Backflip over Australian online student database
THE controversial OneSchool online student database is being watered down after a public backlash against its instigator, Education Queensland.
School principals are leading the erosion, with one northside Brisbane primary school principal writing to parents advising them that photos of students do not need to be posted on their profiles.
The photos were, according to Education Queensland, to be posted along with students' academic performance, career aspirations and extra curricular activities. The move follows Education Minister Rod Welford's defence of OneSchool when he dismissed the idea that hackers would target the database of nearly half-a-million students as "ridiculous, extreme and hypothetical".
