[elfman2]

" There is absolutely no reason why this is a good idea. "

- Flushes out incompetent and lazy teachers and highlights the good ones,
- Helps ID best practices for teacher training,
- Enables parental evolvement,
- Creates a record bad student behavior,

[dr_who_2]

Flushes out incompetent and lazy teachers and highlights the good ones,
How a teacher performs in front of a camera tells you absolutely nothing about how good a teacher is, especially if there's no audio and the kids are trying as hard as the teacher is to look like they're paying attention.

Helps ID best practices for teacher training
Sure, hours and hours of video taped performances by professional teachers will supplement the mindless pablum they get when they're studying reeeeel hard for their teaching certificate.
Enables parental evolvement
...if your parent is kind of pillar of society that is fond of watching taped episodes of Jerry Springer.

Creates a record bad student behavior

...that will be filed away in a huge database until five years after said bad student has dropped out of school or ended up in jail for murdering another student.

[vpintheak]

More tax dollars needed, more tax dollars wasted. Who is going to pay for this? Are you willing to give up more of your paycheck to solve a problem that really doesn't need solving? There may be few instances where this may help, but its not worth it. This only leads to more government intervention into lives of the citizen. Public schools are a mouthpiece for, and a strong tool of the statists, period. We shouldn't be enabling them destroy our liberties.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Creates a record bad student behavior"

Good point. Parents could sue the school when they ignore dangerous or disruptive behacior of others.