The Wicomico County Board of Education and Somerset County Board of Education are among the Maryland school districts to join a class action lawsuit against social media companies that include TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, and others. In the suit, they are claiming that social media platforms adversely affect students’ academic performance and mental health. Although the Delmarva Parent Teacher Coalition strongly agrees with that claim, there remains a big conflict within these school districts.
The school system has absolutely no say over what a private company does. The school system cannot control what a parent or child does outside of school. It’s the parent that gives their child the smartphone, tablet, or computer, subscribes to the service, and decides what their child can or cannot access on the Internet, including social media platforms. The parent is ultimately responsible, not the social media platforms.
Therefore, the school system has absolutely no legal standing to make a claim against any social media company that they did not directly subscribe or were directly brought harm. Of course, their board lawyer already informed them of that, so they should be fully aware.
Those that oversee the school districts all contradict themselves, as they too are adversely affecting students’ academic performance and mental health through the use of obscene materials and the sexualization of students in our K-12 schools. This problem is something that the boards have full control and can easily fix, but they fail to address this issue or define the word “appropriate.” Now, they want to point a finger without at least doing their part. They need a diversion.
Joining the DEMOCRATS !!
CRT / SEX CHANGES !!!
POSERS!
I disagree. The schools do suffer harms, as do the students and their parents. It’s not simply that the parents have given devices to their kids that allow for them to use social media. It’s that the social media companies are alleged to have been engaging in misleading and undisclosed manipulative engineering of their products, to reinforce what essentially becomes an addiction and reinforces harmful thoughts and behaviors. It’s very much like when we found out that the cigarette companies made their products even more addictive than plain old tobacco would have been, and instead of disclosing that they misled people about both the substance they were smoking, and how it was being engineered to make it even more addictive. And, may I ask, why would you object to the schools (or the parents or the kids) pursuing recompense for these damages, if in fact the evidence proves true?
The legal beagles representing the districts hope to benefit by snaring some cash if/when a settlement occurs and the ambulance chaser group gets a large share of the proceeds to divvy up, akin to a pirate crew splitting the stolen treasure. Along the way they’ll have little legal work to do aside from filing copies of some paperwork. If the same legal beagle is representing both districts, just changing the names won’t be too difficult for the second prospective windfall.
Now to a vexing point. The Feds have warned against TikTok, Maryland has banned it from state devices but at least one HS uses it to distribute student made content, and potentially staff contributed content, via email. It can’t be accessed via district email since it’s blocked but the hyperlink is published via district email. Probably a case of the left hand at the top unaware of what the right hand further down in the ranks is doing but would seem to undercut the claim of injury in the lawsuit to have been doing this before and after joining the class action.
The school boards need to add themselves as co-defendents because their gender confusion and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies have done as much or more emotional damage to students then the tech/social platforms being sued.
Social Media is Communist Media !!! Controlled by the Democrat Party !!! ( NAZIS )
Wicomico Country School boards are fascists, only care about money and power, they need to be disbanded and dissolved.
Stuck Up Bunch of EGO-MANIACS who think they are better than us !!!! College Don’t make one
SMART !!!!
Working Man’s PHD Far above the rest !!!!
I meant County, not Country
kinda like the pot calling the kettle black? the schools are failing miserably at their primary job. why? because the majority of teachers are DemonicRats! so shift the blame elsewhere! they could just ban the phones from school. need to call your parents then go to the office and use a landline! I know, to easy! huh!
Defund public education …vouchers for everyone!!!…
Micah Stauffer is about as tough as a wet noodle, and just a weak excuse for a leader. No spine or backbone at all. A real leader would have dispensed with this mess a long time ago by throwing this garbage out and giving clear directives to staff to keep this junk out of schools.
In Somerset County, 12 of the 13 highest paid positions, excluding principals, are held by staff who live outside of Somerset. These educators will not send their children to learn in Somerset because the English proficiency is 20% and Math proficiency is 11%.
Of course the kids can’t read or do math in Somerset….most of them come from MAGA retard broken homes…they will only become meth addicts and grifters like the rest of the cult….