This is just their school issued Ipad. They'd hopefully have a personal computing device of some sort that they'd be free to do what they want on. Assuming they don't have helicopter parents who have to control every aspect of their kids lives, then they're just screwed.

Right -- it's the school's iPad, and they can set the terms of use.

Do schools still have libraries? They did when I went, and you can be sure they curated the set of books in the catalog and kept records of who checked out which ones.

Even the public libraries started disclosing checkout history to agencies with the advent of the PATRIOT act.

On the positive side, maybe there will be an entire generation of kids who learn in school the importance of using your own devices instead of devices issued to you and owned by others when you do things that you wish to keep private.

Better to learn that lesson in school, when the mistakes that teach it to you will be confined to your juvenile records, than to learn it as an adult when it can follow you for the rest of your life.

You mean like Social Media has already done to two generations? LOL

If anything, more people reshare criticism more publicly than ever, even as they are being surveilled.

Admittedly, the difference is that our society thinks it's OK to punish kids and teenagers to make them get in line. That's the actual problem and the solution is not to have them hide their thoughts as much as to respect them more as human beings.

Well, punishment rarely works as a method of education/parenting, and even if it does it's practically assured to not be the most effective method. Of course, some people remain who think even corporal punishment is OK for kids, but then again those are the kind of person you wish don't have kids anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I grew up with the knowledge that everything I did was monitored, given the nature of my parents employment.

All it led to was a lifetime of learning how to improve my opsec and now I work in the field myself.

Continuous improvement!