It contains a directory with email addresses of every teacher and administrator. There is a calendar of activities, parent/student handbook, athletics, news, and a button dedicated to notifications. That is, if the Twitter and/or Facebook account for every school is not enough.
No question that with all the information just being collected by Facebook that parents, students, and teachers in Ridgewood will someday see the wisdom contained in these words of Thomas Hardy. He wrote: ‘Since I discovered several years ago, that I was living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently, I have troubled myself very little about theories. I am content with tentativeness from day to day.’
No need for me to point out the flaws inherent in the business model of technology companies, as it is indelibly etched into our memories by reports and their own admissions. Though wouldn't it be grand if it wasn't so! If we could be sharing information, be connected, and accomplish great societal feats in rapid fashion, without this very information being collected, analyzed, and used against us. I refer to what used to be called "tact" or the delicate and considerate perception of what is appropriate.
Now that the genie has been let out of the bottle we seemingly are left with what the character from It's A Wonderful Life Mr Potter observed,
"What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like (Fill in the blank with your favorite tech CEO) stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas."
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