Department of Education Asks Schools to Spy on Children on Facebook and During Lunch

If You See Something Say Something has infiltrated itself into the disaster known as the Department of Education. As American test scores continue to fall with each new federal education initiative, like No Child Gets an Education (No Child Left Behind), the Department of Education asks public schools across America to spy on their students.

Department of Education officials (the indoctrinators) “are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.”

Excuse me, but since when is it the public schools' business what their students do when they aren't in the prison walls? Oh, but we know the public school system doesn't think this way. Remember the Pennsylvania school that issued laptops and then watched (possibly in perversion) students in their bedrooms from the Web cams?

In a letter to schools, the DOE defined harassment:

Harassing conduct may take many forms, including verbal acts and name-calling; graphic and written statements, which may include use of cell phones or the Internet… it does not have to include intent to harm, be directed at a specific target, or involve repeated incidents [but] creates a hostile environment … [which can] limit a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by a school.

So now, rather than work to improve education, the DOE is playing Big Brother school police in hopes of eliminating conflicts in the schools between children that help develop character and relationships that will strengthen children later on in life when they hit the back-stabbing work world. The Department of Education wants school officials to report anyone making fun of another student, no matter who light the offense or risk a lawsuit. Good grief! When are we going to wake up and take back local control of our schools?