[Natural Law]

Are you nuts? A classroom is supposed to be a public setting. I for one want to see what is (or is not) going on inside that classroom. The ability to remotely monitor what is happening in my childs classrrom and what is or is not being taught would be a major benefit to all concerned parents.

[elbucko]

A classroom is supposed to be a public setting.

Exactly. If a parent, with suitable notice, can sit in the classroom during their childs instruction, I see no violation of privacy with a web cam. The idea may bother civil libertarians, but I'm not moved by their protests until they are as outraged about the quality of public education as they are about bogus privacy in a public institution.

[Centurion2000]

The ability to remotely monitor what is happening in my childs classrrom and what is or is not being taught would be a major benefit to all concerned parents

You honestly think they will give parents the option of watching these things ?