Big Brother tests the waters in America.
This USAToday story talks of 15,000 micro cameras in your local public school. While it is argued this could have prevented school voilence tragedies like Columbine, one would have to ask, could this not add to the pressures that caused it?
Some choice quotes:
''It helps honest people be more honest..''
[protect =spy on]
"Almost anywhere they go these days, Americans are on camera: at work, on the road, at public events. Why should schools be different?"
[conditioning]
''prevented a lot of things from happening''
[surveillance]
Frighteningly vague.
".. cameras, which were installed over the past three years, can be an unblinking eye supporting teachers in disputes"
What about students?
"..critics should relax."
[control the thought]
I remember when they put intercoms in the schools. It was considered high tech. It was there for the protection of the teachers and the students. Really it just expanded the authoritarian role of the faculty. There was no stigma worse than having your name called over the intercom.
This is wrong. If my school put these things in the classrooms, I would pull my kids out.
Dear faculty, you can have your cameras in the classrooms if we can have ours in your lounges and your homes. No? I guess "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".
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