Educators Can’t Win With GPS, They Get It From All Sides
Big Brother GPS tracks pupils to satellite campus
SCHOOL pupils could soon be tracked by satellite while they are being educated.
Councillors are considering giving every secondary student a personal computer which would incorporate a GPS (global positioning system)… full article here:
Geez, it’s as if they read my blog, eh? In an unsigned article (dingbats often hide behind anonymity) the Tameside Advertiser makes fun of intelligent effort by the school authorities to protect pupils by publishing an article under the “link bait” headline of “Big Brother”.
The Advertiser, by the way, is located in the United Kingdom. You know, that land that harbors subway and bus bombers and was stopped only days from launching a lip stick oops, liquid explosives attack on the US. No reason to protect their children there, is there? Nah, everyone respects the Queen and sits around playing dominos when they aren’t drinking warm beer.
You know to write for most newspapers, even small ones, journalists usually need at least a modicum of education. I have no degree in journalism. But I do know that a couple of the primary precepts of responsible reporting are to represent the facts, and to not interject personal opinion (unless writing on the OpEd page, or on a blog, clearly labeled as opinion, as is this one).
“Big Brother” is a fictional character from George Orwell’s novel, 1984. “He” earns his well-deserved reputation of evil by spying and controlling even the thoughts of “his” subjects.
The school councillors in this article are not only planning to use GPS to help insure their students’ safety, but to equip their students with laptops and other advantages to better their education … but the news media can’t resist the chance to slap them with a completely unfair and oblique reference to a notorious villain.
Way to go, Tameside Advertiser, wonder if any of the folks in your office learned to read, write and publish newspapers with the assistance of these local ner-do-wells?