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Today’s question:
QUESTION: In order to protect both the teachers and the students, do you think all classrooms should have video cameras?
Talk about it.
Cameras don’t protect/prevent crimes; for example, look at stores and houses with cameras and you see that the criminals still steal from the places. Having an armed personnel (school resource officer) is the key for protection. Or we can arm all the teachers and library staffs (the staffs get guns with silencers)
Isn’t every kid already carrying one?
A camera or a gun?
The schools take them away.
They take the phones but the guns they get to keep on their person.
Take away the phones and reinstate corporal punishment, and yes put cameras in the rooms to show parents what pathetic little people some of them are raising
Keep your comments about people’s kids to yourself. You have NO RIGHT to call them “pathetic little people”. You display your disrespectful, rude and intrusive character elsewhere.
You forgot the (Sarc) Some people here won’t get it.
Really? They are pathetic little people. They are rude, disrespectful, and down right assish. They destroy what ever they put their hands on if it does not belong to them. Just walk through Costco on a Saturday and see for yourself!
Yes
Good to have proof of it’s a great class or a poor class.
Great if a student becomes aggressive or if a teacher is failing.
As a parent I can make sure that my child is in class and behaving appropriately.
Helicopter
In my experience, it has been the teachers behaving inappropriately. At least in white/ upper SES schools. We need cameras to prevent the teachers from being inappropriate.
From time you walk out of your residence until you get back figure you are on camera.
Dash cams, CCTV systems, boxy looking things with a lense on traffic lights, license plate readers, walking from your vehicle to a big box store, while shopping and back to your vehicle.
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IF video surveillance is ever installed in classrooms there needs to be very strict and specific guidelines. Storage of video should be on an air gaped system. (No connection to internet)
Guns are not the answer.
Cameras will not prevent anything
Cameras can be used to prosecute the punk who assaults a teacher or protect a teacher for false claims. However that only works IF our government will prosecute and throw these punks into hard jail time.
If we will prosecute and punish the punks, I am all for cameras in the classroom.
If we are not going to do squat with the video, and this is just pandering to look good, find something else to put your money into.
Live video? No.
Recorded video is fine. It should work like a dash cam where video is recorded weekly in a continuous loop and saved to a hard drive or Cloud. Then automatically erased if not flagged to save.
No, there are already too many government funded cameras spying on us in the name of “safety.” Cameras pose a significant threat to privacy and free speech, and they do not reduce crime. The cameras that have been installed on public streets and parks are without regulations and with little or no public debate. It’s a liberal concept, and I do not trust liberals.
yes, public space. Protect both students and teachers from “He said, she said” It is not spying it is school “like body cameras” “takes the stupid out” If the teacher is being a jerk or the student is it would be there for the courts to decide. I do not believe it should be live for everyone to see but in the case of an incident it should be record. Yes I know everyone will boo-hoo but it is a public space not your home. It should be legal use not for the Karen’s out there looking for something to complain about and not for parent teacher conferences where opinion on how things (subjection) is stressed. The bad part is I know this would be 100% abused so laws would have to define it. sad we are here
Most school classrooms do have cameras what kind of question is this?
But I’ll answer the question anyway yes they should have cameras!
School classrooms full of minor children, should have zero-to very little need for Privacy!. K-12 public school teachers should teach their subject, have open discussions, on the subject, and force-feed no “personal opinion outside that subject” So….my opinion.
And anyway~~didn’t we -MDUSD- settle the question, AND PAY FOR cameras in classrooms after the David Martin fiasco and legal battle? And BTW… is he still in lockup? Or has the whole new trend of public-strutting of LGBTQiabc and NAMBLA gotten him a get out of jail free card?
qhat is wrong with our youth of today? Cameras were never needed when most of us were growing up back in the day. Life was simple and fum. Teach morals and anger management , so teavhers can do heir jobs stress free.
Ooops, Joseph Martin… apologies to all the David’s out there.
I’m sure pedophiles & stalkers would love cameras in the classroom.
Probably have to keep it offline & just use video for reference when incidents occur.
If you acclimate kids to cameras, they won’t even question them when they are adults. Is this the kind of world we want?
A million cameras won’t make the world safer if we don’t have a shared sense of morals and an uncorrupted justice system.
Yoyohop, look at how many adults are voting yes, and they weren’t acclimated to cameras as a child. It boggles my mind how many people are OK with whatever the government does “for our own good,” without batting an eye. In the late 60s, there was a saying, “question authority.” The government is slowly taking away our rights, and nobody questions it. I think we should all question authority.
I’m conflicted on this subject and have never heard any argument pro or con that has helped me decide. After reading all the comments so far, I’m still in the same boat.
I was a SEA and cameras are needed. Password protected just like every program the students need for school. Times are a changing, keep up. Hiding your heads in the sand is foolish. Be aware and monitor.