There’s an App for That!

It would be nice to have internet cameras in schools that parents could access, a few moments of observation from time to time, while the children are at work or play in the school environment, can tell a lot about the child's state of being...also being able to text the teacher would be a valuable tool....video surveillance of the school grounds would seem to be the cheapest and most effective deterrent or at least part of it, to prevent school violence, that and controlled entry....

A friend of mine, when his kids were in child care, they had live feed videos where the parents could log in and check on their kids... he was on threw out the day, to make sure the daycare was treating his kids right...

I asked him, maybe it’s worth being a stay at home dad or something... he said you just can’t trust child care... the reason why they taking their kids to this child care is their last child care, their kid had been eating dirt...

I don’t recall how many child care facilities they went through... I was surprised at the number...

Eating dirt is good for kids. (I wonder what the FDA guidelines say about it?) Probably mineral deficient. That parent should probably had been monitoring their child's diet.

I wonder what will happen when these children become adults? Will they still have helicopter parents?

..."There is quite a well-known article that appeared in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity that reports on research by Thomas McDade and his colleagues at Northwestern University. What they found was that people exposed to lower levels of microbes during their infancy were much more sensitive to the “pro-inflammatory effects of stress” as adults. In practical terms, what that means is that the more germs we experience as children the better our immune systems will be later in life at preventing physiological reactions that make us susceptible to becoming stressed. Put simply, dirt makes us psychologically strong.

If we think about this like a preventative immunization, then giving kids a chance to get dirty (maybe even eat dirt) may be just what the doctor ordered for long term resistance to stress. Indeed, giving kids back their “wildhoods” is a great strategy for physical and psychological health."...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-resilience/201707/kids-need-eat-dirt-and-get-dirty

Thats true,... i was really surprise, the defensive response I got for some what brushing it off.

it was to the effect of ”THATS MY KID”.

but it may go a little deeper... such as peanut or nut allergies... I'm sure there always were these type of alergies, but were they always to this level?

Again, i have to refer to memory, i had read that, if you start out the child young enough introducing to these alergens, an amunity will be built up... I wonder if that would be the same for lactose intolerance... (because or a deficiancy of the enzyme lactase???,.. to break down the sugars)

Ah but you are opening a legal "can of worms". Other parents may not want you watching what their children are doing.

We are being watched too much already these days.

Pedophiles would just love to hack into such a feed.

Potential school shooters don't seem to care if they are caught, or even die. I am sure they would love to have access to a view of the security in a school building before entering.

You have no right of privacy in a public place.....nobody was ever harmed from observation alone.....A shooter may choose an easier target if he knows he's going to have to face a dedicated trained shooter to reach his target....or may abandon this altogether...No parent would object to having another parent text them info that their child was being bullied....

The same parents that object to armed guards, and there appears to be quite a few, would also fight the observation of their children by others all the way to the Supreme Court. This is not 1958. Then it would have never been questioned.

That ship has sailed ....single point of entry and trained armed guards are ubiquitous here in Florida....I've never been in a children's facility that didn't have video surveillance...Nearly every child has an internet presence of some sort now, just like the adults...some much more than others, with daily video blogs...

Well...yes it has and no it hasn't. Being observed by teachers and administrators is one thing. Having a feed so Billy Richboys mother can watch what Johnny Rednecks son is doing, or vice versa, is what you are proposing. The intrusion into privacy issue will rise the first time either mother posts derogatory remarks about the other's child on Facebook, and the feed source is the school's cameras.

This is already happening....

https://schoolleaders.thekeysupport.com/pupils-and-parents/engaging-parents-and-carers/resolving-issues/parental-online-abuse-of-schools-advice-and-recourse/

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-illegal-to-post-derogatory-remarks-on-facebo-589968.html

The Constitution says that we have the right to be secure in our persons. This can be interpreted as our domain. What the Constitution doesn't specify is the range of that domain, or the space that our domain occupies. This is the loophole.and loopholes can be exploited. In this instance, if entry and exit portals were secure, then there would be no reason to have monitoring devices within. In an arrangement of fear, every nook and cranny would be under observation and only under arbitration would the range of that space be determined.

This could be called a slippery slope, who or what can be used to define the security in our persons ? Currently social norms are often guides and these are many and varied, depending on the situation, such as : the space between two houses, the countertop between the customer and the clerk, the space between between patrons standing in a line, etc

Dude, you're touching my personal space bubble....

My school district (a small district in a mostly-rural county) proposed installing military-grade surveillance cameras earlier this year. We voted that proposal down for several reasons, including cost and concern about how saved video might be used.

That said, I do think that some kind of grounds surveillance camera coverage is a good idea. Where we live we are just as likely to catch a bear or another wild animal on the camera as someone who has no business on school grounds. Either kind of intruder is worth knowing about.

Typical surveillance video is not saved beyond 30 days usually, then it's taped over....Let's face it the kids all have phones and can post live video to the internet whenever they want....It's happening now...

France has eliminated that issue - phones are not allowed in schools anymore.

I understand the concern over communication going to / from school and during an emergency at the school, but really, this is a good policy overall.

Why would you deprive a student from being able to look up something, I'm sure a lot of students google for answers just like everybody else, it's a teaching extension....Now I'm sure most teachers want any ringers silenced and probably talking to friends during class time is probably restricted as well, but banning them? This isn't France....

Looking up something....such as test answers? Good idea. (????)

I guess you are not into the rote memorization of useless facts. This was my forte in high school. I ruined every grading curve.

I once scored an 'A' on a test that the entire rest of the class failed.... it was a final that counted for a third of the final grade for the year....the teacher lamented to me that she was in a quandary as to what she should do....she bought me off with the class pet a white rat....my beloved Thelma...RIP ...I've kept my silence until this day....