<story><title>School surveillance tools are harming kids, report finds</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/school-surveillance-harm-kids-homework-report-1850854919</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smogcutter</author><text>This sounds like an issue at your child’s school, more than an argument for surveillance.&lt;p&gt;A teacher should &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; leave the classroom unattended with students inside. What’s happening when the teacher leaves that’s making your child wish there were cameras?&lt;p&gt;Speaking as an educator myself, I’d be having a conversation with the principal. Something’s not right there.</text></item><item><author>wkjagt</author><text>My 9 year old recently said &amp;quot;why are there only cameras outside the school. They should also put them in classrooms for when the teacher has to go to the bathroom&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>donatj</author><text>If I have learned anything in the last 20 years, it&amp;#x27;s that &amp;quot;The Chilling Effect&amp;quot; is very real. We&amp;#x27;re building nothing but a culture of fear. People come to expect and even desire to be watched.&lt;p&gt;A couple years ago, they installed cameras in our office ostensibly to &amp;quot;lock the doors in case of a gunman&amp;quot; shortly after a gunman had broken into a nearby office building. For that to even be remotely possible though, someone literally has to be constantly watching those cameras and the gunman has to be clearly brandishing the weapon. It&amp;#x27;s at best security theater and no one is watching, and at worst a horrible privacy violation. I see no upside. Talking to coworkers I was seemingly the only one with any concerns, and it feels like I&amp;#x27;m taking crazy pills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leetcrew</author><text>&amp;gt; A teacher should never leave the classroom unattended with students inside.&lt;p&gt;maybe things have changed a lot since I was in grade school, but this was surprising to read. I&amp;#x27;d expect that a teacher should only rarely leave during class, because it would be a waste of class time, but beyond that I don&amp;#x27;t see why it&amp;#x27;s so serious. when I was in school, the class would often fill up with students before the teacher was present. unless the teacher was teaching several periods in the same room back-to-back, there would always be at least a few students arriving before the teacher. is that not a thing these days?</text></comment>
<story><title>School surveillance tools are harming kids, report finds</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/school-surveillance-harm-kids-homework-report-1850854919</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smogcutter</author><text>This sounds like an issue at your child’s school, more than an argument for surveillance.&lt;p&gt;A teacher should &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; leave the classroom unattended with students inside. What’s happening when the teacher leaves that’s making your child wish there were cameras?&lt;p&gt;Speaking as an educator myself, I’d be having a conversation with the principal. Something’s not right there.</text></item><item><author>wkjagt</author><text>My 9 year old recently said &amp;quot;why are there only cameras outside the school. They should also put them in classrooms for when the teacher has to go to the bathroom&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>donatj</author><text>If I have learned anything in the last 20 years, it&amp;#x27;s that &amp;quot;The Chilling Effect&amp;quot; is very real. We&amp;#x27;re building nothing but a culture of fear. People come to expect and even desire to be watched.&lt;p&gt;A couple years ago, they installed cameras in our office ostensibly to &amp;quot;lock the doors in case of a gunman&amp;quot; shortly after a gunman had broken into a nearby office building. For that to even be remotely possible though, someone literally has to be constantly watching those cameras and the gunman has to be clearly brandishing the weapon. It&amp;#x27;s at best security theater and no one is watching, and at worst a horrible privacy violation. I see no upside. Talking to coworkers I was seemingly the only one with any concerns, and it feels like I&amp;#x27;m taking crazy pills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xethos</author><text>&amp;gt; A teacher should never leave the classroom unattended with students inside.&lt;p&gt;I struggle to even imagine your school. My Canadian teachers routinely left to photocopy work, and that&amp;#x27;s just the one that stuck out when thinking of examples. Yes, in elementary school too. No, not that long ago. All my schooling was after the year 2000.</text></comment>