Florida high school student Alexa Manganiotis was startled by how quickly her school’s surveillance software worked.
While interviewing a teacher for her school newspaper, the 16-year-old from West Palm Beach learned that two students had once typed something threatening about that teacher on a school computer. They quickly deleted it. But Lightspeed Alert — a monitoring tool piloted at Dreyfoos School of the Arts — flagged it. Within minutes, the students were removed from class.
“If an adult makes a super racist joke that’s threatening on their computer, they can delete it, and they wouldn’t be arrested,” Alexa said. “But with kids, it’s different.”…