Hive Mind said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
The mere existence of that list is grounds for having that school audited.
Care to explain why you feel this way?
Ok. Having worked in schools before, the teacher's overall view of a student isn't just shared in staffrooms, but it affects how teachers behave to their students.
None of the teacher's preferences will be noted, I'm sure, so what we're left with is a
potential misconduct rating of a child, performed by a non-professional, based on rumors, suppositions and no hard data.
So it's basically a scandal sheet before the fact.
Secondly, the fact that the school is seriously thinking about the idea of a school shooting will naturally ramp teacher's paranoia level up.
Thirdly,
NONE of the categories are denoting what could be a killer. We don't even know if there is a common link.
Forthly, if that information is kept without the child or parent's knowledge, then it could be false/falsified with ease. And if the OP got his, he could get anyones.
Fifthly, the school's security level is already showing in that the OP was made aware of it's existence and was then able to retrieve it.
Sixthly, the school has no right to that information: Whether it's used for a positive or negative effect.
Let's have a little think of what information could be stored in those files:
Potential Risk: Teenage Pregnancy - Which of the girls are virgin, which have slept with others...
Potential Risk: Child Abuse - Which children have unexplained bruises?
Potential Risk: Smoking - Which children have been seen near smokers?
Potential Risk: Homophobic Bullying - Has the child ever hid away from the others in the showers?
Seventhly - and this is perhaps the most important of all - what the hell are they going to do if the OP does flag a "possible" or even "probable" candidate? Get him arrested?
Eighthly - If you're a teacher going into a room full of kids, and you know 5 of the 30 "need to be NICER to" - what exactly is going to be going through your mind at that time? A sixth of my kids will shoot me if I get them upset? That's a REALLY shitty way to run a school.
In most schools I have been in, I could name you the troublemakers after one lesson. Out of 100 students.
If they're having to keep files, then they're incompetent, lazy and fear-mongering. Get OUT while you can.