Or, you know, you don't hide stuff and pretend the problem doesn't exist, but instead fix the issue. The kids have a right to due process, and to privacy as they are, after all, human. What is required here is for the adult parents, and students to push back together and to let the school know that this is unequivocally a bad approach.

The author points out that in different words that if the school is worried about bullying, etc, then the appropriate response is to protect first, not work out who to punish first.

Trying to come up with fake guis and hiding stuff is not how this sort of issue should be approached. The issue needs to be squashed, and firmly, so that it doesn't occur in the first place. Prevention is better than cure, or in the case of a fake gui, less than half a cure.

Thinking that there is a technical solution to invasion of basic rights is a fallacy that many hackers believe, that I also fall for quite often. In the end you might win the "this policy is ineffective, because there is a way to get around" argument short-term, but you loose the stronger "this policy is a violation of my (kids) established rights" argument long-term.

At the end the only way to win this cat & mouse game is to stand your ground before it starts.