Why do schools need camera monitoring?

Answer 1

Without them, some parents would withdraw their children. That there is anything for such cameras to detect is a sad reflection of modern attitudes to child-rearing. Such cameras - had they been available - 50, 100, 200 years ago would have had little to observe. No pupil went to school then with the intention of killing their classmates or teachers. They knew better. Children are entrusted to a school - which acts 'in loco parentis' (in the place of the parents) - and which must do everything possible to ensure the safety of the children attending. If it fails to do so it would - as a negligent parent would - be subject to legal penalties. So, to answer the question asked - No, there should not be surveillance cameras on schools, but while they serve to deter fatal incidents involving pupils, they are a necessity which ought to be there.

Answer 2

Pro: They're good unless you want some freak taking a machete out and hacking you to pieces like Susan said she would. Con: Like all measures of this type, things intended to protect others but eventually used for more nefarious means, a surveillance system like this ends up being used for those more nefarious acts, and that is a bad thing. The founders of the US have said "It is better that 100 guilty men go free, than the rights of one man be violated" (Jefferson). To translate that to a more understandable phrase; I will not give up my rights to privacy, even in a semi-public place, so that you may feel more secure.

Answer 3

In a School the cameras main job is deterrence, people are less likely to commit a crime in view of a camera, but when they do, the camera records what happened and can be replayed to help solve the crime.

Answer 4

no they're terrible!