The all-seeing eye in the school toilet.
British schools are installing security cameras in toilets.
This is how they fight children’s pranks, and at the same time the overuse of toilet paper.
Events in the Kerejan district (Wales, Great Britain) stirred up the entire school community in the country.
As it turned out, the administration of one of the local schools decided to put an end to pampering in the toilets in a very unusual way.
Two months ago, security cameras were installed next to the machines with paper towels and soap, designed to identify naughty people, and at the same time the use of toilet paper “inappropriately,” the BBC reports, citing local authorities.
Parents, having learned about the innovations, became furious and started talking about an “unprecedented invasion” of their children’s privacy.
And many did not want to leave their children under the all-seeing eye and took them away with a scandal.
According to school principal Aaron Rees, nothing special happened at the educational institution he heads.
The installation of cameras, in his opinion, “worked” as well as possible: discipline “has increased significantly,” and there is no trace of any invasion of the privacy of schoolchildren because of this.
“Before, both our students and cleaning staff constantly complained that the guys were constantly messing with the water at the washbasins.
Others were always playing noisy games in the toilets, and others were wasting toilet paper and soap.
After installing the cameras, there were no complaints.
And although this decision was not easy for us, we mainly made it in the interests of the children,” he told one of the local publications.
Moreover. According to the director, it was decided to observe what was happening in the toilets with the consent of the school council and was previously discussed with the students.
They allegedly approved the administration’s decision, and the head of the district school board, Keith Evans, supported the measures to strengthen discipline proposed by the director.
“There is always mischief in the school toilets. And after installing the cameras, at least you won’t have to worry about toilet paper and soap,” he explained the school administration’s unconventional move.
However, parents, to the disappointment of the authors of the idea, did not appreciate the achieved savings in soap and toilet paper.
And Anthony White from Landisul took his 14-year-old daughter out of school, slamming the door goodbye: “This wonderful place is now under the full supervision of Big Brother.
Video cameras are installed throughout the school: outside, inside, in the corridors,” he told local journalists. Being in such an environment, according to the British father, is extremely harmful for the child: this is “a real invasion of privacy,” he believes.
Russian schoolchildren need not fear such a trick: our schools don’t even have money for security alarms, let alone putting cameras in toilets.
However, they should still learn one lesson from the toilet problems of their British peers.
Before making a controversial decision, the principal was forced to discuss it and then seek the approval of the school governing body. That is, the schoolchildren themselves.
Whether they made the right or wrong decision in this case is not important.
The main thing is that the school management cannot ignore their opinion in principle.
Most of our schools still do not have governing councils.
This means that the hands of the domestic school administration are not tied by anything, and theoretically it can make any, even the most idiotic, decision.
This makes the majority of our schoolchildren defenseless against the arbitrariness of the authorities, and even more so before the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.
Moskovsky Komsomolets