The argument that information is somehow different than everything else because of the differences in peoples value of it is actually quite faulty. What about every other thing we buy? Some might be willing to pay thousands of dollars for a premium computer, where others simply do not value having a computer that can play the latest games at 200fps.
To suggest that we shouldn't pay anyone just because we have different values for something is ludicrous.
Supposedly the teachers are supposed to keep an eye on students and report their behavior to their parents... (what do you think all those parent-teacher conferences were for?) In effect all we have here are videocameras doing some of the work. Where a teacher with 30+ students per hour can only remember a few, these will remember all of the students...
Even better if such things as theft, vandalism, or worse occur there will be video evidence of the events.
Certainly we must be careful when we give up our priveleges (and being unmonitored is certainly a privelege) that we don't give up to much. We must also though give the tools necessary to maintain order in a school as well.
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The argument that information is somehow different than everything else because of the differences in peoples value of it is actually quite faulty. What about every other thing we buy? Some might be willing to pay thousands of dollars for a premium computer, where others simply do not value having a computer that can play the latest games at 200fps.
To suggest that we shouldn't pay anyone just because we have different values for something is ludicrous.
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Supposedly the teachers are supposed to keep an eye on students and report their behavior to their parents... (what do you think all those parent-teacher conferences were for?) In effect all we have here are videocameras doing some of the work. Where a teacher with 30+ students per hour can only remember a few, these will remember all of the students...
Even better if such things as theft, vandalism, or worse occur there will be video evidence of the events.
Certainly we must be careful when we give up our priveleges (and being unmonitored is certainly a privelege) that we don't give up to much. We must also though give the tools necessary to maintain order in a school as well.