When the schoolhouse becomes the jailhouse --
Now, as the surveillance state embeds itself in the lives of millions of children, the education bill currently making its way through parliament promises to extend teachers' powers to search pupils to the point that, as the pressure group Liberty puts it, they will be "proportionate to terrorism investigations". Teachers will be able not just to seize phones and computers, but wipe them of any data if they think there "is a good reason to do so" – a move of a piece with new powers to restrain pupils and issue summary expulsions.
Not entirely surprisingly, education secretary Michael Gove casts all this as a matter of copper-bottomed common sense. "Our bill will put heads and teachers back in control, giving them a range of tough new powers to deal with bullies and the most disruptive pupils," he said last year, before he used a very telling phrase: "Heads will be able to take a zero-tolerance approach."
For many people, the idea of school discipline will still be synonymous with Victorian images of cane-wielding teachers, but we now seem to be headed for something much more insidious: authoritarianism for children, sold to students and staff using the dazzle of technology, and the modern vocabulary of the security crackdown.
And all this, you may remember, from a government whose coalition agreement promises "a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government and roll back state intrusion".
Only for grownups, perhaps.
Categories: International, Government, Big Brother, Martial Law, Conspiracy, Public Schools
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Once agian the new world order is putting in another stepping stone to one world goverment now by trying to keep the next generation from expressing their ideas. What happened to parenting? You send your kid to school to learn and if there is a problem with your child, the parent should be the first one who is notified to help resolve the problem. The teacher is there to teach not parent your kids. Why should a teacher have the right to take a cell phone or delete something on acomputer they don't like. The teacher has the the right to notify the parents or parent and that is all. Giving the teacher the right to decide what is right or wrong for your child is not their job. I guess the point I'm trying to make is we as adults are loosing or rights and freedoms, as this isn't enough now the establishment wants to take rights and freedoms from our children too. When is enough, enough. Nothing is personal any more, big brother is watching you and me and our children, what is big brother so scared of? Maybe the fact that if we learn to much about what their plan is that we will put a resistance. Just keep the tachers doing what they were taught to do, teach our children not infringe on their rights.
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The comments in response to this article is alarming, most of the "parents" felt this was ok with them. As long as the cameras weren't on the toilets but in the bathroom...... this is just sick and twisted parenting in my view. Many claimed "what about bullys?" Bullies have always been in school, in every classroom and at every school.... What about teaching these children how to stand up for themselves instead of becoming weak, passive aggressive snitches..... This the problem, we are being taught HOW TO BECOME A VICTIM -- not how to defend ourselves, to stand up for ourselves, to PROTECT ourselves.
Ugh. This article's comments just disgusted me. One person had it right out of many.
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"Our bill will put heads and teachers back in control, "-- How about we put parents back in control. Time for the federales to bow out(make that butt out). It's bad enough you've drugged them and injected them with lethal vaccines. I can see some blowbackcoming.
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What about bulling teachers?
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