Philadelphia to make digital hall pass and student tracking system available at all schools

Chalkbeat reports that Philadelphia's school district is making a digital hall pass available at all schools for the upcoming year. Students ask to leave class through their Chromebooks, and once a teacher approves, their route is logged on a hall monitor grid for staff and climate workers. The system can block students from areas with safety risks and automatically keep students in conflict from being in the hallway at the same time. It's designed to prevent physical violence, a real concern in the city — police data shows about five hundred fifty assaults on school campuses each year between twenty twenty-one and twenty twenty-five. But some worry about over-surveillance, and the union representing school climate staff says the tablets could distract them from watching for fights.

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