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The recent considerations by the school district to eliminate Latin classes from USD 497 are just the tip of the iceberg.
This is one of many consequences to curriculum that will continue due to taking school closings off the table to alleviate budget constraints. This path is not a sustainable model.
Rob Chestnut (he/him), Lawrence
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Max Kautsch: In loco parentis, or just plain loco – Surveilling Kansas students doesn’t make sense (Column)
“The outcome of the case will depend largely on whether the district can show that implementing software designed to monitor students the way it did was closely related enough to an important government interest — namely, student safety — to justify Gaggle’s intrusion into the students’ lives,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
