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Post by annaj26 on Nov 5, 2017 12:28:24 GMT -5
Colorado parents furious after school decided to install cameras in its bathrooms The decision by a Colorado high school to install cameras in its bathroom is being criticized by parents who say that the move violates students’ privacy rights, KDVR reported. Windsor Charter Academy executive director Rebecca Teeples said the installation of cameras improves safety for students while helping keep the school building secure, KDVR reported. “We had surveillance cameras in our plans from the very start. It was part of the design of the new wing,” Teeples said. “We want to make sure our students are safe and secure.” Trevor Garrett, a parent of three students at Windsor Charter Academy, said the decision violates students’ right to privacy. “The first word that comes to mind is disgusting,” Garrett told KDVR. “I never thought it would be on anyone’s mind to put cameras in bathrooms anywhere.” Garrett said he also worries about students who might change in the restrooms for after-school activities or other circumstances where students might be exposed outside of the stalls. “My gut reaction is, I’m a father, I want to protect my children and I’m going to protect any kids in here,” Garrett told KDVR. “I think when we sacrifice privacy for the sake of safety, it’s a very slippery slope. “At what point does it cross that threshold and violate rights? I think [in this situation] this violates rights.” Teeples said the cameras will be confined to the school’s high school bathrooms because the stalls go from the floor to the ceiling, KDVR reported. www.rawstory.com/2017/11/colorado-parents-furious-after-school-decided-to-install-cameras-in-its-bathrooms/
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Post by Jessiealan on Nov 5, 2017 14:25:36 GMT -5
This does not bother me at all. Only those up to no good will object - or the picky people who want to be offended.
I taught school for a good many years. The rest rooms were used for many things aside from the obvious: smoking, preparing cheat notes, changing clothes, drinking, gossiping and various other teen mischief.
Cameras (unless set up to take inappropriate shots) should be accepted.
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Post by men an tol on Nov 5, 2017 16:54:33 GMT -5
This does not bother me at all. Only those up to no good will object - or the picky people who want to be offended. I taught school for a good many years. The rest rooms were used for many things aside from the obvious: smoking, preparing cheat notes, changing clothes, drinking, gossiping and various other teen mischief. Cameras (unless set up to take inappropriate shots) should be accepted. Jessiealan I agree with you. While times have changed, when and where I went to school such things you have described were very much a rarity. The students would not put up with such behavior and would turn in those who broke the rules. The only other approached as I can see it is for full time bathroom monitors. It would be nice if the kids adhered to an honor system but I suspect that only a few students and few schools would follow it. |
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Post by Sysop3 on Nov 6, 2017 0:52:46 GMT -5
Men, I don't know where you went to school. Was it a church school or a private academy of some kind? In mine, which was in middle class suburbia, one of the gym coaches ran a shell game in the rerst rooms that cost us our lunch money most days.
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Post by mouse on Nov 6, 2017 5:14:57 GMT -5
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Jessiealan I agree with you. While times have changed, when and where I went to school such things you have described were very much a rarity"
the same when I was at school..the bathrooms were only used as bathrooms .... mind you we all carried either pen knives for sharpening pencils for rough drafts on our pencil boxes etc and no one one batted an eye and no one was stabbed or cut either
as men said... times change
probably our pens and sharpened pencils would be considered lethal weapons into days world
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Post by fretslider on Nov 6, 2017 7:52:35 GMT -5
This does not bother me at all. Only those up to no good will object - or the picky people who want to be offended. I taught school for a good many years. The rest rooms were used for many things aside from the obvious: smoking, preparing cheat notes, changing clothes, drinking, gossiping and various other teen mischief. Cameras (unless set up to take inappropriate shots) should be accepted. Coming, as I do, from the state with more cameras than any other, I completely disagree. Yes we used to smoke in the toilets, but more usually behind the bike sheds whilst fumbling bra straps, but we grew up ok. The real problem is in the way parents have been sidelined by the state.A school is there to educate, not to be a nanny, social worker or spy. |
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Post by mouse on Nov 6, 2017 8:16:14 GMT -5
This does not bother me at all. Only those up to no good will object - or the picky people who want to be offended. I taught school for a good many years. The rest rooms were used for many things aside from the obvious: smoking, preparing cheat notes, changing clothes, drinking, gossiping and various other teen mischief. Cameras (unless set up to take inappropriate shots) should be accepted. Coming, as I do, from the state with more cameras than any other, I completely disagree. Yes we used to smoke in the toilets, but more usually behind the bike sheds whilst fumbling bra straps, but we grew up ok. The real problem is in the way parents have been sidelined by the state.A school is there to educate, not to be a nanny, social worker or spy. if as the trend is the toilets are for both male and female.. I see no harm from having a camera in the toilets..if it protects then its doing its job if we were back in the day .. well there was no need for cameras any more than there was a need for security guards in schools or for all doors of schools to be locked .. sadly we are not back in the day but live in an increasingly vile society where there are no boundries.. I don't care for cameras infact I am very much against state spying ..but in this case I can live with it and until the the social wheel changes once more[as it will]so be it |
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Post by Dex on Nov 6, 2017 8:51:50 GMT -5
Coming, as I do, from the state with more cameras than any other, I completely disagree. Yes we used to smoke in the toilets, but more usually behind the bike sheds whilst fumbling bra straps, but we grew up ok. The real problem is in the way parents have been sidelined by the state.A school is there to educate, not to be a nanny, social worker or spy. if as the trend is the toilets are for both male and female.. I see no harm from having a camera in the toilets..if it protects then its doing its job if we were back in the day .. well there was no need for cameras any more than there was a need for security guards in schools or for all doors of schools to be locked .. sadly we are not back in the day but live in an increasingly vile society where there are no boundries.. I don't care for cameras infact I am very much against state spying ..but in this case I can live with it and until the the social wheel changes once more[as it will]so be it I'll go with you, mouse. My oldest (daughter) will be in middle school next year. I don't see a need for cameras in grade school but middle school is another ball of wax. I remember middle school and see it from the view point of a student but also as a parent. |
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Post by Dex on Nov 6, 2017 8:54:41 GMT -5
Colorado parents furious after school decided to install cameras in its bathrooms I don't know who these furious parents are, but if they got as excited about getting their kids to school on time with their homework finished, we'd have a better public edu system. |
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