I just signed a petition put out by @noschoolai, run by parents whose children attend the Vancouver school district in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Their school board, the VSB, has decided to deploy the Microsoft Copilot generative AI tool to the district. These parents oppose the use of Gen AI chatbots in schools, and have organized a petition drive to signal to the school board that the wider community does not agree with this deployment.

Here is what I wrote in my petition comment:

While neither a resident of the region or a parent of a student in this school, I am a tech policy expert and advisor on the use of generative AI in K-12 education.

I strongly discourage the VSB from deploying this technology until and unless they understand the educational purpose of the deployment, and have already passed and enacted appropriate districtwide policies governing the boundaries of how, when, and who are allowed to use it, and for what purpose, sought feedback from the wider community, and fully understand and have explained to the public what are the privacy, data security, and abuse/exploitation risks you are willing to tolerate in order to subject students and staff in the district to this technology.

If you cannot explain the fundamental educational purpose of this project, the limits you place on its use, and a risk model for what happens when use falls outside of these parameters, under no circumstances do you have any business deploying or using generative AI in any schools.

https://noai.school/vsb-petition/

#EdTech #SchoolBoard #TechPolicy

This Maine school district passed trans-inclusive policies. Online comments forced it to up security

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/maine-school-district-security-transgender

California councilmember blames daughter becoming a lesbian on sexual trauma

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/california-councilmember-lesbian-daughter

#JusticeDepartment Sues #LoudounCounty for #Religious #Discrimination

The suit alleges the #schoolboard violated the equal protection of two #Christian #students.

https://northernvirginiamag.com/news/2025/12/09/justice-department-sues-loudoun-county-for-religious-discrimination/

A teacher asked an important question about superintendent's pay raise. Then she got arrested.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/teacher-arrested-ex1

I'm a member of the Boulder Valley School District's "District Accountability Committee" or DAC. Each school in the district has a representative that meets once a month at district headquarters to hash out policy, budget, and other recommendations to the school board.

At last night's DAC meeting, during the Q&A period following our Superintendent's briefing (in which he brought up the ongoing problem of kids vaping in school bathrooms), I mentioned an amazing talk I saw at this past @defcon #DEFCON33 called "Unmasking the Snitch Puck: The creepy IoT surveillance in the school bathroom" - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnojaEpF2I

You see, New Vista High School, which just opened a brand new building, has installed these devices, called a Halo 3C Smart Sensor, in all the bathrooms and elsewhere inside the school building, and has made a measurable impact reducing the number of vaping-in-school incidents. But, as I told superintendent Anderson, the sensor itself brings along with it some seriously problematic security vulnerabilities, in addition to the undocumented capabilities that the researchers in the talk exploited.

The superintendent's response to that made the whole room bust out laughing: "Andrew, you never fail to bring to my attention things that scare the hell out of me" - to which I responded, literally my job, Rob. It's why they call it "Threat Research" my guy.

This is why every community board, council, committee, etc. needs a thoughtful hacker present, to relay important information like this to policy implementers and policy makers who just don't keep up with this space.

#BVSD #schoolboard #edtech #edpolicy #techpolicy #Boulder #COpolitics

The school board chair of #Kentucky's second-largest school district is trying to stop members from speaking to the media if they're on the losing side of a Board vote.

One would think that a school board should understand the First Amendment...yeesh. #schoolboard #1A

https://bit.ly/4p7O9zs

It is a great sign in #Florida when people have the spine to take back local control of the school boards which have been hijacked by overzealous state officials.

#SchoolBoard
#FreeSpeach
#CharlieKirk
#RefuteTheFascists

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