Saturday 1st Thread For 2/20/10: You're Suspended......Based On Your Behavior At Home

First, since it's Saturday (even in the afternoon), bring in Luda:

But there is a theme to this thread besides getting the ball rolling here thanks to its respective title.

If you haven't heard about this crazy story, here is the article to get you up to speed on it. It involves a school district in Philadelphia spying on its kids. And this isn't North Philly or any notorious area we are taking about.

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the Lower Merion School District for documents related to the controversial use of remote-control cameras on students' school-issued computers, The Inquirer has learned.

The grand jury subpoena, delivered yesterday, asked for a broad range of records related to the so-called webcams and the security system that district officials used to activate them, said a lawyer who had been briefed about the matter. He spoke on the condition of anonymity.

School district spokesman Douglas Young said he could not comment last night when asked whether such a subpoena had been received. Philadelphia FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver cited the agency's policy of not confirming or denying any pending investigation.

The whole giving out laptop thing was already a shaky idea in the first place, as the article indicates that the reason for this creepy "CIA surveillance" practice by the district was because of larceny of these laptops.

Don't know anywhere in New York City that has even thought about doing this for their students. And hopefully they won't because of the sheer riskiness of it.