UK Parents Angry Over CCTV In School Toilets
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Oh, it’s for the children. It’s to keep you safe. Here, let’s just put cameras right in your homes to keep you safe, wouldn’t that be a great idea? Just when it seemed that there was at least one aspect of the surveillance control grid that people had safely beaten down – it’s back, like some ludicrous game of whack-a-mole. There should be an entirely new category of irony for the fact that school administrators in the UK can film kids in the can, but parents can’t kiss their kids or play with them in a public playground unless they’ve got a very special license. Is there nothing people won’t capitulate too after they’ve been softened up with a little propaganda? Is there nothing to which we won’t stoop in the rush to insert ourselves into some dystopian nightmare? The staff should be charged for this crime.
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Sky News
March 9, 2010
Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school’s toilets.
Youngsters at Grace Academy in Chelmsley Wood claim they returned from half-term to find staff had installed the cameras without notifying them or their parents.
Some parents are furious at what they say is a “total invasion of privacy” and claim some pupils are so anxious about being watched they are refusing to use the facilities.
One mother whose teenage daughter attends the school is concerned the footage could fall into the wrong hands.
She told the Sunday Mercury: “She came home from school and told me security cameras had been installed in the girl’s toilets but we didn’t know anything about it.
“You would expect the school to have consulted parents first yet we received no information and no letters have been sent home explaining this decision.”
Grace Academy claims the cameras only cover the sink areas and have not yet been activated.
School principal Terry Wales told Sky News: “It’s to safeguard our youngsters, many schools are using cameras now.
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