Should a school district be able to monitor students via remote access to laptops?

A school district, in suburban Philadelphia, issued laptops to their students. The district has the ability to use remote access, at any time of the day or night. This includes turning on the web-cam, while the students are in their homes.

They said remote access is only for locating a “stolen” laptop, but one student filed suit, after he was accused of “improper behavior” by a school administrator, who used a picture of him, taken from his laptop, as “proof” of this activity.

Do you think a school should be able to monitor students, outside of school related activity?

Click here to read a CBS article, about the lawsuit.