The Surveillance State in American Schools

by Sean M. Brooks, Ph.D. | Aug 21, 2024

While I’ve discussed this subject in detail, both on my own and with Vanessa Hurst in years past (as a former guest and author on this Substack channel), this subject deserves an updated look.

The “COVID” lie was purposeful. It’s was designed to usher in tech programs that had already been created and were waiting in the shadows to be implemented, once the COVID lie was bought hook, line and sinker, from the American school system and their lackeys.

This data harvesting and surveillance of movements, as in most cases, is sold to American school districts as being a deterrent to violent behavior and a way to receive more compliance. Not only do these tech companies require teachers to wear more wireless devices and technological passes, but many companies require students within schools to do the same on a daily basis.

While all of this is happening, there is also an ever-present monitoring system that is in place for students as well. This has to do with grade and behavioral analysis programs that are digitized and monitor other measures of a student’s performance, that can also be monitored by parents and other school officials. These programs are also used to track, trace, and predict future outcomes for students within schools. This is artificial intelligence at work. For example, a human employee will trust a computer program that says that a particular student needs a particular accommodation or method of instruction, or test, and then the human will blindly believe the A.I. computer program. They will even rely on such a digitized A.I. answer as their justification for their stance on a situation; thereby bypassing individual human thought and rational decision making.

This is the convergence and dominance of machine over man.

In summary, before I get into the specifics of a number of surveillance programs that exist within American school districts, understand that there are many more that I’m not mentioning. In fact, there are too many to count, and their ubiquity is overwhelming.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the normalization of the surveillance state on American youth, within there daily lives and the pre-programming of such methods, so that upon adulthood, the use of such methods will be seen as normal and necessary. There is nothing about any surveillance state that is normal, nor is the data harvesting of personal information of American citizens, regardless of age. Ultimately, it’s used in order to be used to beat humans into compliance, without pushback or critical thought.

The schools who implement these tech-surveillance systems never ask larger questions. They simply comply and they’re paid to do so. Look what they did regarding the “COVID” lie. If you think that “contact tracing” for an illness that doesn’t exist was bad, that was just the first step to the normalization of what is going on now and what lies ahead.

Please share this article and get your children, and those you love, out of these public, private, or charter environments, NOW!

Amazon Web Services: Student Management.

Amazon Web Services: Student Management page is a massive data tracking system, and they don’t even hide their motives. They use words like “streamline” and “massive amounts of data” to tell you that they believe such methods and practices are critical to student success. Yet, there are zero correlations between the data harvesting of a child’s information and whereabouts—and academic success. AWS Student Management states the following:

To report on student progress, primary and secondary (K-12) schools must continuously capture and process significant amounts of data, including student intake, attendance, and assessments. Teachers, students, and parents generally all have access to these records, making it challenging to keep this data secure and accurate. Student Management solutions on AWS provide reliable, performant services that scale to the volume and variety of student data collected each day. Additionally, embedded identity and access controls keep data private and protected.

They’re telling you that they’rere the ones who keep the data. They say it’s secure, yet it’s they as a giant global company who are farming and harvesting this information to track and trace children and monitor their compliance. This childhood data that is gathered within schools by these data harvesting programs, are tied into every walk of life and every business imaginable. Everything from advertising and marketing, to agriculture, to education and the retail business. They won’t tell you this either, but they sell this data to the highest bidder, and that includes foreign governments, law enforcement, three-letter agencies, and future employers.

OneSchool Global & Octopus BI.

AWS also uses a program they call OneSchool Global, and they utilize a computer program called Octopus BI. At face value for the awake, this is translated into: “One world government and communism across every school in the world, while the octopus (jewish money lenders) infiltrate and implement every tool in these environments and the people within, whether you want it or not.”

Further, it states that Octopus BI stands for “business intelligence:”

Octopus BI is an education focussed data analytics and business intelligence platform. We leverage the terabytes of data being collected in institutions every day, to bring actionable insights to the people that need them the most; Teachers, Parents and Students. Octopus BI is fueled by one goal – to empower businesses with invaluable insights from data to transform future outcomes.

Translation: “These AI programs are used to weed out the non-compliant and only accept the compliant, and we start that data harvesting and tracking at birth or certainly when you enter the government schooling system.”

One school goes on to describe themselves as the following:

OneSchool Global, founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1994, is a comprehensive K–12 global school system with more than 8,500 students studying on 125 campuses in 20 countries. OneSchool Global specializes in using a self-directed approach to learning, in which students take responsibility for their learning and teachers act as coaches and facilitators. Through this approach, which is reflected in collaborative learning spaces and innovative technologies across all campuses, students are better prepared for life beyond school.

The Octopus BI solution collects educational data from multiple OneSchool Global student and school databases and stores it in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The solution uses Amazon Athena to transform the data and places it into Amazon Redshift tables for visualization and analysis. Close to 300 OneSchool Global leaders can log into an Octopus BI web portal via desktop or mobile device and access real-time data dashboards. Data displayed in the dashboards includes formal testing data, student information system data, learning management system data, and student sentiment data from the school’s survey tools. “With Octopus BI, we’re able to create campus-based, regional, or global data dashboards that include any kind of data we want, available to anyone from our schools,” says Frizelle.

