Frankly, I’m horrified at the idea of someone with so little self-preservation that they would turn off the security cameras in a school bus. The person that camera most helps is the bus driver.
I work as a substitute teacher, and frankly I WISH we had cameras in the classrooms. The horror stories I’ve heard? Kids are not above making false allegations against teachers they don’t like. Hell, groups of them will collude to do so to bring down a teacher they don’t like. Some kids a are just psychos. (Or more charitably, they simply haven’t morally matured.)
I’ve been lucky to not have this happen to me, but sometimes kids will just straight-up lie to cover for their own bad behavior, or to get back at a teacher that dared to discipline them. With regular teachers, they usually have enough protections to require a formal investigation. But with substitutes? Often schools or districts will just fire a sub and not think twice of it, even when an allegation is completely ridiculous. It’s easier to make the sub disappear than to thoroughly investigate a claim.
I WISH I had cameras in my classrooms. As a substitute, it would allow the teacher to directly see the kind of behavior their kids engage in while away, and to discipline the troublemakers accordingly. For regular teachers, it would both prevent false allegations and also prevent litigious parents of disruptive students from working the system. Plenty of parents think so little of teachers that they will believe a lying 6th grader over an adult, trained, and licensed teacher.
I wouldn’t feel any lack of privacy as a teacher from having cameras right in the classroom. I already have to deal with many eyes on me all day long. I work every day knowing I have to be careful with what I say or how I act.
I can understand why the students wouldn’t want cameras in the classroom. The bad kids don’t want accountability and everyone wants a little privacy. But for the school employee? It’s baffling to me why you wouldn’t want your workplace recorded. One false accusation can ruin your entire career.
I hear you, its very bad you need to think about this, nothing justifies cameras in the classroom. or on the bus. no companies can be reasonably trusted with handling the recordings and the access responsibly. none of them do that, everyone is going for the cheapest sloppiest solution, not caring for if the recordings are uploaded to a company dealing in even facial recognition database development.
I hear you, its very bad you need to think about this, nothing justifies cameras in the classroom. or on the bus. no companies can be reasonably trusted with handling the recordings and the access responsibly. none of them do that, everyone is going for the cheapest sloppiest solution, not caring for if the recordings are uploaded to a company dealing in even facial recognition database development.
Frankly, I’m horrified at the idea of someone with so little self-preservation that they would turn off the security cameras in a school bus. The person that camera most helps is the bus driver.
I work as a substitute teacher, and frankly I WISH we had cameras in the classrooms. The horror stories I’ve heard? Kids are not above making false allegations against teachers they don’t like. Hell, groups of them will collude to do so to bring down a teacher they don’t like. Some kids a are just psychos. (Or more charitably, they simply haven’t morally matured.)
I’ve been lucky to not have this happen to me, but sometimes kids will just straight-up lie to cover for their own bad behavior, or to get back at a teacher that dared to discipline them. With regular teachers, they usually have enough protections to require a formal investigation. But with substitutes? Often schools or districts will just fire a sub and not think twice of it, even when an allegation is completely ridiculous. It’s easier to make the sub disappear than to thoroughly investigate a claim.
I WISH I had cameras in my classrooms. As a substitute, it would allow the teacher to directly see the kind of behavior their kids engage in while away, and to discipline the troublemakers accordingly. For regular teachers, it would both prevent false allegations and also prevent litigious parents of disruptive students from working the system. Plenty of parents think so little of teachers that they will believe a lying 6th grader over an adult, trained, and licensed teacher.
I wouldn’t feel any lack of privacy as a teacher from having cameras right in the classroom. I already have to deal with many eyes on me all day long. I work every day knowing I have to be careful with what I say or how I act.
I can understand why the students wouldn’t want cameras in the classroom. The bad kids don’t want accountability and everyone wants a little privacy. But for the school employee? It’s baffling to me why you wouldn’t want your workplace recorded. One false accusation can ruin your entire career.
No, the person that camera helps the most is the one that sells footage to AI companies for training data.
I hear you, its very bad you need to think about this, nothing justifies cameras in the classroom. or on the bus. no companies can be reasonably trusted with handling the recordings and the access responsibly. none of them do that, everyone is going for the cheapest sloppiest solution, not caring for if the recordings are uploaded to a company dealing in even facial recognition database development.
I hear you, its very bad you need to think about this, nothing justifies cameras in the classroom. or on the bus. no companies can be reasonably trusted with handling the recordings and the access responsibly. none of them do that, everyone is going for the cheapest sloppiest solution, not caring for if the recordings are uploaded to a company dealing in even facial recognition database development.