BUREAUCRATS SPY ON PEOPLE BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM FEEL POWERFUL. ANY OTHER BENEFITS (USUALLY MINOR OR NONEXISTENT) ARE SIDE EFFECTS. Schools Spy on Kids to Prevent Shootings, But There’s No Evidence It Works.

The best and safest way to prevent school shootings? Replace schools with something that works. But that threatens too many rice bowls, where as turning schools into Orwellian prisons does not.