Should there be mandatory CCTV cameras in schools to protect both teachers and pupils?
I feel strongly that cameras are needed as some teachers as well as pupils can behave very badly and get away with it as they believe that they are untouchable. My son has been bullied by both staff and pupils, but the school won’t do anything about it, regardless of the fact that he has many witnesses. There are a couple of cameras, none in the classrooms, and even though an incident occured in a corridor where there was CCTV, the school refused to even check the camera for evidence! The Education Department are very unhelpful, what else can i do?
3 Responses to “Should there be mandatory CCTV cameras in schools to protect both teachers and pupils?”
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June 5th, 2008 at 6:07 am
If your son is having problems with that many different people, you ought to deal with him first.
It’s not helping him to blame all these others and to believe everything he tells you. Firstly, he’ll never learn the social skills needed to get on in the adult world. Secondly, it seems he’s already learnt that he can control you and get you to believe anything he says.
Good parenting doesn’t mean defending him when he’s in the wrong. It means helping him to apologise and put things right in the future.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Yes. Unfortunately the times have changed and safety should be number one. I think the camera’s should be monitered by a public dept. other than the school to prevent bias.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Yes,I have said that there should be cameras in schools for some time now. Our daughter is a teacher and she comments on how many classes can be just crowd control. Luckily it is only a very small number of kids who upset the running of the class but the parents don’t believe that their ‘angel’ can possibly be doing wrong. Show them the tape then get the parents to sort out their unruly kids. It can also be a safeguard for the kids as if a teacher or another pupil miss treats them then the culprit can be seen on tape with no arguments.