{"id":5130,"date":"2014-10-07T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2014-10-07T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:45:58","slug":"education-expo-parents-reasonably-request-nanny-cams-be-placed-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5130","title":{"rendered":"Education Expo: Parents \u2018Reasonably\u2019 Request Nanny Cams be Placed in Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"nanny<\/a>Last night, hundreds of Stapleton parents attended the Education Expo at the High Tech Elementary School\/DSST in the Conservatory Green Neighborhood in Stapleton. The Expo featured administrators and faculty of roughly 30 area schools. New high school Principal Avi Tropper<\/a> was even on hand. The Expo served as an opportunity for parents to visit administrators from current and prospective schools. \u201cWe wanted to get an idea of the different types of schools, and their focus,\u201d said Amy Richardson. \u201cOf course, getting to meet the people in charge of educating our kids is a big bonus as well.\u201d\n\nMost of the Expo included the faculty of the different schools \u2018selling\u2019 their education product to parents, but parents also gave suggestions to school faculty to better help the education process. \u201cI\u2019m not in education,\u201d commented Expo attendee Chris Knight. \u201cBut there are some things that just knowing my kids, and understanding what would be best for them, that I think schools should do. Maybe I should have been in education. I have great ideas.\u201d Kari Brohman agrees. \u201cI was educated, so yeah, I have some ideas on what schools can do to continually improve. And why keep those to myself. I made sure to talk with most of the faculty of the different schools for about 10 minutes each, and shared my thoughts. I\u2019m sure it was really helpful for them.\u201d\n\u201cIt can be frustrating listening to parents sometimes,\u201d says an anonymous faculty attendee. \u201cMost of the people at this expo went to years of schooling to be educators and have dedicated our lives to education. It\u2019s not something you can just whip up and say, \u2018here is what you should be doing.\u2019\u201d Faculty will sometimes receive good feedback, but many times it borders on the bizarre or is over the top. \u201cWell, tonight the big theme that came out was that people think we should install nanny cams<\/a>, or spy cameras in every classroom,\u201d says the faculty attendee. \u201cThey want to be able to see the teacher and the student body in that class at any moment. It is pretty over the top, even for Stapleton.\u201d\n\u201cI love the idea of cameras in the classroom,\u201d says parent Laura Shelton. \u201cThere is no better way to be more involved with your child than to feel like you are right there with them. And now I can see what the teacher is doing all the time, and how the kids are reacting. I am definitely going to push for funds being used for this at Westerly, and I am guessing other area schools will follow.\u201d Caroline Fecht agrees. \u201cThis could be set up very easily,\u201d says Fecht. \u201cWe already have passwords to access information about our kids and the class, now we can just use those passwords to access the appropriate cameras in our child\u2019s classroom.\u201d\nTeachers and administrators are already pushing back. \u201cAt some point, we have to let the teachers and administrators do their jobs and not worry about people constantly looking over their shoulders,\u201d said Superintendent of Schools Tom Boasberg. \u201cAside from being very overbearing, it borders on invasion of privacy. We will definitely fight against this.\u201d Parents have already formed a Facebook Page<\/a> to gain support for the idea. \u201cI understand this is a change, and schools don\u2019t always like change,\u201d said Shelton. \u201cBut, Stapleton is about progress, and I like to think we are often the leader of progress.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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