Schools spying on students?
Bob Kellogg
OneNewsNow
1/19/2012
A number of schools throughout the United States are beginning to bypass parental permission and use electronic devices to monitor students as a way to combat obesity. But some critics are wondering how far officials will take the effort.
School officials in Bay Shore, Long Island (New York) recently purchased eight "Polar Active" monitoring devices to electronically monitor students. Schools in St. Louis and South Orange, New Jersey, are doing likewise. Bay Shore superintendent Peter Dion says the devices inform or motivate students by giving them immediate feedback about their fitness.
But John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, says schools "attaching devices to people, tracking their vital signs, and watching … what they eat and what they're doing, which is really none of anybody's business," is comparable to an electronic concentration camp. "Even with parental approval on this, I think this is still a very dangerous way to go." the rest
posted by Pat Dague @ 10:37 AM
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According to the latest study obesity may be connected to the bad relationship that mothers have with their toddlers. What I think is concerning is the fact that some parents really neglect their children in a way that they don't spend as much time with them as they could and this can finally lead to obesity or even more serious emotional problems. Today's parents simply don't realize that children need to interact and cooperate with others in order to develop healthy relationships later in life. That's why I visited as many baby-centers in Toronto as possible when my children were born. I discovered a number of funny ways to build a strong relationship and I always try to spend as much of my free time as possible with them to avoid similar problems in their adolescence. And I am sure this can hardly be solved by some electronic devices.
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