Sad. When I was a kid my mom just employed a little birdie who told her what I was doing.
Now there’s NO crime in Britain right?
I don’t understand the upset.
If you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s the problem?
Only the criminal need be concerned.
That according to a bunch of Freepers.
It would be impossible to describe all the ways in which this is stupid. No doubt, someone is saying that "if it makes just one child safer ...", but I can't imagine that cameras in the classroom are a cost effective means of doing that. As for interfering with teaching, I doubt that a teacher who minds being watched would be any better without the cameras. I've had quite a few visitors in my classroom, and except for occasionally asking them to be quieter (they get into loud, off-topic conversations with each other, and I don't permit that from my students or from my guests) I ignore them and don't do anything differently when I'm being watched. I like having cameras in the halls and outside, to catch the occasional vandal, but the number required for classrooms is too high for the cost to be reasonable.