Big Brother will soon be “enrolling” in the Israeli school system. On Sunday, the Education Ministry issued a policy review on security and surveillance cameras in schools, schoolyards, lunchrooms, and other areas. The bottom line: Israeli kids can expect to be under the “all-seeing eye,” except, perhaps, when they go to the bathroom.
Currently, 60% of high schools and 30% of elementary schools have cameras installed. However, the cameras were installed without a set policy, at the whim of a principal or parents’ committee, and did not necessarily cover trouble areas of buildings. In its new policy statement, the Ministry heartily endorses cameras to cover as many areas of the school grounds as possible, “to provide extra protection and to allow authorities to track violence, bullying, and alcohol, smoking, and drug use.”
Principals will have the authority to decide what cameras to install and where to install them. Cameras may be installed in order to protect students and faculty from violence, theft, and terrorism. All steps must be taken to ensure student privacy, however; in circumstances where a security guard or a teacher can be placed on patrol, for example, there might not be any need for cameras, the policy statement says.
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