Why Teachers Want to Ban Cellphone Cameras From Classrooms

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i dont believe kids should be able to have them because they can take pictures of test answers then use the pictures while taking the test. How does that help[ you learn anything in life??? i ask you america why make camera phones?!?!?!?!?!?

Justine j of MN 3:08PM May 23, 2011

ITS UNETHICAL............ABSOLUTELY UNETHICAL. BECAUSE, CAMERAS ARE PUT IN CLASS ROOMS FOR POSITIVE PURPOSES BUT THEY ARE USED NEGATIVELY. THEY ARE USED TO PIN POINT TEACHERS, AND CRITICISE THEM AND BLAME THEM. IF THE SAME CAMERAS WERE PUT IN THE PRINCIPALS' ROOMS AND WERE CONTINUOUSLY OBSERVED, THEY WOULD ALSO NOT BE ABLE TO WORK PROPERLY, EVEN TALK NATURALLY.
THUS, LET THE TEACHER HAVE HIS / HER PROPER AND DUE RESPECT. IF YOU DOUBT, O MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS/DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS, THE ABILITIES OF THE TEACHERS, THEN DONT APPOINT THEM, ITS BETTER THAN THIS INSULT.
WHAT ELSE I SAY?
OPEN CRITICISM IS PAINFUL BUT TRUTH.............

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Buy Ambien of AL 7:35AM April 05, 2010

I don't believe cell phone cameras should be permitted Cin schools, but I do believe schools should have cameras in every classroom. It would be beneficial to both the student and the teacher. I believe that if the teacher and the student both knew that their actions were bing video taped, it would encourage both parties to behave in a more civil manor. I know all of our children are not lil angels in the classroom but I also know that all teachers are not without fault. They go through life experiences like everyone else and sometimes it can affect their behavior towards the childen in the classroom.

C. Parker of NE 7:00PM January 28, 2010

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handyspionage of AL 7:42AM December 24, 2009

If students are going to be permitted to bring still and video cameras into the classroom, teachers should be given the opportunity to bring video cameras into the classroom too.
Then when they are thrown out of class for disrupting the learning environment or are caught cheating the prrof will be there.
When parents deny that little Sally is anything less than a perfect child, the teacher can roll the video for the parent.
Perhaps if we are to allow students to video the teacher and post this online, the teacher should be given the ability to post what the teacher's camera captures for the BOE, parents and future employers to view and comment on.
Cameras in the classroom could work out well. At last we could see who put that tack on teacher's chair.

Ernest H. of NJ 4:02PM December 14, 2009

There is no need of cell phones and cameras in the classroom, By using these instruments students are not do their study care fully. School or colleges are place where student learn and study. Cell phones, Cameras etc should be ban in school ad colleges.
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Shaifali 5:30AM August 28, 2009

students should be allowed to have cell phones at school. Now phones such as the iphone and the blackberry smartphone can be used for research snd all that other kind of good stuff. so they should definately consider letting kids have cellphones at school. on the other hand they do disrupt class and are dangerous in many ways, so it could really go either way

Anonymous of AL 9:14AM May 14, 2009

Most people would agree that today's teenagers are much more difficult to deal with in public settings. Go to a fast food restaurant and the teenage employee acts like they are doing you a favor as they take your order with attitude. Today's teenagers are exposed to much more violent and sexual images and are expected to "grow up" at a quicker rate without the emotional maturity to do so. Today's teenager lives in a world that fosters a very short attention span. Needless to say the task facing America's teachers are more arduous than ever while public scrutiny is at an all time high. Everyone complains that today's teachers do not do enough to teach today's youth life skills that will prepare them for the work force and allow teenagers to be lazy and undisciplined and graduate school with no work ethic, poor attitude and an inability to problem solve. The best solution is to give today's teachers more autonomy to challenge students to problem solve, to work harder, to develop proper social skills instead society is filled with stories of parents trying to fire educators for any time they show enough character to take a stand and discipline a young person or to not pass a person for not doing the required work. We are undercutting the same people we are counting on.
Allowing cell phone use in classrooms have extremely limited benefits:
1. Calling cha-cha to get an answer
Really is this the way we want to teach youngsters how to conduct thorough research? Instead of reading and problem solving ....call cha-cha....that's weak....and yes administrators in many districts are in favor of it. Another example of the lowering of standards for today's youth
The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages:
1. It's a distraction ...Will students text their friends? Yes
2. Students that have blackberry phones could surf the web without restrictions that schools usually set.
3. Images of teachers and other students will end up on the web breaking privacy laws and undoubtably posted without fair and biased coverage.
4. Drug deals and fights can be arranged at a specific time via texting which lead to safety issues in an already tough enviornment.
Bottom line....the job of a teacher is already tougher than it has ever been ...why would anyone try to make it tougher?...that's like pouring gasoline in an attempt to put out a fire!
If I were that teacher I would sue the parents for character defamation.

Tony of IL 10:23PM April 29, 2009

Parents can go on line and look up the standard course of study to see what is being taught in the class room. Teachers are already monitored by the administration. During the test, students have also been caught text ing the answers to tests.
To judge good teachers from bad, the playing field must be equal - same amount of discipline problems, same reading levels, and same amount of special ed students. Then pre test and post test.
I don't see other professionals being monitored half as much as the teacher profession.

JDGarrish of NC 11:49AM April 07, 2009