Just The News: A decade after the movement to place body cameras on police officers, some Missouri parents are pressing to put cameras in the classroom so they can see what educators are teaching their children.
The nascent movement began a few weeks ago in Springfield, Mo., with a meeting of conservative activists and parents upset by curriculum informed by critical race theory. And now it is spreading to the state Capitol, where some lawmakers said they could be open to the idea.
“I think that COVID just opened the window to what was going on in the classroom,” explained Marilyn Quigley, a retired teacher with four decades of experience in the classroom. “And students were getting involved with parents, parents were trying to help students, and suddenly some of them said, ‘What are you being taught.’ And then all of this then came out. more
This will stop a lot of teacher’s crap. A good measure until they break up the Teachers union monopoly.
If this is implemented, I predict a sea change in our education system. It will be almost impossible to get it started, but it was resisted by the police and police departments at the beginning, too.
There are still good, smart, prepared teachers in classrooms, but they seem to have fallen into the minority. This kind of accountability would raise the standards quicker than any other way I can imagine.
Sweet……
Excellent idea.
Teacher’s Union. We are overdue for a Parents Union! In my case it’s a Grandparents Union. The trouble with that is grandparents have almost no rights when it comes to our grandkids.
Wow, this is going to totally ruin young men poking their teachers. Not cool. LOL
Put one on a student and watch the school admin freak out.
This is a “no brainer.” They work for the citizenry and the citizens have a right to know exactly what they are paying for.
Every classroom, every day, every minute. Attempts to circumvent the camera by teachers should be cause for immediate and permanent dismissal. No pension.
It does sound like a good way to know what is going on in the classroom, but imagine for a moment a 24/7 camera turned on you in your kitchen — or wherever you tend to be in your house most of your waking time. And the camera wouldn’t just be recording the teachers, it would also be recording our children.
Before we go headlong into a quick fix to hold SOME teachers accountable, it should be understood that being surveilled — especially when we are aware of being watched — has deeper, “unintended” consequences for humans. Where else are people constantly surveilled? That’s right, prison. Prison is a place where the incarcerated have forfeited their rights (albeit though their own bad decisions) to the people who sit at the montiors. We have to ask, don’t we, if the people watching are any more saintly than those being watched? Presumably the watchers are *supposed* to be the arbiters of the watched behavior. Suddenly we are in the world of meta justice where individual actions and behaviors could be judged by *some* to be *bad*. And where there existed no law concerning that *bad* behavior, we may have many “Karen-ish” outcries for new legislation. So where does it end?!
You know, China has the perfect model of a panopticon society. It changes people. It creates what some call a “passive fear”, and it molds their paranoia into what their government wants them to be — eradicating who they are or could be.
Too much more to say than I want to write here. But I see all these comments about “damn straight!” and wonder why no one has quoted Orwell: “Big Brother is Watching You!”
Do we really want to be the start of the generations who grew up being constantly watched? I don’t. There must be a way of changing the content of education without putting our kids under surveillance.
…and whatever happened to the victory of a superior argument? So we identify anti-American teachers and their rhetoric. Then what? If graduated adults are holding jobs in classrooms where they force indoctrination on our children, I’d say the problem (and the can) has been kicked so far down the road at that point, it’s like trying to put out a burning barn with an eye dropper. Better to look at the universities’ schools of ed (or scrap the current public schools entirely) before going down the cameras-in-classrooms road.
I love this idea! No more hiding what they’re really doing from parents, including the “Toobins”.