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Background

Ever since the eye opening attacks that happened on September 11, 2001, US Department of Defense has been at war for security and defense for the nation against terrorism. The National Security Agency surveillance has since been implemented to fight the War on Terrorism to try to intercept important information coming from overseas operations. NSA encountered controversy itself by conducting warrantless surveillance [1]. This is just the beginning of the illegal activities on the fight to prevent terrorism. It is now 2016 and the FBI is starting to dip in the hot waters of surveillance as they pertain to terrorism. The FBI plans to spy on High School Students across the country. The FBI wants to expel the thought of Extremism at High School because they believe kids are the ideal subjects to extremist groups [2].

Media Coverage

When this guideline was issued in January 2016 new outlets from all type of mediums were reporting about this hot bed subject. When you search FBI spying on high school students there are more than 6368000 results for this subject matter. Those search results are only about articles and don’t even include the thousands of videos or broadcast about this.

Effect

The major pressure point that the FBI is trying to alleviate is the thought of Islamic belief. These articles don’t specifically say the FBI is solely investigating the Islamic community but research has said that these type of in school spying have ended up “monitoring Muslim Students disproportionately.”[2] The focus of power is also a hot bed topic for this subject as it continually goes down if you are a student. The FBI guidelines are limiting students the freedom of expression and curiosity. Students are also being mistreated as they are now unable to go to teachers because these guidelines eliminate the trust between teachers and students. Teachers are also affected by these guidelines are they are the key source of surveillance. They are the ones that have to spy on students. The guideline written by the FBI is so poorly written and vague that teachers don’t know who the offenders of these guidelines are so they are unable to report someone or are stuck reporting the whole community. These guidelines also effect upper management like super intendants and principles. They are being continually pressured to decide what is right for the sake of the school and community.

Legality of Program

This guideline exists under the main assumption Muslims kids are curious of extreme ideology as well as carrying out those assumptions. These guidelines are creating ethical problems for administrators and school officials. Administrators and school officials by definition try to help and cater to the learning of students. And with these guidelines, they are pressed to prioritize safety against terrorism. It is important for them to keep these students safe as safety is the number 1 priority but the way they are intruding on these students are not right. Censorship of certain language to monitoring certain activities such as playing online games outside of school are all under the guideline of things that the FBI want to report as they could indicate some extreme thinking. The only things the guideline does for the public and the high schools put fear in the head people creating more tension and drama.

Prescriptive Guidelines

Some things media can do to eliminate extremely biased information is be respectful of all people of different backgrounds. Make sure you aren’t violating any laws. Don’t mix worlds – know the line between professional and personal [3].

Sources

1.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_Surveillance_Program

2.	http://projectcensored.org/14-fbis-new-plan-spy-high-school-students-across-country/

3.	http://www.afpnet.org/files/ContentDocuments/SocialMediaGuidelines_OnePage.pdf