A question for teachers: What do you think of cameras in the classroom?

[mike_c]

19. I'm not familiar with the case you cited...

...so I won't even speculate. But I would assume that at any given time there are WAY more people doing bad things than there are getting caught. And I STILL oppose surveillance cameras.

Your OP reminded me of the deputy sheriff somewhere in Arizona? New Mexico? Anyway, the deputy who was fired for having sex on the hood of his patrol car. The whole story seemed designed to sensationalize what he did-- the headline was something like "Deputy fired for soliciting sex in his patrol car," but the real story was he was off duty, he and his partner drove out to this 50,000 acre ranch in the middle of nowhere that was abandoned and under county care, so he had legal access and every reasonable expectation of privacy since they were behind locked gates MILES from the nearest public road, and they made out for a while, things got hotter, and they had exceedingly consensual sex on the hood of his car to avoid laying on the ground.

Thing is, they were within view of a "security camera" on the property that he didn't know about. No crime here, and any "misconduct" is minor at worst, but once that headline hit the paper his job was toast.