Not a bit of what I said. A sensible school district, however, would have known better than to take pictures remotely with the laptop knowing that all they had to do was accidentally get a picture of a teen girl with her shirt off and they’d be in big, big trouble.
Reasonable expectations of privacy, and such. A kid who strips naked in the middle of the mall is going to have a hard time suing the mall security folks for the surveillance vids. A kid at home in her bedroom with her school-issued laptop will reasonably expect privacy.
Not to mention FORCING every kid in the school to use a laptop that had this technology available is just not right. According to other stories, students using personal laptops had them confiscated, students who tried to put sticky notes over the camera almost got expelled - this whole situation stinks. Have you see the video with the school technical admin raving about this technology? As a professional, I suggest you read http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2458270/posts - it’s fascinating.
Sounds more like you need to not let your kids have laptops in their bedrooms.
Standing rule at my house is that the kids will only use computers in the common areas of the house. Specifically to curtail "naughty" behavior on the computers.
It's called "good parenting".