How would you feel about sending your daughter to a school
that had cameras installed in the girls’ bathroom? Not good, if you’re anything
like Anthony White, who withdrew his 14-year-old daughter from a Wales
school after he learned that the girls’ bathroom had been equipped with cameras to prevent “horseplay.”
I can understand White's outrage. The school’s response to his concerns about
his daughter’s privacy seems so willfully ignorant as to be creepy. Officials
claim that the cameras were installed due to reports that soap and paper towels
were being misused (the horror!), and the bathrooms are now much cleaner.
"Toilets can be areas where misbehavior occurs,"
officials calmly explained to the outraged father. True, but I would argue that hidden cameras in teen girls’ restrooms can
also be “areas where misbehavior occurs."
Photo: BBC
