Parents Concerned About Schools Harch Discipline

Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Concerned parents showed up in numbers at last evening’s Madison Central School Board meeting. The issue- discipline for those students who were caught using their computers to by-pass the schools security system. When Madison High authorities realized just how many kids were involved with the hacking, they decided to confiscate the computers so they could check who had logged into the security system and who hadn’t. Parents like Doug Vanderwerf had complaints that not all the computers were checked, and that the school went to a system of randomly checking the laptops for violators. Vanderwerff complained that because of the time it took to check the computers, some students were suspended from class sooner than others, which he says affected some of the students more than others.

Vanderwerff also said the school had a quote- “paper thin security system” Vanderwerf also expressed concern for what the discipline was doing for the kids grades.

The Madison School board held further discussions in public, but also held an executive session to discuss the matter in more detail.