I recently read the New York Times article, "Parents Monitor Students." It told of a program being used by some schools in which, "parents can check pending assignments; incomplete assignments; whether a child has been late to class; discipline notices; and grades on homework, quizzes and tests as soon as they are posted. They can also receive e-mail alerts on their cellphones." Theese sites are updated every time a new update about the student occurs. For example: The seccond a teacher calculates a student's grade on a test, it will be posted on the site. I had mixed feelings about this. It is a good program because it prevents kids from lying about grades or detentions etc. so their parents can make them study more or have better behavior. It's bad because the student's privacies are violated by this and there might be an error on the site that gives the child a failing grade when he/she really got a 100.
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