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Tweeted a photograph of a school lunch meal consisting of Spanish rice and an apple with the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama (shown below): BackgroundIn 2014, public schools across the United States began serving lunch meals with revamped nutrition standards in accordance with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a federal statue signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2010 which introduced a series of new standards for food sold on school grounds, including allocation of resources for schools to offer fresh produce through local farms and gardens and improving the nutritional quality of food served in cafeterias. The nutritional standard reform has been often credited to Michelle Obama as it has been a central tenet of her anti-childhood obesity campaign Let's Move!.SpreadThroughout the following week in November, others students from public schools across the country began sharing photographs of their unappetizing-looking school lunch meals using the same hashtag. According to Topsy, #ThanksMichelleObama was mentioned more than 2,000 times in the month of November, which saw a huge spike in usage after BuzzFeed ran an article titled "Teens Are Sharing Gross Pictures Of Their School Lunches With The Hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama" on November 21st.Notable Examples Search Interest[not yet available]External ReferencesRelated Entries1totalRecent Videos3 totalRecent Images9 total Sign up for our Newsletter + Add a Comment

Been often credited to Michelle Obama as it has been a central tenet of her anti-childhood obesity campaign Let's Move!. SpreadThroughout the following week in November, others students from public schools across the country began sharing photographs of their unappetizing-looking school lunch meals using the same hashtag. According to Topsy, #ThanksMichelleObama was mentioned more than 2,000 times in the month of November, which saw a huge spike in usage after BuzzFeed ran an article titled "Teens Are Sharing Gross Pictures Of Their School Lunches With The Hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama" on November 21st. Notable Examples Search Interest[not yet available] External ReferencesPinRelated Entries1totalRecent Images9totalRecent Videos3total Sign up for our Newsletter Load 155 CommentsThis submission is currently being researched & evaluated!You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.About#ThanksMichelleObama is a satirical Twitter hashtag started by American high school student Hunter Whitney to highlight unappetizing photographs of public school meals in compliance with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s revamped guidelines for school lunches.OriginThe earliest known use of the hashtag on Twitter can be attributed to Jessie Livesay[7], a mother of three and a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, who tweeted a message expressing her disapproval of the "new healthy food laws" on August 30th, 2011. The first notable wave of #ThanksMichelleObama tweets took place in April 2014, though it didn't gain much traction until months later, on November 13th, when Hunter Whitney, a student at Richland Center High School in Richland Center, Wisconsin,

Said, “which is to say that the only way that the logic of it works is if we first accept that our children ought to be captured within a digital system, basically, from the time they're sentient until further notice.”Gaggle claims that its tool promotes a sense of “digital citizenship.” However, documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show that students often don’t understand that their work and communications are being surveilled until they violate the rules.“Sometimes, a frank talk about the proper use of a school-issued email account is enough to make students realize that emails are not private,” an email obtained from a school in St. Mary Parish in Louisiana says. “We've discovered that some students don't realize that they are using inappropriate language.” “These are children. They're supposed to be exploring and learning and have the ability to make mistakes.” Chris Gilliard, an English professor at Macomb Community College who studies privacy and inequality, told BuzzFeed News he believes that Gaggle’s definition of “citizenship” is misguided.“Teaching young people that you should exist online to the extent that you're palatable to companies, or future employers, I think is worrisome,” Gilliard said. “These are children. They're supposed to be exploring and learning and have the ability to make mistakes.”Gaggle told BuzzFeed News that it “recommends” school districts get permission from parents and students before they use the company’s tools to monitor them. It also provides a choice to opt out, but since it works with required school services (email accounts, etc.), it’s unclear how that would work.“If a student opts out of Gaggle, then they would not be able to use the school-provided technology and would have to use their personal email addresses for their school work — and that personal email would not be scanned by Gaggle,” a Gaggle spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. In other words, once a school district buys Gaggle services, students don’t have a school-friendly alternative.“Life saved”With suicide one of the leading causes of death for people under 18 and school shootings an ever-present concern, Gaggle’s student surveillance has a clear appeal to school administrators. While the federal government struggles to pass even elementary gun control, Gaggle is something schools can easily pay for. Gaggle is also a more toned-down option than, say, proposals from politicians to arm teachers or install armed police in schools. When a robust team of student counselors is financially impossible, and when

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Without long-term consequences for the students it promises to protect.Parents and caregivers have always monitored their kids. Sarah Igo, a professor of history at Vanderbilt University who studies surveillance and privacy, told BuzzFeed News, modern schools are often a de facto “training house for personhood.” But student surveillance services like Gaggle raise questions about how much monitoring is too much, and what rights minors have to control the ways that they’re watched by adults.“It just seems like maybe it teaches students some lessons, but not the ones we want them to learn,” Igo said.“Questionable content”Gaggle is one of the biggest players in today’s new economy of student surveillance, in which student work and behavior are scrutinized for indicators of violence or a mental health crisis, and profanity and sexuality are policed.“[There’s] a very consistent and long-standing belief that children have fewer rights to their own communications, and to their own inner thoughts and to their own practices,” Igo told BuzzFeed News.Gaggle uses an in-house, AI-powered filtering system to monitor everything that a student produces on their school account associated with Google’s G Suite or Microsoft’s 365 suite of tools. It scans student emails, documents, chats, and calendars, and compares what students write against a “blocked word list,” which contains profanity as well as references to self-harm, violence, bullying, or drugs. A Gaggle spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the list is regularly updated and “based on the language commonly used by children and adolescents for almost a decade.”The service also runs images uploaded by students through an “Anti-Pornography Scanner” (also proprietary and powered by AI). Gaggle, citing the sensitivity of its proprietary information, declined to tell BuzzFeed News how these tools were trained, answer questions about the original training sets, or say whether Gaggle’s AI tools learn based on what students put into G Suite and Microsoft 365.Among the many banned words and phrases on Gaggle’s list are "suicide," "kill myself," "want to die," "hurt me,” "drunk," and "heroin." Gaggle also commonly catches profanity — in 17 US school districts, about 80% of posts flagged by Gaggle within a particular school year were flagged for such words, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.Also on the list: LGBTQ-related words like "gay," "lesbian," and "queer." When asked whether the company provides LGBTQ sensitivity training to safety representatives, Gaggle said that it coaches them in how to separate "bias and personal opinion" from content