As we enter this new school year, the discussions of school safety and in class behavior come again, and we’re at the same place again, disconnected. We can assure you that a strong push to eliminate student cell phones is growing and only makes sense as we know the distractions is negatively effecting student attention, and achievement. But we also understand parents and guardians want some means of knowing what’s happening in their kids classroom. And we again wish the concept of body cams for teachers will be considered seriously.
Originally published May 13, 2025-
It’s truly amazing what we’ve experienced in the last 21+ months, for parents and children here in the State of North Carolina, since this was originally published. Our North Carolina General Assembly has stepped up and done some incredible work. They’ve made it illegal for any licensed professional to participate in the “Transitioning” of ANY child under the age of 18, with real consequences. They’ve made it illegal for “biological boys” to compete in girls’ sports from middle school through college. And they’ve passed a “Parents Bill of Rights” to promote parent’s access to what their children are being exposed to/taught in their classes. But we believe that the subject we approached in this blog over 16 months ago, still needs further consideration to complete/confirm the good work they’ve done. We still advocate for “Body Cams” on ALL classroom personnel. And we’ll use the liberals argument they use for so many subjects, “If the classroom personnel have nothing to hide, why would they have a problem wearing a “body cam” in their classroom?” What do you think?
Originally published February 7, 2023:
There are many dynamics that are playing out in our Country today, some of which are very disturbing. All of which can be directly traced back to what the National Government, through its bullying and bribing of State and local school districts, has been forcing on our schools for the last 30+ years. Yes, yes, yes, I can already hear the “Conspiracy Theory” outcry, but it’s no longer a “conspiracy” when the facts are exposed.
As we were put through the totally unscientific response to COVID-19, I have noticed some very positive results from the “Law of Unintended Consequences”. The biggest one to me is that, for the first time in these same 30+ years, parents were given open access to the manure that the current “educators” are shoveling in to our next generation’s minds full of mush. And what we’ve seen isn’t pretty. Or really teaching children much of anything. But now that we have “gone back to normal” in most schools this year, we must not just go back to sleep and let the Educrats continue, their destroying of the future of our Country, through the classroom. So, what do we do to change this?
I believe we have to open up the classrooms, to EVERY parent and Citizen, who wants to know what is being “taught” in their public school classrooms, to their child(ren). This should include the reconstitution of PTAs/PTOs to their rightful place in the governance of EVERY school, the opening of classrooms up to the old-fashioned idea of “classroom parents”, and probably the most controversial, putting Citizen accessible cameras in EVERY classroom. I realize that there are some security concerns that must be addressed, but none of those are as important as not allowing the classrooms to return to being the silos of secrecy that they have been for the last 3 decades.
If we can put “body cameras” on every Law Enforcement Officer, then we should be able to put “body cameras” on every teacher. Why? Because a teacher can do more damage, for their future, to any child, than a Law Enforcement Officer can do to a possible criminal. I’m pretty sure that if the technology had been available at the time, most of my teachers would have had no problem with this. But today, I can hear the teachers union members’ heads exploding when presented with the idea.
I first started thinking about school cameras when a friend of mine’s child was assaulted and injured by a school employee 3+ years ago and she is still looking for resolution. If it had been on camera, it could have been quickly and easily resolved. And as bad as that was, what’s being done in every classroom in this Country today, to the next generation, is much more long-term consequential. I guess we thank the overreaction to COVID-19 for revealing this to parents, who in turn, told We The People? Well, let’s not let this opportunity for correction go to waste.
God Bless America! And America, PLEASE Bless God Again!
