<p>When the story about New York came out, it sounded like someone came up with the idea for this database with a for profit angle. Knowing Bill Gates spent 100 million as a non-profit venture, I am more inclined to believe it started as an altruistic venture. </p>
<p>People have databases of students names and addresses which broaches on privacy but most people don’t care. If one had a kid who was disciplined in school, or has a kid with ADD or ADHD etc, do they want that information accessible to some company somewhere selling educational products? What if colleges start requesting the disciplinary records since they are in this database anyway or even the ADHD records which SAT testing currently does not track on the score sheet?</p>
<p>At some point will employers be able to get this info using background checks?</p>