[kelnos]

This isn't gamification; this is a violation of a child's privacy, and teaches kids that if they don't toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble. I'm genuinely appalled that this even exists. This is one step away from some kind of social credit system.

[seanmcdirmid]

Sounds like school in the USA (as well as many other countries). Tech is just making that aspect more explicit.

Supposedly public schools in the states were created during the industrial revolution to train up obedient factory workers. Private schools before that were founded to train up a nobility steeped in hierarchy.

[lifeisstillgood]

>>> if they don't toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble.

this

As a parent I struggle horribly not to make up arbitrary rules and then come down on them for it - it should not be part of the school bestoractise

[Simon_says]

> if they don't toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble

Sounds like good practice.

[mantap]

Sure if you want your kid to grow up into a dumb grunt.

[droithomme]

I agree, but I think his comment was sarcastic as that's an actual argument I have heard people make against homeschooling: "Bullying is no reason to homeschool. In public school your student will be bullied and learn how to deal with it. This is important life experience because it's how the real workplace is. Homeschooled students can not function in the workplace because they never learned how to handle the bullying." In other worlds the world is abusive, so there is a moral obligation to abuse our children so they learn to get used to it. Homeschooling parents are thus cast as abusing their children by not subjecting them to the constant abuse that describes the life long personal experiences of the anti-homeschooling advocate, who can't imagine any other world beyond daily abuse, belittling, nagging and worse, all seen as good for you as it makes you tough. Similar to the philosophy of the ancient Spartans who threw their babies off of cliffs and those who survived were strong enough to be Spartans.