School Surveillance Is Criminalizing Speech

Somewhere along the way, American schools decided the biggest threat to education wasn’t funding cuts, overstuffed classrooms, or a testing regime that’s turned learning into a factory line. No, the real menace, apparently, is the teenager with a Chromebook.

The pitch is simple: let software read every thought kids accidentally type, and maybe it will stop the next headline-grabbing tragedy. Parents are told this is about safety. Administrators are told this is about liability. What it actually creates is an educational system where the kid who types “kill me now” because they bombed a math test might suddenly be flagged as a national security concern.