GERMANTOWN, Md. – Parents are demanding answers from officials in Montgomery County who leaked sensitive student data on 16 kindergartners and 145 fourth-graders during a presentation at an education conference.
The lapse was made by the chief technology officer for Montgomery County schools during a conference in Missouri several year ago, when he used a PowerPoint presentation with real pictures, names and phone numbers of the district’s kindergartners. The presentation also featured names, student ID numbers and reading scores for 145 fourth graders, The Washington Post reports.
Parents were largely unaware of the issue until recently, when the information was presented again at a different conference in Alabama and organizers uploaded the PowerPoint to a government website.
How does it escape them that this shouldn’t go up? It’s a very basic protocol to follow, one they open up teacher education with and spend the next four years banging it into the heads of future educators.
And then they CHOSE to do it AGAIN!
Pedophiles pay well.
Welcome to Commie Core. Data mining and determining your child’s career path are features, not bugs.
I dont get the outrage, honestly. Someone saw a picture of your kid. They could take a picture of your kid walking down the street. ( oh yeah, kids don’t walk down the street anymore…) This was a school conference, not a NAMBLA meeting. Man, people are so paranoid!!!
If you turn your child over for indoctrination to people like these, you are abusing your child.
There are more pederasts and pedophiles in the AFT and NEA than in NAMBLA.
For you it might not be, and that’s OK. You likely then would have signed the release form–which I certainly have no problem with; it’s your choice, after all. That’s where some other parents have a problem with this, because that choice was denied them. Pictures and identifying info can have a bad habit of making it to the internet and parents rightly wonder that if school officials remove the decision from parents in this instance, are they doing it anywhere else?
Apart from that, they could also ask why they need names, pictures, etc. to make their number-crunching report re: school performance. They don’t.