College Kids Have Too Much Privacy Analysis

On the other hand others feel that students don’t need more privacy because they enough already. From this perspective, the schools feel that the students don’t need that much privacy because all the schools want to make for their students is to help them the best they can. In an article called “College Kids Have Too Much Privacy” a Los Angeles Times publisher named Michele Willens discusses why teens shouldnt have privacy rights. The Article talks about how a mother finds out that her daughter has never graduated and that the last two years she never went to class.The mother finds this news out by a roommate that her daughter had and not by the school. Article also talks about how 45% of students who enter college each year will not graduate …show more content…
It also shows how schools can make these two issues not be as a big problem with multiple of ways schools can improve their rules and not invade the teens privacy's. One way to make sure the students do have their privacy and know the rights they do have is to go over the rules with the students and have them sign the policy's when all done hearing all the rules then just have them sign the rules (Muthler 1). Schools have to do a better way to explain all the rules the students have to follow and let them know what the school can do if they break one of these rules so students can’t argue with the school. This will help show that students don't need more privacy rights because students are using their privacy in poor …show more content…
In sum, the issue is whether schools should give students less privacy in school or teens should have more privacy in school. My own view is that teens should have more privacy when in school. Though I concede that not giving teens more privacy can help in some ways like in their grades and trying to stop cyber bullying, I still maintain that teens should have more privacy at school. For example, students joke and play around with each other a great deal and say things they don’t really mean so school shouldn’t be looking over the students’ media or through the webcam of their computers. Although some might object that how will the school know the students are joking around with each other or whether what they are saying is real or not, I reply that you can call them down and just have one on one talks about why they are saying the things they are and not go into the student's privacy like their computers, phones or on their media accounts. The issue is important because students do deserve their privacy when being at school because no one likes other people to be in their business and school is where most students spend their time during the days. Schools searching students for doing