OneSchool Global is relying on Octopus BI dashboards to better follow student learning progression and growth by viewing both academic performance and welfare/sentiment trends. “It’s not just about accessing data, it’s also about how to understand that data,” says Furness. “Growth measurement is huge in the education market right now, and we’re trying to help schools more easily look at student growth trends through data.” For example, OneSchool Global can more easily measure academic progress through various tools to predict where students should be based on current performance metrics. “We now have a much better way to gauge how we’re doing as a school system to meet those metrics,” says Frizelle.

OneSchool Global is also using Octopus BI to benchmark individual regions against global standards. As a result, a school leader can identify whether a campus or region is above or below a specific performance benchmark while also identifying and addressing sentiment-related drivers that might have caused a change.

This is beyond a tracking system. It’s lifetime data harvesting in a surveillance state, and the normalization of such a state on a global-government scale, while using the school environments as a starting point. They aren’t mincing words here either. They’re rather direct in what they’re doing, what they want, and how they’ll get it.

OTUS.

Now, on to more district and school-specific programs. This first one is called Otus.

Launched in 2013, Otus is an educational technology company dedicated to empowering educators to harness and act on educational data to improve learner outcomes. Today, Otus is utilized by over 240 K-12 districts and schools and has delivered improved results for more than 1 million learners and their families. Otus was created and built for teachers, by teachers. This unique characteristic is the foundation and driving force for all future development and every implementation of the platform.

Programs like this are always sold to districts under the false story of saying; “This program was designs and created by teachers. That’s what makes us unique.” This isn’t true.

All these programers do is consult with teachers and arrive at a semi-conciseness as to what teachers have suggested, while knowing well in advance how to design and impediment such a tracking and student monitoring device. Also ask yourself this question if you haven’t already: Did your teachers when you were young need these systems in place to be successful or gain students achievement? Of course they didn’t. Therefore the excuse that is made is an advertising one, not a logical one.

Companies like this and the larger ones that buy them out, like Amazon’s AWS, will say; “We live is a different world than we did 30 years ago and we need this in todays digitized landscape. We have to change with the times because the times demand it.” This is a bullshit non-answer and a cop-out. There is no proof that such devices make things easier, let alone more successful. The only success that such platforms seek to gain is the data-harvesting of minors for future implementation of A.I. in all walks of life, including a future social-credit score and a digital-banking system.

These programs are also, simply put, just one more thing to do for teachers and other staff members, as if to say; “Why don’t you know how a student is doing? Are you not referencing our assessment system?!” Any failure to not use such a system or monitor such a system for students will be used against the parent, the student, and an employee; and such a failure to closely monitor any data that is retrieved or analyzed will result in a contract-breaking offense. It is, and will be used, as a divisive tool between parties, both inside and outside of the workplace. This has already happened regarding its predecessors, such as yearly state standardized testing databases that monitor students test scores throughout the years.

As has been academically proven and as I’ve stated before on my podcast, looking at such digitized data as a school employee, has as much impact on student academic success as it does on impacting the physical height of a student. This was proven in a paper titled; Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale (2021). The abstract stated the following:

Estimates of teacher “value-added” suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value- added measures as indicators of teacher job performance. In this paper, we conduct a new test of the validity of value-added models. Using administrative student data from New York City, we apply commonly estimated value-added models to an outcome teachers cannot plausibly affect: student height. We find the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading achievement, raising obvious questions about validity. Subsequent analysis finds these “effects” are largely spurious variation (noise), rather than bias resulting from sorting on unobserved factors related to achievement. Given the difficulty of differentiating signal from noise in real-world teacher effect estimates, this paper serves as a cautionary tale for their use in practice.

The term “values added” is anything that a school district believes is an effective form of “professional development” or a digitized tool to track student success. There are, as you can see and imagine, endless professional development methods and tools that exist to implement this. All of them are proven to be useless before their implementation or even creation, because it’s based on an evil lie, unbeknownst to the school employees and the parents themselves.

All of these tech programs and surveillance methods are also sold to districts and forcefully implemented by three-letter agencies under the guise of being “proven” to be successful in both compliance, and student and teacher effectiveness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. After all, it’s not student academic success they’re interesting in tracking. It’s their digital footprint.

TED Solutions.

TED Solutions is just another method that tracks and traces a students behavior and performance while also offering A.I. interventions if certain parameters are not met at any given time. It’s another A.I. system to track the student, all the way throughout high school and beyond, while tricking the main participants and readers of the program into believing that it’s they, the human (i.e., school employee) that are making these outcomes and suggestions for the student’s future. When in fact, it’s the digital A.I. analytic system that’s making the decision. The school staff member is simply repeating what the robot program tells them.

BUSBOSS.

