SAN ANTONIO --One local school district is now using technology to increase campus safety. Students at Harlandale schools can now alert school officials to problems on campus with an anonymous E-mail or a text from their cell phones.
In the Harlandale ISD, they are training students to use an anonymous Internet messaging system called "Talk About It."
The software lets students e-mail or text a teacher or an administrator. Students can report problems ranging from bullying, cheating and drugs on campus.
Harlandale ISD student Michael Dominguez says, “I think it is very important because students can speak their mind to anybody. There are resources and there's helpful people that you can talk to anonymously.”
The district hopes this will allow student to reach out for help or speak up.
“If there's drugs on a campus, if there's a weapon on a campus, if there's anything above and beyond, we want to make sure our students have a voice to tell us about that,” Harlandale Spokesperson Pete Barcenez says.
Harlandale paid about $20,000 for the software system which is being installed in all its schools. Several other districts are also looking at using it.
