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2006-11-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Quebec students suspended for posting teacher's outburst online

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-27 09:29|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The teachers' union has asked the board to ban cameras and camera-equipped cellphones in all classrooms within its jurisdiction because they can be used to invade the privacy of teachers and students.

It's a public building where public business occurs. What privacy exists? Locker rooms and rest rooms maybe, but the conduct of 'public' business does not occur there. Go teach in a 'private' school if you want to hide. Can the principal sit though any class and observe the performance of the teacher and students? Yes. Then why couldn't the same administrator use technology to watch multiple classes and record? And if said administrator could do it, why couldn't the students as long as it was not intrusive? Unless, of course, you have something to hide.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-27 12:00|| 2006-11-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

#2 At the trailing daughters' public high school, the students are forbidden to have take their cell phones away from their lockers during the school day. The argument is that

a) using cell phones for making and receiving calls distracts from the business of teaching and learning, and

b) cell phones have been used elsewhere to enable cheating on tests (and camera phones to share panty pictures, amongst other nefarious activities not consented to by all parties).

Primary and secondary students are not full citizens and do not have all the rights of citizenship (including, for instance, the right to bear arms on school property, or to participate in unsanctioned personal expression), based on the presumption that children and teenagers do not yet have the knowledge or judgement to differentiate consistently between wisdom and stupidity. In this case, the students provoked an unnecessary confrontation, then posted the resulting outburst online to embarass a highly regarded teacher. There was no argument that the teacher had been behaving inappropriately, teaching inappropriately, or was otherwise acting contrary to the interest of students, the school, or the community which paid her salary. In a situation of teacher misbehaviour, such a recording would be helpful in building a case. But in this particular situation it was the students' behaviour that was intrusive, destructive and unacceptable, not that of the teacher. Were those two mine, indefinite suspension from school would be the least of their worries.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-27 15:58|| 2006-11-27 15:58|| Front Page Top

#3 To tell you the damn truth maybe they should videotape every class.

Posted by Penguin 2006-11-27 15:59|| 2006-11-27 15:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Where the wife works they can remotely listen to every classroom, no one has a problem with it.

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