What do you think about surveillance cameras in school bathrooms?

Ok so when I was a sophomore in high school, I got high before first period. The high really kicked in during second period, so after that class I decided to hide out in the bathroom so I wouldn’t get in trouble (if a teacher saw me acting like a lunatic during class). I got busted. How? There was a freaking surveillance camera in the bathroom, and they caught me on tape. I know drugs are bad and what I did was WRONG (but I haven’t done drugs since, plus I got half a month’s suspension..I’m a good girl now, and really does getting high at school just that once make me bad?), but does the school have a right to spy on students in the BATHROOM? Legally and morally?

seems like a invasion of privacy to me but….supreme court decisions (New Jersey Vs T.L.O. I think) say that it is the responsibility of the school to maintain an educational environment and thus 4th amendment privacy expectations for students are somewhat eased.

what makes a person “bad” is a different spectrum all together, I did many “bad” things in high school and since then as well, I don’t feel it makes me a “bad” person, on the contrary my trials of sorts have built character if anything. It’s not solely what you do, it’s who you are in mind and practice.

Personally I think a camera in a bathroom is more morally wrong than drugs at school. I don’t condone drugs, and you certainly don’t have the right to do them or have them on school property, but I think they’re much less a threat than the limitation of individual right to privacy. So while I can’t justify snorting lines off the back of a toilet, I can certainly tell you that the school watching you in the bathroom is kinda if’y.

Hope this helps you out in some way

***If you’re interested in researching it, you may look into employers placing cameras in bathrooms, seems like there was a case (some cases?) about that not too many years back.

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