It’s elementary.
Public education bureaucrats do the darnedest, stupidest things. Clever kids
are ready, willing and able to capitalize on that costly stupidity in a
heartbeat. Within days of rolling out a $30 million Common Core iPad program in
Los Angeles, for example, students had already hacked the supposedly secure
devices.
The Los
Angeles Times reports that the
disastrous initiative has been suspended after students from at least three
different high schools breached the devices’ security protections. It was a
piece of iCake. The young saboteurs gleefully advertised their method to their
friends, fellow Twitter and Facebook users, and the media.
“Roosevelt
students matter-of-factly explained their ingenuity Tuesday outside school,”
the L.A. Times told readers.
“The trick, they said, was to delete their personal profile information. With
the profile deleted, a student was free to surf. Soon they were sending tweets,
socializing on Facebook and streaming music through Pandora, they said.”…ToRead More…..
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