Should schools have CCTV in changing rooms and toilets?

[Beaglefox4]

In the news today there was a report (Big Brother Watch) by a civil liberties campaign group of schools in Britain having more than 100,000 cameras in their playgrounds, classrooms and even toilets and changing rooms. I personally find outrageous, inexplicable and rather creepy. www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/48975/should-schools-have-cctv-changing-rooms-and-toilets but a lot of people don't seem to fazed by it preferring it for safety reasons . Thoughts?

I work in a school and there's just been a flurry of interest because of the imagined 'watching of children in the toilets'. The cameras are directed on the washbasins only and bullying incidents since they were installed is virtually non-existant.

inSomerset - I'm curious, has bullying stopped completely, or do you just mean bullying in the toilets?

I have no objections to CCTV cameras in schools and it does help to prevent bullying.