CCTV in classrooms

[BrightMauveLion]

What would your thoughts be if your Headteacher announced that audio recording CCTV was being installed in all classrooms? There wouldn’t be any live images, and they would only be used for behaviour/safeguarding incidents.

Depends on the culture of your school.

A supportive one who will back you up? Go for it. One school I worked in had CCTV in every room (no audio) and it was very helpful when something was stolen and when a colleague had a false allegation made against her.

A school which insists that when the adult changes, the child magically also changes and which bows to a parent's every whim? Nope, I'd be out; they'll find a way to blame you.

Are they planning on using it for training, too? I'd be on the fence, again, culture-dependent.

I think audio only would be a bit strange if the purpose was for behaviour or safeguarding. Images only would make more sense.

I understood the OP to mean video and audio-recording, but that the images weren't being monitored live, just could be referred back to.

Depends on the school and whether they feel it will be beneficial?

In my honest opinion, it will be very expensive for not only the systems but the installation. Are they going to be wireless cameras stored to a cloud? Going to need a LOT of storage for this!

I’d just have them in corridors, external entrances and exits for burglary purposes, school hall, canteen, any offices/rooms that have safes or where money is managed!

Don’t see the need for audio recording unless the HT thinks that this is the new version of classroom observation…..

We use Iris to record lessons or parts of lessons but that is something staff have total control of. I can look at my recordings and share if I want to. It is useful up to a point. It's also useful with tricky classes, the sort of class for which you need eyes in the back of your head.

I would not be happy with recording lessons outside of my control. But also agree with a previous poster that I'm not sure how realistic it would be unless you're in a tiny school.

I would want to know who has access, where the recordings will be stored. How long will it all be stored for? What parameters will be used to look / listen to the recordings? Would parents ever be allowed to hear it? Basically I would want a lot of reassurance on how the recordings would be used.

Audio all the time?!
Or, just in lesson time?
Sounds very Big Brother...