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Schools are routinely using CCTV cameras to spy on pupils and ensure
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teachers are working hard enough, according to research.

Children and teachers are being subjected to "permanent surveillance" as Web Dev and UX
school leaders use footage to make judgements on lesson standards, it Design
was claimed.

In many cases, teachers are unable to turn off cameras in their

classroom, even when they are having sensitive and personal Dozens of private
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Research by the NASUWT union found that one teacher was sent an tables training
email during a maths lesson "asking me to inform pupils he was watching
them on CCTV".

It follows a report from 2012 that suggested at least 100,000 cameras Is it time for
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were installed in classrooms and corridors across Britain, with 90 per cent
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The NASUWT questioned about 7,500 teachers as part of a survey into
the surveillance culture in schools.

Around one-in-12 0 - eight per cent - said that CCTV was installed in their
classrooms.

Of these, two-thirds said cameras were introduced for pupil safety, but 31
per cent believed they were to monitor behaviour standards. Another 15
per cent insisted they were designed to help improve teaching standards.

One teacher said: "I was disciplined for visiting another colleague's
classroom which had been recorded on tape .

Another teacher told researchers: "The deputy head sent me an email

during a maths lesson asking me to inform pupils that he was watching
them on CCTV."

One said: "I have seen senior staff members with my head of department
looking at footage in the school office [of a teacher dealing with an
incident with a pupil]. When I asked what the head of department was
doing watching a colleague she said she was trying to catch him out."

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