.  But it would be incredibly disturbing to me if Pearson was trying to gag students from, say, criticizing the PARCC via a confidentiality agreement. [/quote]

We're arguing about 2 different things here:  can a student tweet a picture of a test question (no, she shouldn't have done that), and can Pearson monitor tweets and social media, looking for this?  [/quote]

On the latter, the answer is yes, of course they can. Last I checked social media and particularly Twitter were the very definition of public domain. Why do you think people should be able to post things to social media without consequence? That's an extremely peculiar way of thinking.

And, schools monitor the social media behavior of their students all the time. See this for a recent example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/01/29/arlington-schools-officials-urge-students-to-keepitclean-on-twitter/

Why do you think it's improper for Pearson to monitor social media? That doesn't make any sense.[/quote]

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