cctv cameras in school bathrooms

smiling_girl

just wondering what are people's opinions of having cameras in school bathrooms? not in the actual cubicles but watching the common area of the bathrooms ?

Bobalicious93

Why on earth would they be necessary?

If someone wanted to do something they shouldn't be doing they'd just rip it off the wall anyway.

norwegianwood

Eh, trying to see if there's anyone smoking probably. Cameras are a bit extreme though.

Bucklesman

It's a bit intrusive imo. My old secondary had them in one of the lads jacks, supposedly to catch people writing graffiti.

I'm not convinced they were ever turned on though.

suitcasepink

Say they were to stop people smoking/mitching etc..
Would this not continue just in the cubicles?

manutd

My old school had, one is the sink area of the bathroom, the onews which can be moved to any place.

Jay P

norwegianwood wrote: »

Eh, trying to see if there's anyone smoking probably. Cameras are a bit extreme though.

What about smoke detectors? When I was in 2nd year, smoking was pretty much totally eradicated by a mixture of smoke detectors, people being able to smell the smoke coming out the door, and teachers seeing all the muppets inside when the door was open. Also, the door into the toilets was only ever closed when people were smoking.

I'd personally be very freaked out by cameras in the jacks, no matter where they were pointing. There are other ways of stamping out vandalism, mitching and smokig.

SarcasticFairy

My old school had cameras in the boys bathrooms to stop them generally being complete fúcking scumbags, because it was actually getting unreal.....

It seemed to work. In fairness, the guys only had one bathroom (the girls had two, even though there was more boys ) and stuff was just getting beyond disgusting, so they had to do something. Possibly slightly intrusive, but meh.

KateC92

they have one in the sink area in our school but everyone knows that it's a fake

eVeNtInE

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Stev_o

Considering they are in a school the chances are that no one looks at them unless a incident is reported due to the fact that your hardly going to bother hiring anyone to monitor them for 9 hours during the day. They ll be only used when a incident happens or if say the principal had suspicions that something was going on at a certain time.

Pygmalion

They're not in the cubicles so I don't see why it's any different to having them in the corridors or anything, I don't mind someone seeing me wash my hands, and it's a public place so I don't really expect privacy.

mink_man

no...

AntoSRFC

Stev_o wrote: »

Considering they are in a school the chances are that no one looks at them unless a incident is reported due to the fact that your hardly going to bother hiring anyone to monitor them for 9 hours during the day. They ll be only used when a incident happens or if say the principal had suspicions that something was going on at a certain time.

Haha you would be suprised. My vice principal has 42" plasma on his wall in his office with live feeds of all the cameras in the school. None in the bathrooms but there is mic in it that picks up if anyone is in there. Bit OTT if ye ask me.

Stev_o

AntoSRFC wrote: »

Haha you would be suprised. My vice principal has 42" plasma on his wall in his office with live feeds of all the cameras in the school. None in the bathrooms but there is mic in it that picks up if anyone is in there. Bit OTT if ye ask me.

Not really that actually makes sense (the main monitor not the microphones) that's what usually a normal setup would be but i very much doubt your principal spends his 12 or so hours in school staring at a monitor.

Cian92

Stev_o wrote: »

Considering they are in a school the chances are that no one looks at them unless a incident is reported due to the fact that your hardly going to bother hiring anyone to monitor them for 9 hours during the day. They ll be only used when a incident happens or if say the principal had suspicions that something was going on at a certain time.

Well in our school, there in the principals office and it seems to me he sits there monitoring them for most of the day watching them. The amount of times someones been called out over the PA system because "I can see you at the locker from my office, come up to my office immediately"

But fortuneately there are none in the bathrooms.

Baile an Locha

I'd agree with them because of the amount of damage done by a small gang of scumbags.....toilets broken,sinks ripped off walls,fuses taken out of the hand dryer (creative but still scumbag ish),
Everyday the floor of the lads jacks is flooded,really annoying.
We want the CCTV cameras but apparently they can't put them in...legally.