Privacy of student internet accts & files

[Jane Borge-Eliasen <jborg@AERO.NET>]

For the 97/98 school year I have worked in a high school library which
has a completely accessible 24-unit computer lab with full internet
access.

I was appalled recently when the "technology coordinator" began
announcing to students that he had erased their "B-drive" [files]
because of their content.  Similarly, he announced to other students
that, because of their grades, their login would be disabled  until he
decided  grades were good enough.

Because this "lab" is also used after school for playing "Quake," there
have been serious on-going problems with network functioning.  One
weekend the entire B-drive was wiped out.   Faculty and staff also store
their files on the "B drive,"so presumably these files are available
between crashes.

We do have a district firewall and local site-based screening software
(Cyber Patrol) in place.

What issues would you have with this?

Jane Borge, Librarian
Bay View High School
Milwaukee
jborg@aero.com

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