Webcams Watching The Classrooms?

embarcadero writes "Webcams will be tuned to watch over 500 classrooms in the Biloxi, Mississippi school district this year, according to a story in USA Today. The goal is to make classrooms safer, but there's a lot of speculation about how the recorded info could be used for or against teachers in disputes or teaching reviews. I can just see Mrs. Waters pointing towards the camera, 'If I don't catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even think about it.'"

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[DNS-and-BIND]

This kind of monitoring should get children used to being watched from birth. I have an acquaintance who had her whole house wired with video after she had a child. She said she just didn't feel safe being on the computer unless she had a window in the corner of her screen where she could watch her kid. Someday, people will look back at our priggishness and laugh, wondering what we were thinking, much like we laugh at the priggishness of the Victorian era.