Data collection is starting as soon as kindergarten, Ms. Lindalyn Kakadelis wrote an article about her and her daughters concerns for her grand daughter image being used outside of the school house. Her daughter created a letter informing the school that she doesn't want her students image to be used out side of the school house. You can read the blog and sample letter by clicking the link.
http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2015/08/21/parents-can-opt-child-out-of-photo-video-data-collection-if-only-they-knew/#.Vdg_IuNOLwA.facebook
i have read several articles on the concern of protecting student data and images. Parents when you enroll your students into a school we often sign disclaimers allowing the school to take photos and videos of our students for school purposes. What we don't realize is that by signing the disclaimer we are also given the school permission to use the photos and video outside of the school house. You can protect your students image by writing a letter to the school informing them that you don't want your student image used outside the school house.
Q: Do parents/family members have a choice regarding the use and storage of photographs and videos taken of their child to support the formative assessment process?
A: Some families have concerns regarding the use and storage of photographs and videos of their child(ren). These concerns stem from anxiety about data security in a world where security breaches have become far too common. While we have confirmed that Teaching Strategies has never had a security breach, and have communicated that information to families who have expressed concern, we recognize that parents may still choose not to have photographs and videos of their child collected and stored on the electronic platform. Parents certainly have this choice.
So now that we are informed in opting out our students image via photo and video, lets share the info with as many parents as possible. We also need to understand our right to opt out of standardized test. Keystone test are not a requirement to graduate in Pennsylvania. There are several bills in the house and senate addressing these concerns HB172 SB880. You can learn more and copy the opt out letters to present to the school district athttp://www.workingeducators.org/opt_out_philly_hits_the_streets_in_2015_2016?recruiter_id=6
If you reside outside of Pennsylvania please visit United Opt Out site for information concerning opt out in your state!!
Also to learn more about common core please visit:
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/opt-info/
Parents we are under attack much like our educators. Corporate America is working hard to implement public education as an online and only online tool, this way educators are no longer required. Alarming because online learning is not for everyone, and not every parent has the ability to assist their student online. i worked with a family who used the online platform. The family hired me because their students were failing in this online school. The students were failing because the parents didn't have the time and knowledge to supervise/assist their students online activities. Education is a family responsibility, parents should be involved in every step of their youth educational development.
American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which is working to enrich corporations and, as one ALEC member put it, “stomp out local control.”
Also in Philadelphia some of the schools have clinics that students age 14 and up can visit without parental consent. Is there a clinic in your students school? i learned that these clinics don't know how to relate to our students and have destroyed families by putting the youth who seems challenging, in DHS custody.
#parentsunite #parentstrike #stopcommoncore #nationaloptout #refusethetest #phillyoptout
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Riyo Proposal for Parental Verification Method Under COPPA Rule
ReplyDeleteThe Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a proposed verifiable parental consent method that Riyo has submitted for Commission approval under the agency’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule.
Under the rule, online sites and services directed at children must obtain permission from a child’s parents before collecting personal information from that child. The rule lays out a number of acceptable methods for gaining parental consent, but also includes a provision allowing interested parties to submit new verifiable parental consent methods to the Commission for approval.
In a Federal Register notice to be published shortly, the FTC is seeking public comment about the proposed Riyo verifiable parental consent method including whether the proposed method is already covered by existing methods under the rule and whether it meets the rule’s requirement that it be reasonably calculated to ensure that the person providing the consent is actually the child’s parent. The Commission also seeks comment on whether the program poses a risk to consumers’ information and whether that risk is outweighed by the benefits of the program. The comment period will last until Sept. 3, 2015.
NOTE: Publication of this Federal Register notice does not indicate Commission approval of the program. The Commission has 120 days to review proposed verifiable parental consent methods and must set forth its conclusions in writing.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC’s online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC’s website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics. Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.
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learning from facebook that you may also want to optout of COPPA, AIMS and 4Sight,
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Call Today to Launch Parental Rights Bill
-- August 25, 2015
Dear Friend of Parental Rights in Pennsylvania,
Representative Will Tallman has sent a memo asking his colleagues in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to co-sponsor the Parental Rights Protection Act. This bill will establish parental rights in PA as a fundamental right, elevating it to the highest level of protection in law. It will receive a bill number this Friday, and in order to have a good chance of becoming law it needs strong bi-partisan support from the legislators.
This means that your help is needed now. Call your legislators, telling them that you are concerned about the erosion of parental rights in America and want your parental rights protected in law as a fundamental right. Ask them to sign on as co-sponsors to this bill for the sake of liberty and parental rights. Tell them that according to a Zobgy poll, on average more than 90% of parents in their district value the right to raise their children without interference from the government or other institutions. If they take a strong stand for parental rights and this bill passes, they can be a hero in their district.
Please contact your state legislators this week, preferably today, and urge them to contact Rep. Tallman to co-sponsor this bill. You can find your Representative's contact information at www.legis.state.pa.us.
Thank you.
Vickie Suarez
Pennsylvania State Coordinator
Alison McDowell via googlegroups.com
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to opt-out-philly, ITAG-Opt-Out, july7walk
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/opt-out-standardized-testing-overload
Nationally, there are thousands of struggling schools like Mission where teachers are engaged in similar hard, messy, and slow work. What if instead of spending more money on new rounds of tests, we focused on their ability to learn and lead on the job?
No country has ever turned around its educational achievement by increasing standardized tests, according to research conducted by Lant Pritchett at the Center for Global Development. The best systems, it turns out, invest in supporting accountability at the school level—like those teacher meetings at Mission High.
"IT'S ALWAYS AN ATTEMPT to hijack the effort by the teacher to think about education," McKamey told me one morning as we talked about the dozens of reform efforts she's seen come and go in 27 years of working in inner-city schools. The only thing none of the politicians, consultants, and philanthropists who came in to fix education ever tried, she said, was a systemic commitment to support teachers as leaders in closing the achievement gap, one classroom at a time.