Should teachers be able to wear body cams in the class room?

With what is happening these days it's a route that ought to be considered, but oh dear! how sad that we've come to this

I completely agree. I’m a retired teacher and I had problems with a teenage boys who was constantly shouting obscenities in the classroom. He also wrote obscene comments on his “work.” No one believed me until I produced this in front of his parents. They both burst into tears and apologised profusely.
Also one of my colleagues was falsely accused of assaulting a pupil. This took ages to sort out and she was traumatised by it.

Yes.Our daughter was assaulted last week resulting in a very sore shoulder and arm.Another teacher in the same city was punched repeatedly in the head whilst trying to stop a pupil hitting a classmate.

As an ex-teacher YES. I know what it is like to be accused of something you have not done which was reported to the authorities the child had got names mixed up with a dinner lady!!!!! I also would have liked to show some parents their children's behaviour and obscenities in class and I taught Infants.

Yes ... protects the innocent & catches the guilty !!!

Yes, definitely. There are far too many parents who don't believe their little angel can behave atrociously.
It would also be useful in establishing the truth in cases of accusations.
After all, every time we go on a tube, a train, in a shop or even walk along a town pavement, we are filmed. I know some schools have cameras in densely populated areas such as corridors, but as far as I know, not in classrooms.

Athrawes

With what is happening these days it's a route that ought to be considered, but oh dear! how sad that we've come to this

Yes it is sad, but no sadder than many aspects of today's society which includes so many entitled people.

OhI don't know about this. I can see they might give some degree of protection, but wouldn't they also be regarded as a challenge by some pupils? What can you do that the camera can't catch? Not to mention the kid who thinks it's some sort of route onto Hollyoaks and keeps acting and posing while asking inane questions. Could you post some of the footage on You tube? Or would that be unethical?

@Smileless2012 indeed it could catch an attack on a child, but actually a teacher could do somthing like move a scarf over the lens or 'accidentally ' turn the sound down if determined to assault. But yes, there is a way around everything. At my children's school there was the odd teacher who lied or behaved in an unacceptable manner, and probably all of us remember being wrongly accused of something and the teacher was believed. The vast majority of teachers I've come into contact with either at school myself or at my children's schools, no problems at all, just the odd one here and there

I wonder also if bodycams would be thought by children to give them a right to use their phones to film teachers? On the basis if you can do it so can I.

My friend was accused, it was retracted after a few days but the stained stayed and it made the last two years of work miserable.

I agree Mokryna as they say Mud Sticks ... even if innocent ... some people may still question it & have their doubts

the difference would be @Glorianny, that any footage taken by an official bodycam/cctv co
If a teacher was behaving badly I'd support any child getting evience on their phone as long as they only shared it with the right people

Not appropriate for students to film in a classroom. It borders on harassment. Kids do it and uploaded and it on social media.

Not to mention, students should not have phones out in a classroom.

Teachers don't film students on their own mobile devices. It'd be a sacking offence.

*and upload it

I think it's a good idea, as likewise with CCTV in and around the schools!
Also, because schools are so darned fussy about children's uniforms, I think the teachers & staff should be wearing the same - except with 'head' 'teacher' 'staff' etc on them - and have the same restrictions as the children have!!

Ali08, I presume you are having a laugh ?

Ali08

I think it's a good idea, as likewise with CCTV in and around the schools!
Also, because schools are so darned fussy about children's uniforms, I think the teachers & staff should be wearing the same - except with 'head' 'teacher' 'staff' etc on them - and have the same restrictions as the children have!!

Summer holidays innit.

Bored already?