Cameras In High School

ESSAY ABOUT: “Workers at a hotel in Boston (US) took legal action against the hotel after finding a tiny camera observing them from one of their lockers, and at least one school in the UK is known tohave installed cameras in pupils’ toilets”. (BBC Focus Magazine, 2006). “The use of CCTV cameras is entirely unjustifiable.”


I grew up in a High School near to my house. A small place wherenever there have been a camera, and this is an positive point, I belive. Also I've been in a lot of hotels, where the cameras are in the saloon or in the hall, but not in the rooms or in the room service.However, this cameras can have a good things. The first one is that if there is a camera in the school, the teaching team can see if the student's misuse the material of the building as thelockers, the seats, the walls...In that case, the school's director would know inmediately who was the guilty.

The second one is related with social problems. Nowadays, in the school is frequent thebullying. That means a kind of intimidation from one or more students to others. In addition, there have been cases where this siege arrives to limits as the suicide of the boy. This social phenomen couldbe controlled by the cameras, and the teachers could inform the parents.

But, as I said before, the negative points are stronger than the positives. The first thing is that when you put a cameraon a room you're invading the privacy of the workers, so is normal that they took legal actions infront of this kind of violation.

In second place, talking about the cameras in a toilet of a school,it's a total indignation. I remembered that when I went to school one day the teachers were recording a video with the aim to hang on in internet. They gave us a paper where there was a text sayingmore or less that if you allow that your image was recorded, sign it. So in that school of UK children had have to sign some kind of paper, and if they were minors, the signature of the parents were...