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Please send your questions, concerns, or offers to volunteer anytime via email to info@respect4students.org.

As you might expect, we will never sell or share your personal information.

Take Our Survey!

Alternatively, complete our electronic survey to express your views on a range of student privacy issues.

All information is completely OPTIONAL and completely CONFIDENTIAL.

Do you support strong privacy and basic human rights for students and their parents?

We believe that our school board should adopt policies that unequivocally guarantee ongoing privacy for our students in the face of increasing automation and surveillance? In particular:

  1. Custody of student records is a solemn public trust that our school should not delegate or outsource. All information about individual students should be physically stored only on school premises and not be shared outside the local school except
    1. by specific vote of the board for each release, or
    2. to the least degree strictly necessary to comply with law, or
    3. with the prior written consent of the student/parent.
  2. Students (and their parents) own the works that they create, in or out of school. Students cannot be compelled to use software, computers, or network servers whose terms would dilute or reassign their rights.
  3. Students have the right to prepare their school work without electronic surveillance. Students cannot be compelled to use software, file formats, computers, or network servers that could monitor their work activity or collect information about its time, place, or manner.
  4. Students (and their parents) cannot be compelled to accept software licenses, contracts, terms of service, intellectual property agreements, enrollments in third-party accounts or online services in order to enjoy full and equal participation in the normal course of study.

We believe that the privacy and basic human rights of our students must not be compromised for the sake of cool technology or staff convenience. By properly applying up-to-date technology, our schools can automate, streamline, and improve their outreach without any such compromise.

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  1. Custody of student records is a solemn public trust that our school should not delegate or outsource.
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  2. We must give up our privacy and basic human rights in order to enjoy the benefits of new technology in our schools.
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  3. Students cannot participate in the normal course of study unless they agree to all presented contracts, licenses, or other conditions.
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  4. My vote for school board candidates will be influenced by their committment to student privacy and basic rights.
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  5. A resolution about student privacy protections should be considered at my Town Meeting.
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  6. Basic student rights and privacy should also be protected at the state level.
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