Friday, November 14, 2008
Tracking Students Is One Thing – But Tracking Your Entire Household?
What is the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) really tracking? We have written before such ashere and here about the teething problems with the KDE’s new student tracking system – at least we thought it was a STUDENT tracking system.
Now, a news report hints that the KDE’s new “Infinite Campus” computer database system may be something more – a household tracking system!
Why is the department of education setting up a system that tracks students not as individuals, but only as members of households? Does the department of education have legitimate reasons to track anything organized by households?
Certainly, the Times Tribune article raises lots more questions than answers about a computerized tracking system so involved that some educators say it’s “scary” just to implement the thing. Could there be even more to be scared of than anyone in the public knows?
Now, a news report hints that the KDE’s new “Infinite Campus” computer database system may be something more – a household tracking system!
Why is the department of education setting up a system that tracks students not as individuals, but only as members of households? Does the department of education have legitimate reasons to track anything organized by households?
Certainly, the Times Tribune article raises lots more questions than answers about a computerized tracking system so involved that some educators say it’s “scary” just to implement the thing. Could there be even more to be scared of than anyone in the public knows?
