An article in the Smoky Mountain News complains about students’ use of Smartphone apps. The tale is told of another game of cat and mouse. The story is the same, only the names have been changed. It seems school administrators are disappointed because every strategy they develop to snoop into whether kids are viewing porn – or whatever the administration may deem unacceptable, say, reading an online version of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative – is countered by a workaround app. Of course, the commonsense recommendation would be to cultivate a sense of pro-community consciousness in the schools, teaching children through ethics and such about how being kind helps everybody pursue personal edification less encumbered. Unfortunately, kindness is probably considered too religious a notion for schools to address, so we have a war on apps.