How wrong is this
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That's outrageous abuse of power and those responsible should not only lose their jobs but face criminal charges, simple as that.
So what's the point in having cctv then? It's the kids that do all the damage.
The kids don't know that it's switched off.
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Lol, all the students are blatently like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU my teachers seen me fapping.
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So what's the point in having cctv then? It's the kids that do all the damage.
Burglars basically.
There are (or were) laws saying you can't turn CCTV cameras on your employees and I can remember Spie once saying that was true when he had a spate of robberies in his old premises.
The law may have changed now.
lols
A few years ago at school they had the cctv on all the time, used it to see who has been messing around with the computers.
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Jonathan Bamford, assistant Information Commissioner, said:
CCTV should only be used for a pressing need. It is perfectly reasonable for a school to use CCTV to help secure its premises, but it shouldn’t be left switched on capturing images of school children during the day. When a school is staffed and children are on the premises, cameras will not generally be required for security purposes. Organisations that do capture images using CCTV are required by law to adhere to the Principles of the Data Protection Act. Guidance for organisations using CCTV is available from http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/topic_specific_guides/cctv.aspx
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Take the morality and psychosis of the teachers and admins aside for a second, they're bad enough anyway.
What right do they have to discipline a child outside of their school, especially for something in their own home. Parents decide what to teach their kids, what to allow/tollerate. Even if it was out of the home, say the laptop was with the guy in a park, and he was littering/causing gbh whatever, that's still not the school's domain and requires a jury to decide if he's guilty and a judge to determine the punishment, in the public domain.
What kind of person, going past the ridiculous "gary glitter" means of espionage, thinks they have the right to parent a child outside of school? Probably the same kind of person who sees nothing wrong with invading kid's and kid's families' privacy.
What right do they have to discipline a child outside of their school, especially for something in their own home. Parents decide what to teach their kids, what to allow/tollerate. Even if it was out of the home, say the laptop was with the guy in a park, and he was littering/causing gbh whatever, that's still not the school's domain and requires a jury to decide if he's guilty and a judge to determine the punishment, in the public domain.
What kind of person, going past the ridiculous "gary glitter" means of espionage, thinks they have the right to parent a child outside of school? Probably the same kind of person who sees nothing wrong with invading kid's and kid's families' privacy.
I think it has, as I am under permanent video surveillance at work except in the toilets and staff areas. Most of the staff are under surveillance most of the time, but due to my specific job I'm on camera all the time.
It's nothing secret, it's just that there's a lot of cash involved and quite a bit of it is accessible to customers who want to steal it. Filming the staff is incidental - the point is filming the money. Having big piles of cash hanging around all the time makes bsinesses nervous.
Maybe that was the "inappropriate behaviour" the youth was disciplined for.
This is so wrong that I can't describe how wrong it is. The more I think about it, the more wrong I think it is. It's wrong that they spy on their pupils at home. It's more wrong that they disciplined one of them for something they did at home. It's more wrong again that they don't have any understanding of why it's wrong, that they think it's a good thing. It's like someone breaking into homes to steal underwear and genuinely not understanding that it's wrong to do so. There's such a fundamental lack of understanding that it leads me to conclude that the people who okayed this scheme are wrong in the head.
EDIT: A quote from Red Dwarf comes to mind: "Wrong, wrong. Absolutely brimming over with wrongability".
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