April 2, 2004

New Lesson at School: Living in a Surveillance Society 101

Children born in the last decade of the 20th Century may be the first generation in our nation to learn to accept living in a surveillance society as being the norm. When children attending Graystone Academy Charter School are told that they had “better watch out” and that they had “better be good”, because their parents might be watching they can look at the video camera installed in every classroom and believe that the warnings are true. As these children mature and take on adult responsibilities within society will they really understand what privacy once meant to their parents and grandparents?

In many area schools, the cameras are always on, Inquirer. April 02, 2004