ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Freedom in Schools
- Spying 101
Source: WorldNetDaily
Country: United States
- The new W.A.V.E. anti-violence program in America's public school system is teaching children how to spy on other students and to turn them in, using an anonymous toll-free line to a detective agency. (3/27/00)
- Kids, earn extra cash! Rat on your enemies
Source: Free!
Author: Jon Katz
Country: United States
- The new W.A.V.E. program spreading across the country encourages students to anonymously fink on classmates for transgressions. (4/4/00)
- The school shooter: A threat-assessment perspective
Source: FBI
Country: United States
- Although the FBI says that this document is not to be used as a profile for identifying schoolyard-shooters-in-waiting, it's written in a way that tempts school officials to tag "weird" kids as murderous threats. (9/00)
- Racist speech on college campuses
Source: ACLU
Country: United States
- The ACLU’s take on why speech codes are wrong, and won’t make racism go away.
- Hate speech on campus
Source: ACLU
Country: United States
- The ACLU explains why speech that wanders "beyond the pale" deserves protection — and more speech in response.
- Speak freely, professor -- within the speech code
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Country: United States
- Daphne Patai, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, relates her discovery that within the American Association of University Professors, advocacy of free speech and academic freedom is now considered "conservative." (6/8/00)
- Due process
Source: ACLU
Country: United States
- An ACLU backgrounder on students' right to due process in public schools.
- Free expression
Source: ACLU
Country: United States
- An ACLU backgrounder on students' right to free expression in public schools.
- Privacy rights
Source: ACLU
Country: United States
- An ACLU backgrounder on students' privacy rights in public schools.
- Kangaroo courts on campus
Source: FIRE
Country: United States
- Transcript of a CNN broadcast about the "Star Chamber" treatment of a student at Brandeis University and about The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's intervention in the case. (01/16/01)
- Computer to identify violence-prone students
Source: WorldNetDaily
Country: United States
- The Mosaic 2000 computer program, developed with help from the ATF, is intended to identify students who have yet to do anything wrong but "might" turn violent. (12/15/99)
- School finger scans
Source: CFIF
Country: United States
- "From Pennsylvania to Minnesota, several school districts are testing technology that enables students to purchase food in cafeterias or check out library books, all with the stroke of a finger on a touch-pad. ... But wait a minute, say opponents. What happens to the database of the students’ fingerprints?"
- About speech codes
Source: FIRE
Country: United States
- Great introduction to speech codes, including the various names universities give them to disguise their real, censorial nature.
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