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> Students have a great deal more privacy at school

Not really. Maybe out on the school yard for a few mins, that's expected. You may have not read up on this, but schools have already turned into a surveillance dystopia: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/schools-are-spying-studen...

It's almost as if an advertising-surveillance-company is in charge of our school's IT.

> The truth is nothing is private --> defeatism

One of my most painful career lessons was never put sensitive things in email! Wish my parents could have taught me that over something inconsequential a decade earlier.

Never was and never will be private. That is the lesson.

> CS101

Computer science is not software engineering, right? That one trips up a lot of folks. But this comparison stretches even farther, it is not even in the same neighborhood as social media, friends, or fomo.

It's often an applied science class (aka programming) where it is very helpful to know a bit of algebra, typing, and the basics of computer hardware. CS theory often starts the second year. The two sets don't overlap at all, but lay folks tend to think so because computers are "magic":

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...



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