Society generally puts maximal responsibility on school administrators for the well-being of students, so it should not be surprising that they will take maximal measures in response to that expectation. They are ultimately risk mitigators, not privacy ethicists, what would you expect them to do?
To be clear, this is an article about COLLEGE students, the vast majority of whom are legal adults.
It's not the same as first grade students being monitored by their teachers, regardless of what sibling commentors have to say.
I'm just saying administrators would not take these measures if they didn't see less risk in taking them than in not.
Anecdotally, I see Xennial/Millennial 'helicopter' parents expect universities to take broad, often intrusive measures for the well-being of their children, and their (legally) adult children tend to go along with that expectation.
The administrators could educate and urge the parents and school board to vote against this faux risk mitigation.
School boards have increasingly been taken over by people actively looking to dismantle our education systems. This is a battle that has to be won on multiple fronts to make an impact.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/right-wing-extremists-schools...
Right wingers have been saying the same thing about left leaning school boards for the last decade.
Seems like they are saying the left is trying to change the curriculum, not dismantle the education system. The push toward privitization and homeschooling is pretty lopsided.
Not be authoritarian weirdos.
They're expected to have complete control of the students and are held responsible like they have complete control.
How the hell else are they supposed to act? I genuinely don't blame the schools here. I blame every single person who expects the schools to hold all encompassing control over a group of kids.
> They're expected to have complete control of the students
Since when?
Since about 1999 or 2000. Columbine really shifted people's attitudes.