Florida bill would allow cameras in classrooms and microphones on teachers
Republican state legislators in Florida are mulling passing
a bill that would force teachers to wear microphones in class so that parents could monitor the lessons they're teaching students. The legislation is being pitched by Florida State Rep. Bob Rommel, who says that he believes that teachers can be monitored constantly without any infringements on privacy.
"I think if we can do it in a safe way to protect the privacy of students and teachers, I think we should do it," Rommel said. "I haven't heard a response good or bad from any teachers, but … it's not their private space. It's our children's space, too."
But Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco tells CBS that she's worried that people will be discouraged from entering the teaching profession if parents can monitor them at all times and criticize the lessons they're giving.
"You want to play Big Brother every moment?" she asked. "That's not how society should be. We need to get back to where we have trust, we have value, we have faith and we have conversations and we can work things out if something happens."
"If one parent wants it, the camera goes in the room. If the other 10 parents don't want it, they don't have a say," she said. "It can be looked at any time. We don't know how they're going to keep in in record, so they never get that piece out. And also the funding -- there is no funding," Fusco said.
She warns that the proposal could discourage even more people from turning to teaching in Florida.
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Honestly, people. 
but am I far off?
They also are proposing that parents who object to something in the curriculum will be able to have the teacher develop an entirely different curriculum for their little darling. Which means that a teacher with 30 students per class could be required to have 30 different lesson plans for each class. For high school teachers who have 100+ students each day, that could be 100 different plans.
That said, parents don't come to open houses, skip out on parent-teacher meetings, don't join the PTA. The performance artists who show up to scream at school board members are small in number (and in brains).
They use facial recognition cameras on the streets but I haven't heard of them monitoring classrooms. Maybe they just need some totalitarian advice from the GQP.
