That is what I was thinking too. Don't sue the police. They will get any data they can get their hands on. Sue the school system that is supposed to be helping these children.
No. The article states that the school already lost grant funding because an organization didn't like what they were doing. I'd also be willing to bet the school is doing this due to lack of funding to begin with. Taking even more of their funding away would not help anything.
I think you can simultaneously support schools being better funded through legitimate avenues while rejecting the notion that underfunded schools should be able to sell students' private information to make money. This is not the only way the school can obtain adequate funding.
I should have been more clear in my comment, but I am not saying I think it's ok that the school did this. I was suggesting that they could have done it in a desperate attempt for funding. But my main point is that you shouldn't sue schools, because you're just taking (your own) money away from students.
> my main point is that you shouldn't sue schools, because you're just taking (your own) money away from students
I respectfully disagree. The ability to sue public institutions -- schools, police departments, cities, etc. -- when they do wrong is key to accountability. It is never the preferred way, but sometimes it's a legitimate last resort.
I also would not characterize it as taking your own money away from students. If a man was going to buy his daughter an expensive birthday present, but he drives drunk and crashes into my house, I might sue him, and he might have to give me the money he was planning to use to buy the present. But have I deprived the girl of her present, or has he? In the same way, it is the public institutions, and their leaders, who are at fault if they conduct themselves in a way that leads to legal liabilities, not the victims who sue. The students who are deprived of resources as a result of those legal liabilities should blame the school administration, not the victims.
