Many schools in the UK are being fitted with CCTV cameras. The claim is that they are to protect teachers from unruly brats, however, the teachers claim they are being used to spy upon them.

Many of the Government’s semi-independent academies have installed cameras and two-way mirrors to let senior staff monitor pupils, they say.

But the 160,000-strong Association of Teachers and Lecturers fears that the systems are being used by heads to monitor staff performance, putting teachers’ ability to work independently at risk.

Somebody, somewhere convinced the British people that CCTV is the solution to all their problems. Only now, they are realizing, too late, that CCTV can’t, won’t, and isn’t able to solve anything.