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It should be a requirement that every public school classroom is live streamed so the parents can watch. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy between a government employee and children.

University endowments, the crystallization of privilege, should be seized and distributed as reparations. There is very little value in these places besides the maintenance of power and economic hierarchy.

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Except I don’t want my kids’ broadcast to other people. Plenty of other kids’ parents are just as problematic as the teachers. It takes one family to opt out of this for the whole thing to be moot for that classroom so this wouldn’t work.

You don't get to opt out of police wearing body cams when they arrest you. You don't get to opt out of public school teachers wearing body cams when they teach you.

Actually I do. Schools have you sign a photo and video consent policy where you get to choose whether you do or do not consent to having pictures/video of your child taken while at school.

Police work is a strawman argument. I’ll give you another strawman: installing cameras in all the bathrooms would prevent abuse in this bathrooms, wouldn’t it? Except all the unintended terrible consequences this plan is bulletproof.

Moreover, classrooms isn’t where abuse happens, by and large. Private offices, bathrooms, locker rooms, are all much more likely places.

They also don't give you a handy link to share the video when something does go down. Giving all the parents a way to view the video at any time is a very different proposition. Besides, the number of times you hear about a camera being shut off or obstructed, either on purpose or "accidentally" when something is hinky is afoot happens too often to think that it's _the_ solution.

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