A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools
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Motherboard identified multiple schools that have adopted e-HallPass to track students' movements.
Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard e-HallPass, a digital system that students have to use to request to leave their classroom and which takes note of how long they’ve been away, including to visit the bathroom, has spread into at least a thousand schools around the United States. The system has some resemblance to the sort of worker monitoring carried out by Amazon , which tracks how long its staff go to the toilet for, and is used to penalize workers for “time off task.” It also highligh
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