NOTICE: Due to Huntsville City School Superintendent Casey Warydynski's Executive Orders, the school district may have read your social media accounts without warning, warrant, or notice. You have no recourse nor protection but to call for the resignation of the Superintendent and the Board of Education who enabled him.
In addition to bashing any media who dares the report the facts (not to be confused with spin), and blaming everything on the black guy, I mean Al Langford, I mean the NSA, one of the memes HCS officials, including the Mayor, cite to justify monitoring some (not to be confused with all) students social media accounts for threats of potential (not to confused with real) violence is to evoke the memory of Sandy Hook, and other mass shootings.
There was a recent opinionated, and irresponsible, article in "The Huntsville Times" about a program the HCS has implemented to help keep the schools safe. We have only to look at national tragedies such as Columbine, Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech to see how badly things can go...or even locally at Madison City Schools or UAH.
Like most every school system across America, the HCS has instituted security procedures to try to intervene before there is a tragedy. Unlike the picture painted by The Huntsville Times, we do not have a secret group that trolls the social networks across the world for possible threats. Instead, we follow best-practice protocols used by others.
But, but you do have an off the books spying program that trolls the social networks of some students for possible threats. We don't know if you follow best-practice protocols used by others, because some members of the BOE were kept in the dark about this program. The public would still be kept in the dark if someone hadn't leaked it to Al.com.
Both Blair and McCaulley voiced concerns about the information provided to AL.com and the subsequent media attention the program is receiving.So now they are worried about FERPA? Excuse me while I ROTFLMBO.
Blair said students intending to do harm at school might be less likely to put information about their intentions online if they know the district is watching.
"This kind of stuff puts kids in danger," Blair said.
McCaulley said that whoever leaked the security presentation to the media may have broken Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) laws because the presentation included pictures of students.
I am convinced this Superintendent, and this BOE must think we are stupid. I mean, really? Do they honestly believe we are going to believe they are spying on some students (and who knows who else) because of concerns about student safety, and to prevent another Sandy Hook?
The reason I know this isn't about student safety is because Huntsville City Schools risk the health of the next generation, for the sake of giving our community a school, located less than half a mile from an active rock quarry, aided and abetted by the city of Huntsville.
Mayor Tommy Battle and the city's air quality chief, Danny Shea, both say the amount of particulate matter in the air on Pulaski Pike is far below levels considered potentially harmful by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.I am not a rocket scientist, but you tell me how airborne fine particulate matter can be lower less than half a mile from an active rock quarry than at some other spots in town?
The city has an air quality monitoring station next door to the school site; Shea said it measures airborne particulate matter every six days.
The EPA threshold for particulate matter is 150 micrograms per cubic meter.
Shea said 46 micrograms is the highest reading detected by the city on Pulaski Pike in the past five years. The average particulate concentration was 14.8 micrograms in 2009; 17.8 micrograms in 2010; 16.3 micrograms in 2011; 14.9 micrograms in 2012; and 13.5 micrograms in 2013.
The levels are similar at Huntsville's other air quality monitoring stations on Airport Road, South Memorial Parkway and Madison Street downtown.
In a May 27 letter to the mayor, Shea said the city's measurements "demonstrate the absence of substantial adverse air quality impacts from quarry operations at the proposed school site."
The reason I know this BOE doesn't give a flying flip about potential threats to some students is because not one of them has contacted the Environmental Protection Agency or conducted a health risk analysis.
One reason I know Sandy Hook is a red herring is because the targeted students were black and brown, wanna be gang members (not to be confused with real gang members who wouldn't be caught dead on Facebook), and studies show most school shooters are white males.
Sex of the shooter is fairly much a no-brainer – female spree/school shooters are rare, and the one entry here is only because I lowered the level to three fatalities.Another reason I know Sandy Hook is a red herring is because what is the first thing white males did in response to the Sandy Hook massacre? Call for comprehensive gun control laws? Nope, the demand for weapons and ammunition skyrocketed. Which leads me to the conclusion if the school district were really trying to prevent another Sandy Hook, the NSA would be calling them about potential threats of violence from the people pictured below. I'm just saying...
Race of the shooter – there is a nearly 80% chance that the perpetrator will be white.
Age group – broadly speaking, there is about a one-third representation for teens, twenties, and 30-52.
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| A crowd winds around Larry's Pistol & Pawn Friday morning along North Memorial Parkway. Interest in guns and ammunition has soared since the shootings of over two dozen students and staff at a Connecticut elementary school. WT Martin/HNW |
8 comments:
Well I do mind if the school district looks at students twitter facebook etc. and use what is posted there as an excuse to put them out of school. And what happens to people who get put out of school? They become thugs and criminals.
They usually do but the percentage put out of school is LOW compared to the percentage who quit, go to jail then get put out, commit numerous school violations and get put out etc.
The percentage of black/brown students expelled is HIGH compared to whites. 41 percent of Huntsville's students are black but 71 percent of the students receiving out-of-school suspensions are black and 60 percent of students expelled are black. So if your argument is black students are going to be expelled anyway I agree. But that doesn't make it right (pun intended) and it's certainly not fair to taxpayers. You can't jump up and down about black on black crime then advocate putting them out of school because of something they post on social media outside of school.
I am not saying I have the answer but something needs to be done. Yes the percentage of expulsions is higher but it has NOTHING to do with skin color. It has EVERYTHING to do with breaking the rules. The same applies to society in general!
PS I agree something needs to be done. What needs to be done is people who share your point of view, and have the power to act on that point of view, need to be fired.
You are entitled to your own opinion,but you are not entitled to your own facts. The reason "blacks got suspended" is because they are black.
Racial minorities are more likely than white students to be suspended from school, to have less access to rigorous math and science classes, and to be taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience. Rights.
http://ocrdata.ed.gov/
In the 2011-12 academic year – the most recent data available – 41 percent of Huntsville's students were black but 71 percent of the students receiving out-of-school suspensions were black and 60 percent of students expelled were black.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/240979763/ACLU-letter-to-Huntsville-schools
So what your trying to say is that blacks need to act accordingly while at school!?##
No what I am saying is the superintendent, enabled by the school board, needs to stop profiling, cyberstalking, and punishing black/brown students for what they post on social media outside of school on their personal devices. Is that clear?
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