Cameras in the classroom

I've never heard of any child abuse in the public schools.
Call it what you want. If I lived in Louisiana and I couldn't afford a private or parochial school, I'd move to a different state. Very simple. And the most important criteria for deciding where I'd move to would be the quality of public education for my kids.
In Louisiana it's practically a given that any responsible parent send their kids to a non-public school.
 
Call it what you want. If I lived in Louisiana and I couldn't afford a private or parochial school, I'd move to a different state. Very simple. And the most important criteria for deciding where I'd move to would be the quality of public education for my kids.
In Louisiana it's practically a given that any responsible parent send their kids to a non-public school.

I'll need a backstory on that about the public schools in Louisiana. Do they scare those kids with stories of alligator attacks?
 
I'll need a backstory on that about the public schools in Louisiana.
If you had a kid would you send it to a school where there were no homework assignments, if there were they wouldn't have to be turned in? A school where you don't even have to show up to take tests and still pass?
 
If you had a kid would you send it to a school where there were no homework assignments, if there were they wouldn't have to be turned in? A school where you don't even have to show up to take tests and still pass?

Seriously? I haven't heard anything about that.
 
You tell me. I would prefer they be open but I can see some need for restrictions such as, a parent has to view them at the school.
A camera can serve many purposes. Protecting the teacher from unruly students or on the flip side, making sure a teacher is not pushing their own personal agenda on the students.

Here are my thoughts I put on another thread a few weeks ago. I just copied the post from that thread and pasted it here. If you stay with it to the end you’ll see why I asked who would have access to the footage.

Here are my thoughts. I’ll try to keep it short.

A few years ago in Oklahoma students were given 7 End of Instruction tests starting their 9th grade year. They were Algebra I, English and Writing I and III, Algebra II, Geometry, Science and Social Studies. The students had to pass 4 of them by their 12th grade year to receive a diploma…and two of the 4 they HAD to pass were Algebra I and English I, and then any two of the others. This went on from 2012 to 2017. At our school the English teacher and I had a 100% pass rating, but I had one freshman class that was disrespectful, rowdy and did not take Algebra I as seriously as they needed to. By the middle of October I video taped that particular class every day so if they failed the class or the EOI Algebra I test I could show the administrators mom and dad 1) that I was doing my job and 2) why their little turd…er a… child failed. One parent teacher conference later (in November) with a couple parents viewing the video with me for about 10 minutes I had zero problems with this bunch of kids and they all passed the EOI at the end of that year.

So I don’t mind people viewing my class in person (I encourage parent shadowing) or by looking at it on a video. There has since been a camera installed in my room for safety reasons and my class is digitally recorded every day. To me it is no big deal.

BUT, as some of you have rightly pointed out, this type of deal is being proposed to try to catch a teacher in a GOTCHA moment or something. It is politically motivated which is wrong. And I am adamantly against any Internet livestream of classes. I don’t want potential perverts watching kids. I would absolutely encourage my congressman to vote against any and all such legislation.
 
Call it what you want. If I lived in Louisiana and I couldn't afford a private or parochial school, I'd move to a different state. Very simple. And the most important criteria for deciding where I'd move to would be the quality of public education for my kids.
In Louisiana it's practically a given that any responsible parent send their kids to a non-public school.

That is an exaggeration. Like any other state the school district and socio-economic status of the students determines the quality.

I taught a lot of LA students and they were about the same as others--both good and bad.
 
That is an exaggeration. Like any other state the school district and socio-economic status of the students determines the quality.

I taught a lot of LA students and they were about the same as others--both good and bad.
I don't know when or where you taught but you say LA students.
Did you teach in a Louisiana public school in the last , say, 20 years? Were your LA students all products of a public education?
I'm a product of LA public education from the '70's and did quite well for myself educationally and professionally.
It would be difficult for me to be motivated when I knew I would pass regardless of effort and being surrounded by students that knew the same, not sure I'd have the same motivation I had back then. Sure , it can be done, there are exceptions.
 
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If you cannot tell the difference, then I cannot help you.

Based on the OP and reading the article, I doubt he read the article…but maybe the larger words confused him. ;)

Notice the Teacher of the Year was for it and so am I. There need to be rules, of course, and the rights of the teacher and students protected, but the idea of a feedback loop using cameras, like with the police, would be beneficial.
 
Based on the OP and reading the article, I doubt he read the article…but maybe the larger words confused him. ;)

Notice the Teacher of the Year was for it and so am I. There need to be rules, of course, and the rights of the teacher and students protected, but the idea of a feedback loop using cameras, like with the police, would be beneficial.

Feedback loop? Damn why I didn't think of that?

The movie "Speed" is an excellent example of that.
 
Yesterday they wanted to do away with tenure and now they want cameras in the classroom, pile that on top of they want to tell teachers what to teach, how to teach it, and when to teach it and it is pretty obvious why teachers in America are leaving the profession in record numbers

Welcome to MAGA America
Then replace them with AI teaching devices. Kinda like those Japanese sex robots but wearing clothes and glasses. LOL

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TBH, security cameras are a good idea. Common sense should prevail in having everyone’s rights protected. These shouldn’t end up on YouTube.
 
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