Should camera be in Special Education Classrooms

Because we live in a trying time and abusive people don't think they are abusive and they need to be monitored for the safety of children.

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I have a very sweet child with special needs whom was restrained with mechanical restraints and secluded from other children for no other teason then to make it easier on the teacher

children with special needs who are unable to talk(like my daughter) can not tell you what has happened to them at school when they come home with bruises on them and the school said it was self inflected !!!!

They would give a voice to our non-verbal children as well as protect innocent staff. It would also save millions in court proceedings as video/audio evidence would prevail.

Cameras can also be used for training inexperienced. Staff may not even realize they are being overly aggressive until they see themselves recorded in action.

I am Tara Heidinger, the one mentioned in this story. I will be responding to a few comments on here. Thank you for doing this. Happen to run across it when Googling my name. I will post on FB Awareness page Cameras In Special Needs Classrooms. I have done over 90 stories of special needs children being abused by their staff members. this is NEVER a waste of money and this is about the safety and protection of the children and staff. I saw well wroth the money. Texas has a Bill now for Cameras in Special Ed classrooms and they only expect this to cost 3 million for the entire state. Privacy concerns should NEVER be an issue inside the classrooms. Yes locker rooms , bathrooms and Conference rooms BUT NOT THE CLASSROOMS! Safety of the children will over-ride any privacy concerns the schools may have. These children can not go home and tell there parents how there day was. Please think about these children and their lives. Thank you, owner of Cameras in special needs classrooms Awareness.

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behaviors can 'change quickly', and need to be monitored!
and to insure the 'staff' r doing a 'great job'!

not everyone can be taught normally and sometimes the problems are caused by the child. it just keeps the playing field level

tsk. tsk blaming the child is whole lot easy then blaming the systems

it is not always your child, remember there is always an agitator in every class, it can be a student or a teacher or some outside force. a camera does keep the playing field level for all

I have a daughter with autism. Prior to 9-11 I was a frequent visitor to the classroom and made certain that my daughter's education was on track, she was not allowed to just slide by, and ensured that all facets of her education were what they should be. After 9-11 I was not allowed to go to her classroom as much. I arrived at her classroom to pick her up for a dr's appt one day to find an aide leading her to answers on a test. I discovered from viewing her classwork, which she brought home to review, that the teacher was allowing her to plagiarize for a report. My daughter was robbed of almost two years of her education because I was not there to monitor her progress on a regular basis.

There were incidents that I viewed with my own two eyes that were allowed to occur while I WAS THERE and I protested. These incidents involved not monitoring students appropriately. My daughter came home, on occasion, with bruises and scratches from being hit by one of the students who was violent.

I would have loved to have been able to log into my computer to see what was going on in that classroom. Instead, I removed our daughter and home schooled her to ensure that she had a decent education. She is now fine and in college - not thanks to the school...

Very well said my friend:)

I agree

Surveillance is already out of control...but places where abuse/discipline issues are reported should consider installing something.

Exactly so why not protect these children who have no voice to protect themselves?

It protects the students.

Hey everyone we are bankrupt!! The solution? Waste more money!!!

It's a waste of money to protect our children? Really?

Really? Our children need to be put in the hitler youth?

Our special needs children need to be protected. According to your profile, you are a 21 year old kid (at least to me) and have no clue as to what having a special needs child entails and how people harm them and take advantage of them... Yes, even teachers.

Do tell me what is it you fear? Is it they are beating them? Sexual assualt? What? If so then do not send them. You belive that having cameras will stop this? There are places in schools with no cameras what so ever. Special needs people should not be put in public schools in the first place, what would be the benfit of them being there? They are special needs as harsh as this sounds they are unable to take advantage of such a thing. They should be supported only by their family if they wish to choose to do so, not my or anyone else's tax dollars.

Please please for the good of all man kind... don't procreate; I shudder to think of what would happen if you had a child that was different!

Why let the abuse to continue to the other children in the classrooms. Our children need education! THAT IS WHAT SCHOOLS ARE FOR! Catch the staff doing crime on cameras and charge her with a crime. Taking any teaching licence away and NEVER be able to work around children again. That sounds better than just removing our children from these schools. Why not punish the punish. WHY SHOULD WE EVER HAVE TO REMOVE OUR CHILDREN FROM SCHOOL!!!

People like you is another reason we need cameras. It's obvious you are heartless and self righteous. People like you have no problem neglecting a human that you deem less than worthy. I will pray for your soul.

Actually Hilter separated those with special needs and secretly performed hideous scientific tests. These tests consists of how much torture could a human body experience before it died. Hilter would be AGAINST cameras. Please educate yourself before you defend your idiotic opinion.

Do you realize that many school systems are paying out milions of dollar in long court Process. The lawyers and settlements!. With cameras we can get the truth, open and shut case. Do you realize that your tax paying dollars are paying for these abusers court cost and settlements? Do you realize that schools have so many cover ups? Do you realize how many special needs children are being abused by staff? Do you realize that cameras do not cost very much and its not like there are a lot of special Ed classrooms in every school? You have to think about this stuff before assuming it is a waste of money. BTW The schools are not going bankrupt. They have plenty. Children safety comes first ALWAYS!

It protects everyone involved. I've seen instances of abuse, but I've also seen some special needs people go off on violent tangents before too.

It is the trend of this nation..It is a police state anyway so just put up more cameras and do more spying!

It's not spying if _I_ want to see what is happening to MY child.

Well that is good but believe me the government is spying on us! This technology can be used for the good but what happens when your Hitlers get hold of this technology..Hitler would of loved having it..I look at the big picture!

This would be security cams, not nany cams. Would not have internet access.

Again, please educate yourself before defending your uneducated opinion as it pertains to special needs. Hilter would be completely AGAINST cameras for this particular purpose it would continue to allow him to perform unlawful and inhumane experiments on the special needs people.

LOL, I don't have an uneducated opinion..Read the book 1984 and educate yourself..Hitler would of loved to have the technology we have today..He would of killed a lot more Jews by spying on them, tapping their phone lines, etc! Don't feed me your BS..I know a lot on what the NWO is doing in the world!

I said 'as it pertains to special needs' or did your heartless being even completely read my reply instead of jumping into a ignorant defense. I also know all too well of Hilter as my family fell victim to him. Why aren't you protesting traffic cameras instead of cameras that actually defend our citizens?

I got a special needs child too and I have not problem with this but I do have a problem with government spying on me..Believe me I know..Don't argue with me because you will lose..Wow no friends? Must be a sock??

How is installing a camera in a contained classroom spying on your rights? Again, use your time more effectively by protesting traffic cameras where the government is actually spying in you. Why use your ignorant evil here? Personal attacks on me are ineffective but feel free to keep trying. LOL ;)

The truth is the truth..You are a sock..Now getting back to what you said..You need to learn to read..That is okay but its not okay when government uses technology to spy on its citizens..They are doing it and don't tell me they are not..look at TSA??

Yes this is for the safety and protection of both the special needs children and staff. These are our children who are coming home abused. It is called catching the crime and removing the guilty away from schools. The abusers are always getting jobs other places after just abusing a child in another school. The staff are protected and our children have no voice to tell. Safety is the Key word. Not spying.