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Democracy at Risk? Ask the Kids!

Editor's Note: Laura Stine is a member of IDEA's Advisory Board and a guest blogger. In this post, she responds to the recent exposure of a school district that used webcams to spy on students. She refers to a blogger with the screen name "Brainwrap" on the political opinion website The Daily Kos, which calls its blogs "diaries."

The other day, I made a suggestion in the comments of Brainwrap's excellent diary (2/22/10) on the latest developments in the evolution of the Pennsylvania school district tale known in the Daily community as ‘WebCamGate.' In short, the district is being sued by the parents of a student who was disciplined by his school for something he must have done in his...

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Posted on Feb 25, 2010 - 10:20 PM by Laura Stine

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Laura Stine

Laura has been involved in democratic education since the 1960s as a progressive educator, activist, and founder of publicly-funded progressive and democratic schools. Laura is co-founder and Executive Director of the Northwest Institute for Democratic Education, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit, whose mission is to advance the progress of democratic education in the Northwest United States.