Security Cameras Should Not Be Placed Public Schools

Although surveillance cameras may be expensive, schools should install them because they increase safety, reduce vandalism, and keep both teachers and students accountable for their actions.

It cannot be disputed that schools often have to place the privacy of one student, below the overall need to secure the safety of a student body as a whole. If students know that their belongings can be searched, it will discourage them from committing illegal activities at school.

The school has allowed an undisclosed number of certified teachers to carry handguns. The school has also begun to use several other methods to protect students including keyless locks, a camera system, and classroom phones. In the eyes of most people these defenses would be seen as enough, however, superintendent David Thweatt disagrees. Thweatt believes his school can never be secure enough. His wife works at the school and his children are students, he stated that he feels more secure knowing his family is protect by trained teachers. Thweatt also stated that the closest police station is 30 miles away and he doubts an officer could make it soon enough to assist the school. (Current

With increased concerns about school safety due to widely publicized school violence, schools, responding to demands of concerned parents and educators, have implemented heightened security measures. School surveillance remains relatively unregulated by the government, meaning that spying technology can be instated without notifying parents or students and is largely left to the discretion and oversight of administration. This has peaked concerns of students and their families who argue unregulated surveillance is unnecessary, too invasive and harmful to educational environments. Elaborating on the extent of harms surveillance can cause in school environments, Melinda Anderson argues in her Atlantic article “When School Feels Like Prison” surveillance

I attended the IPS school board meeting on February 23, 2016 at 6pm. The meeting took place at 120 East Walnut Street. There was about 60-70 people there. There were people who was helping to conduct the meeting. They also had tables set up close to the front to where people were sitting. They also had rows for anyone who wanted to listen to the meeting. Police officers were also by the door. There were a variety of topics discussed last night. The topics that was discussed were bus tracking, increasing teacher’s salary, treatment of black kids and segregation in education, shortage of teachers and kids acting out, a group of parent’s helping improve reading scores, and a new system called naviance.

There were over 200 school shootings in America from 2013 to 2015 — an average of nearly one a week. In all, these incidents resulted in 59 deaths and 124 non-fatal gunshot injuries. A staggering statistic considering that protecting children at schools has been and will be one of the top priorities for all Americans. Americans disagree on many topics and have diverse social and economic beliefs , but we all agree on providing safe and secure learning environments for our students. Government officials and school administrators face substantial altercations balancing parents’ expectations on keeping the students safe, and understanding the best available solutions with limited funding. These

In Clarksville, Arkansas many teachers, janitors, and other faculty members have already begun to act as armed guards, ready to defend and protect at any moment necessary. This school district along with the parents feel that arming their teachers and staff is the most effective way to keep their students and children safe. The writer proceeds to express some of the many concerns that this school district had. One being that their school is located twenty minutes away from the nearest police station, which is far too long of a response time to effectively stop the shooting, therefore if school officials are armed it gives everyone a “fighting chance”. Additionally, the writer further emphasizes on the fact that hiring one school officer would cost the district $50,000 while training thirteen staff members only cost $68,000.

In the past many schools have been victims of gun violence. Shootings, among other violent things are by far the most devastating. A few good ways to prevent gun violence, and violence in general, are timed locks throughout the school, metal detectors on the doors, gun safety programs at home and school, and more devices and policies to monitor students whereabouts. I; however, believe that the best way to prevent school violence, without violating the student’s privacy, is to install timed locks and metal detectors throughout the entire school.

Even children who come from middle-class and upper-middle-class communities don’t feel safe in schools. The nightmares, always about being chased, lingered for years. Even now, the images of children walking out of schools with their hands up are too much for people to bear. As we all know that this has been a very controversial topic in the past years, it might be hard for people I power to fix this will not trying to break any amendments like taken away people right to own a gun. Because this can cause more chaos amongst the American people and we are not trying to split us, but to unite us by stand tall the problem we have to face on Saturday, some of Haviland’s students, born in the years after Columbine, participated in the Denver “March For Our Lives” to protest school gun violence, one of many demonstrations held across the United States. In the nation’s capital, students from Parkland, Fla.still grieving the friends and classmates they lost last month led an impassioned rally attended by a massive crowd that demanded gun reform. By Ryan Quinn, Education Reporter, Charleston Gazette Mail As part of a new training program, Kanawha County school officials are now ling students and teachers, they shouldn't automatically hunker down in classrooms if there's someone with a gun in their school.Perhaps most controversial is the program's guidance that students can physically confront a shooter as

Though a fair amount of time and money towards searches there is still an alarming amount of theft and assault on school property. As technology has advanced over the years schools have gotten electronic gadgets and techniques to keep students out of trouble. As the amount of technology and precautions taken to avoid students getting in trouble the amount of students breaking rule increases with it. Though schools take many steps to protect students, pupils still report that drugs are made accessible to them on school property, schools combine document that nearly 2 million crimes were reported to them, and many students still feel unsafe (violence in U.S. public schools). These reports show that millions of dollars provided by taxes go towards school security and it has done less than intended.

The process of adding more guards and adding more detectors to school buildings will just add on to the stress of students going to school. Also by adding all the equipment it will make it feel more like a jail anyway because they already have a set lunch, certain amount of bathroom passes and a bell dismisses them from all their classes. So even by adding the following safety measures the schools are not becoming more “safe and secure” (“5

I think that students’ expectations of privacy while in school are guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which states that people have the right to be secure in their persons, property, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures (Siegel & Welsh, 2014). The schools must create and maintain a safe environment for students to learn. I feel that as long as the school provides safety and education then their policies should reflect. If searching the students’ property before they enter school grounds is necessary to ensure safety that is a reasonable search. Reasonable searches must be fair and impartial to all students no matter their race, ethnicity or gender. An example of an unreasonable search would be if

According to Reclaiming Michigan's Throwaway Kids (2009), students enter school each day and are often greeted by metal detectors, armed security guards, police dogs, school and local police on campus. Each year, more than 3 million students receive an out of school suspension because of their actions while on school property. Opponents claim these security measures limit a student’s opportunity to a quality education, reduces opportunities, and criminalizes students who lose their educational opportunities (Reclaiming Michigan's Throwaway Kids, 2009).

Recently at Rockville high school a 14 year old girl was raped by two older kids in the bathroom. Because of this incident, Montgomery County has realized how poor the security is in each school. They are enforcing new rules to make the schools more secure. I agree with the new change in security because some schools might not have security cameras or guards to protect the school. But, some people also don’t agree with the new rules.

duty to watch their every move because there have been to many cases where young men die