Cool I guess
It’s like
Decent.
Pain
It’s ok
Good idea hated
Best app
Hi
Awesome FPS
Reeeee
This really won’t work at all, what were y’all thinking??
People can still make a report in person and ask to keep themselves anonymous if there’s actually a serious threat.
Also, have you guys ever thought about taking graphic design? It looks like you took the entire concept of good design and threw it out the window.
Thaaaaaanks, iSnitch.
Uh yeah no
bad
Not anonymous
Useless
Terrible idea.
It’s meh
So done with life 4 ever KMS
Thot 🅱️unter
Good idea, more developing
I’ll let you in on an inside joke
This app is a huge inside joke to everyone that goes to school in the Humble school district. No, really, I’m not kidding.
The reason I’m sending in this review is because, to be honest, I don’t want to see people’s actual lives messed with over a thoughtless joke. Yes, I do think it’s funny to send in a fake report of your friend claiming that he boasted that he was going to “shoot up the school” only to laugh as he’s being interrogated by angry cops, but in all honesty I’m not going to let myself stand by and allow that sort of thing to really happen to somebody. Even if it is sort of funny, which I think it is, there’s also a lot of harm that can be done with this sort of tool when it’s in the wrong hands. Seriously, whoever thought “we need to create an app where we allow high school students to send in completely anonymous reports on other high school students to have them immediately detained and searched” needs to have his or her position re-evaluated. I’m not kidding. And not only that, I’m honestly more amazed that an entire team of seasoned educators-keep in mind, all college educated adults-willingly went into a room together, sat down, evaluated the pros and cons of the app, thought it over for a while, and finally came together after a healthy amount of consideration and serious thought and concluded, “yeah, sounds like a great idea”. Did no-one think that this might cause any sort of issue whatsoever?
Now I’m not saying that we should eliminate every resource we have that allows students to feel safe and freely communicate about other students with faculty members, I actually think that what the app is trying to accomplish is a noble goal and should be applauded, but you can’t accomplish it by placing the power of an armed police force directly into the hands of 16 year olds who know how to stay anonymous on the internet. If you have a problem with a student or you have something to say to one of the faculty members then you should go to your counselor and talk to them, or better yet just drop a note by their door. Still perfectly anonymous, still just as effective, but you eliminate the prospect of students reporting other students for bogus reasons just because they can. The internet is completely built around anonymity and you can’t just find people as easily as you assume. You think students don’t use VPNs? You think students don’t know how to hide their IP through torbrowser/Tails? Good luck finding someone’s IP if they file a report through tor and they’re using tails or some other VPN that doesn’t track logs. Even if you do manage to get ahold of their isp their isp won’t have anything to give you because they won’t have any logs on record whatsoever from their IP. Literally all you need to do is download tor and then add tails as your tor vpn and you basically disappear, it probably takes 5 minutes and it’s very easy(I think I’ve probably spelled this out enough).
I really hope that the Humble ISD genuinely reconsiders the scope and impact that this app has on the student body and I hope they take a hard look at its potential implications. I don’t think that the app is at all ill-intentioned or inherently dysfunctional, I just think that when you take an instrument that needs to be taken seriously and give it to people who don’t take anything seriously, it’s probably not going to be taken seriously. In my opinion, I think you’d be better off discarding the whole thing.
Sincerely,
A student of humble isd

