After success of police body cams, parents campaign for cameras to monitor teach

[Ptarmigan]

After success of police body cams, parents campaign for cameras to monitor teacher lessons
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/tueafter-success-police-body-cams-parents-campaign-cameras-teachers

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.

Why not.

[enslaved1]

After success of police body cams, parents campaign for cameras to monitor teacher lessons
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/tueafter-success-police-body-cams-parents-campaign-cameras-teachers

Why not.

Why not?  Because kids and parents can be manipulative, tape can be carefully edited and released just to incite the masses, context can be removed from words and actions....

Most bodycams, to my knowledge are activated by something, radio call, button push, voices, ect.  They are ready to go at all times, but not recording at all times.  In class cameras will be running through the whole day, leaving teachers and students exposed to constant misinterpretation or unheard/off camera words and actions.

My wife teaches SPED.  The district has decided our SPED rooms need cameras.  She has students who need to be restrained sometimes.  A clueless individual who has never been in her type of classroom would see those restraints and scream abuse. 

I've been reading primary sources to my classes that had that evil word "negro" in them, and had students get butthurt.  If that was recorded, someone somewhere would declare me racist and get me fired, even though I was just quoting original material from the time period being studied.

If parents want to know what is being taught, talk to the teachers.  Email them.  Ask to sit in a couple of classes.  Check your kid's work.  Cameras in the classroom sound good on the surface, but are way too easily abused. 

[Ptarmigan]

Why not?  Because kids and parents can be manipulative, tape can be carefully edited and released just to incite the masses, context can be removed from words and actions....

Most bodycams, to my knowledge are activated by something, radio call, button push, voices, ect.  They are ready to go at all times, but not recording at all times.  In class cameras will be running through the whole day, leaving teachers and students exposed to constant misinterpretation or unheard/off camera words and actions.

My wife teaches SPED.  The district has decided our SPED rooms need cameras.  She has students who need to be restrained sometimes.  A clueless individual who has never been in her type of classroom would see those restraints and scream abuse. 

I've been reading primary sources to my classes that had that evil word "negro" in them, and had students get butthurt.  If that was recorded, someone somewhere would declare me racist and get me fired, even though I was just quoting original material from the time period being studied.

If parents want to know what is being taught, talk to the teachers.  Email them.  Ask to sit in a couple of classes.  Check your kid's work.  Cameras in the classroom sound good on the surface, but are way too easily abused. 

Point taken.