There is also the GPS student-tracking system called, BUSBOSS. It isn’t good enough to have a child with a simple (non-smart) cell phone to contact a parent in an emergency, but now, school systems are claiming to be so safe that they actually need a GPS monitoring system to track your child’s whereabouts on a bus, to and from school.

This is an open admission that schools have no idea how to keep anyone safe in today’s world, as schools falsely continue to justify the implementation of such a digitized program by stating; “the times have changed and we must change with the times.”

SmartPass.

The term SMART in the digital-slave world, stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Most people don’t know this, let alone school employees. The SmartPass is equally as nefarious as the above programs, if not one of the more nefarious programs out there. This literally tracks the movement of a school-aged child within the school itself, and places time limits on their whereabouts in particular places.

Ironically enough, the video that once existed at the top of SmartPass’s website, was a July 24th, 2024 video from the very school district where I used to work. It highlights the high school where I used to work, that has now implemented this digital-tracking system for all students.

Now, every student has to wear this device or possess this device on their person. It’s mapping their whereabouts daily, to only be used against them for disciplinary reasons, yet no one seems to have a problem with this. SmartPass is also ubiquitous across America and it’s being sold as a deterrent to violent behavior, class tardiness and a reducer of discipline referrals. All of this is false.

The good lackeys within these school systems are blindly accepting and promoting this, because they’re paid to do so. School employees, in particular administrators, aren’t paid to think. They’re paid to do what they’re told.

As with all of the other programs mentioned, and endless others, they’re all sold as a method that saves time. This couldn’t be further from the truth. With everything that school employees and students do throughout a day, no wonder schools are academically failing and not teaching the truth. They don’t know what the truth is, and they don’t have time due to the techno-digital slavery walls that are closing in around them, as they allow all of this to happen.

They are the true useful idiots. They’re enslaving themselves and they don’t even know it.

Hopefully you can see how overwhelming the surveillance state has become, but also how overwhelming the stupidity is among those who actually believe that this digital-tracking and data-harvesting is a necessity for “academic success.”

As it turns out, many teachers are not pleased with these methods and the wasted time they bring with them. Many on reddit have said the following (and yes I know Reddit is super gay), but one teacher accurately stated:

Yeah, we were using a service last year (digital hall passes, like SmartPass). Honestly, it was a pain in my ass, since I don’t really have a portable device that will connect to the school wifi–I had to just leave my district-issued Chromebook open on my desk and hope that the website tab would chime if/when someone requested a pass. Then I’d have to stop whatever I was doing in the classroom to go back to my desk and approve their pass, and I had to remember to close out their pass when they got back from the bathroom, lest the service make it look like they were just roaming the halls for twenty minutes. I don’t think our site let you customize “If StudentA is on a pass, then StudentX cannot request a pass”, but that might be handy. Hall passes in general are annoying and disruptive, in my opinion. I don’t know of a good alternative, since every high school has a handful of students who can’t be trusted to go where they say they need to go and get back to class. I did not go into teaching because I was dying to be the potty police to damn-near-adults. I hate that that’s something I have to give mental space to.

Parents are also upset with these methods and know the hidden meaning behind them. One whom I text with, in a text thread of mutually minded people, stated the following regarding local schools in Texas:

A school here is now giving elementary kids an id card that if they need to use the restroom, they have to swipe a card in the classroom, they get put into a que and can go to the bathroom when it’s their time. It literally says that the card will keep track of how many times and when they go to the bathroom. How can any parent be ok with this? On top that, the school’s attendance policy listed in the student handbook says no absence is excused without a doctor’s note for each day missed. Now, legally, in the state this doesn’t hold up, the state says a child is only in danger if truancy if they miss 25% or more of classes in a single semester. But there are teachers telling the kids if they miss class and don’t have an actual Dr. note for each day missed, the teacher won’t allow them to make up any work. Call me paranoid but what an ingenious way to drum up business for healthcare.

They don’t call it bio-digital surveillance for nothing. Welcome to the wireless-body-area-network, and the internet of bodies.

I wonder if home-learning/home-schooling families are wasting their time using any of the above methods? I wonder if they’re safer from the global government that seeks to digitally track and enslave them, by not subjecting their children to this?

I think we know the answers.

In conclusion, mark my words, the American education (indoctrination) system will become more digitized in the future, because it has to, for a variety of reasons. The main reason has to do with a lack of money; and the only thing that fixes that are bodies in classrooms. This is solved, so they think, with the influx of illegal aliens. However, the reduction in teaching staff and the current legal American student population, and the well drying up in undergraduate teacher-education programs, are all contributing to the decline of the business.

The education business will ultimately be driven by AI-digital tools that only need to be facilitated by the mere presence of non-english speaking humans (i.e., illegal aliens), and the students and families who are foolish enough to send their children to these environments. The Illegals themselves will make up the majority of the brick-and-mortar school-environment student population in the future, thereby driving out native English-speaking legal Americans. This is already happening.

This is the great replacement in the “education” system in America, and the digital tools that are being implemented are laying the foundation for this long-term plan to be a reality. This is what “COVID” and “contact tracing” was all about, and this is only a part of what’s inside that trojan horse.