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Watch Over Your Loved Ones with Folr

The following post is sponsored by Folr.

My son started middle school a few weeks ago so I broke down and finally got him a phone. He’s been begging for one for a long time but there was just no need for him to have one. But now that he’s attending a huge school and will be taking a bus into the village with his friends and basically having a lot more freedom …

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The New Technology Police

unny, I thought parents and teachers were supposed to keep an eye on our kids.Yet there is a technology company whose mission is to sell schools daily monitoring reports of students’ social media chats. For a fee, the company, Geo Listening, tracks students social media posts. Schools then receive daily reports sorted into the following categories: cyber bullying, despair, hate, crime, vandalism, truancy, and substance abuse.Why? We adults are failing in our efforts …