Recently, Montclair High School purchased a software program called "GoGuardian" which effectively violates the rights and privacy of its users. GoGuardian is a tool that "is a classroom management tool for Chromebooks. It allows teachers to see what is on the screen of every student in their classroom. They can see the active tab the student is currently working on, as well as any other tab in the browser. These tabs can be sites, documents, games, etc., that may be open but not in use."
To summarize, they would be able to see:
-the browser history of users
-viewing history of users on sites like YouTube
-search history of users
-location of users
-what apps and extensions users are active on
-login time of users
-IP address of users
Due to the software working through Google school accounts, it is virtually impossible for students to receive an education during this time without having their privacy violated. Banking information, medical information and general private content on user's computer can visible to not only the school, but GoGuardian. In an age of data being mined and sold, teachers and students alike have profound concern around the genuine privacy of having this software active on computers. Please join us in the fight for the cybersecurity for Montclair High School's staff and students.
Updates
January 16, 2026
Seeing 500 signatures on this page is honestly overwhelming because I honestly did not think this many people would care about this issue. You all are the ones who turned this into a real conversation that cannot be ignored. I am just so grateful that you decided to put your name behind this.
Reached 500 supporters
January 13, 2026
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2023
409 Comments
goguardian is invading my privacy even if I'm at home its monitoring me bro what if I'm like changing and its looking at my webcam its so bad and then it blocks github pages which I use for coding stuff
After 5 they completely lock down our Chromebooks, barely allowing us to even do work, they still do this over weekends and breaks. It has probably already logged me going to this site.
Spyware, blah blah blah, you already know that it is a complete slap in the face to the basic necessity of privacy for children. My school hasn’t blocked any websites, but they spy on us and it makes me feel unbearably uncomfortable knowing that my data WILL get out there when a data breach happens in like a year.
It's so annoying to have someone watching every move on the chromebook! I always to my work and a teacher will say SMTH like "get of online shopping" when I'm closing the tab from before!
GoGuardian is an invansion of privacy and restricts the rights of students while managing to stay under the radar of the government. It blocks certain websites and apps that are completely appropriate for school and teachers have the ability to view everything that you do online on the chromebook. GoGuardian violates students' rights.
go garudian is buns they be camping all day even when school is out it don't be make no new sense
I am signing the petitions so that my teachers can stop me at riding on go garudian and do thier job and grade the work that they nagg me about but then when I turn it in they don't grade anything. they are on go garudian mor then grading my work
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Recently, Montclair High School purchased a software program called "GoGuardian" which effectively violates the rights and privacy of its users. GoGuardian is a tool that "is a classroom management tool for Chromebooks. It allows teachers to see what is on the screen of every student in their classroom. They can see the active tab the student is currently working on, as well as any other tab in the browser. These tabs can be sites, documents, games, etc., that may be open but not in use."
To summarize, they would be able to see:
-the browser history of users
-viewing history of users on sites like YouTube
-search history of users
-location of users
-what apps and extensions users are active on
-login time of users
-IP address of users
Due to the software working through Google school accounts, it is virtually impossible for students to receive an education during this time without having their privacy violated. Banking information, medical information and general private content on user's computer can visible to not only the school, but GoGuardian. In an age of data being mined and sold, teachers and students alike have profound concern around the genuine privacy of having this software active on computers. Please join us in the fight for the cybersecurity for Montclair High School's staff and students.
Updates
January 16, 2026
Seeing 500 signatures on this page is honestly overwhelming because I honestly did not think this many people would care about this issue. You all are the ones who turned this into a real conversation that cannot be ignored. I am just so grateful that you decided to put your name behind this.
Reached 500 supporters
January 13, 2026
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2023
409 Comments
I guess I can understand their frustration with the kids being on other websites to find answers to questions etc. But at the end of the day, this is obviously not the correct remedy. I wrote to Pods, but he is not budging. Does anybody know if there is a feature to disable the function, there must be, I would think?
goguardian is invading my privacy even if I'm at home its monitoring me bro what if I'm like changing and its looking at my webcam its so bad and then it blocks github pages which I use for coding stuff
After 5 they completely lock down our Chromebooks, barely allowing us to even do work, they still do this over weekends and breaks. It has probably already logged me going to this site.
Spyware, blah blah blah, you already know that it is a complete slap in the face to the basic necessity of privacy for children. My school hasn’t blocked any websites, but they spy on us and it makes me feel unbearably uncomfortable knowing that my data WILL get out there when a data breach happens in like a year.
It's so annoying to have someone watching every move on the chromebook! I always to my work and a teacher will say SMTH like "get of online shopping" when I'm closing the tab from before!
GoGuardian is an invansion of privacy and restricts the rights of students while managing to stay under the radar of the government. It blocks certain websites and apps that are completely appropriate for school and teachers have the ability to view everything that you do online on the chromebook. GoGuardian violates students' rights.
go garudian is buns they be camping all day even when school is out it don't be make no new sense
I am signing the petitions so that my teachers can stop me at riding on go garudian and do thier job and grade the work that they nagg me about but then when I turn it in they don't grade anything. they are on go garudian mor then grading my work
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I guess I can understand their frustration with the kids being on other websites to find answers to questions etc. But at the end of the day, this is obviously not the correct remedy. I wrote to Pods, but he is not budging. Does anybody know if there is a feature to disable the function, there must be, I would think?