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School leaflet asks college students to jot down down, flip of their social media passwords

It’s essential for everybody in right now’s world, particularly children, to concentrate on the hazards of scams and giving out personal info.

But what do you do when the one asking for that non-public info is an official doc out of your college?

That’s what occurred not too long ago at a junior highschool in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward, which reached the eye of the Internet from this tweet:

▼ (Translation beneath)

“Excuse me what? This is so silly and such a violation of rights that I’ve no phrases.

On a leaflet that was despatched dwelling with center schoolers that they have been advised to make use of “to discuss house rules for social media,” and “to turn in to their school when finished,” there’s a piece for them to fill of their “social media password.”

What are they pondering?!

This is an excessive abuse of authority and an invasion of non-public area.”

Many on-line have posted pictures of the leaflet in query, exhibiting that this wasn’t some easy typo or something, it’s fairly blatant:

▼ The line in query is the fourth clean down.

(Translation beneath)

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Our House Rules for Social Media

Easy Fill-In Sheet

Usage Time

I’ll use my smartphone and social media for _____ hour(s) every day.

I’ll use my smartphone and social media till _____ o’clock every day.

Storage Place

After then, I’ll put it away in _____.

How It’s Managed

The password to my social media is _____.

I share this password with _____ (ie: my household).

The Nerima Ward Board of Education has since responded to the controversy, saying that they handed out the leaflets to college students for households to create guidelines for social media, and requested the scholars to show them again in to the college to examine that they have been crammed in.

However, the Board of Education notified every college in Nerima Ward saying that college students ought to flip within the leaflet with out filling within the password part. Unfortunately one college didn’t obtain that clarification, leading to 276 college students turning it in as-is. There have been no reviews of such a mistake occurring within the different colleges.

The Board of Education has stated that they’ll stop such incidents sooner or later by deleting the password part, storing the leaflets that have been already turned in inside a “locked up location,” and returning them straight to every household. So far they declare that no passwords have been leaked.

Of course that’s a really unusual clarification. If college students have been meant to show within the leaflet with out filling in that clean… then why was it there within the first place? If college students have been speculated to convey it again dwelling once more and then fill it in, there’s no point out of that. And even when that was the case, writing down your password is what you study by no means to do in Internet Safety 101 it doesn’t matter what anyway!

Japanese netizens have been equally confused and shocked:

“I don’t understand why they asked the kids to turn it in in the first place. Their Internet literacy is lower than the kids’ is.”

“Do not fill that in, do not turn that in, do not share it.”

“We’re taught not to leak our passwords, but as soon as you turn it in to the school, it’s leaked….”

“Did Internet literacy just stop progressing 10 years ago???”

“The only correct answer is writing ‘Our house rule for social media is not writing my password here’ in the blank.”

“Schools are trying to control their private lives. Just like Kanagawa trying to limit kids’ time playing games.”

“The only way I can see this being okay is if it’s a trick question, and when the students turn in the leaflets with their passwords on it, the teacher admonishes them, saying, ‘Didn’t we teach you not to tell anyone your password?’ (Obviously not what happened)”

Hopefully no irreparable injury comes from this incident, and the Nerima Ward Board of Education learns from their mistake.

Source: Bengo4.com by way of Hachima Kiko

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