Yesterday, another young preschool teacher was arrested for "abuse" caught on camera as evidence.
She allegedly pulled a child's hair and kicked the child.
Certainly it would be unforgivable if the children or their parents were treated unreasonably, and if there were surveillance cameras, it would be hard evidence to move the case.
It is the most powerful weapon to bring an incident to light.
However, the inclusion of surveillance cameras in educational facilities is based on the premise that trust in education has been undermined in the first place.
They are already planning to use violence, corporal punishment, and other inappropriate behavior against preschoolers.
If it is an educational site that needs to be monitored, then parents should not allow their children in that preschool.
The inclusion of surveillance cameras means that there has been a distrust of the preschool's education from the beginning.
How can you truly interact with and educate a child under camera surveillance?
All schools, even elementary and higher schools, now have surveillance cameras for suspicious persons.
Is this a no-brainer....
It also serves as a deterrent to intruders.
We do not intend to make it a sanctuary or a special place, but a place where children and teachers come into contact with each other is a place where mutual trust can only be established.
If monitoring is absolutely necessary, there is already no mutual trust.
Is it all good to bring everything to light, to make things visible and evidential?
Is that the only thing that is democratic and responsive to trendy disclosure and accountability?
And is it necessary to continue daring to beat them, even though anyone who beats them will be dusted?
By putting distrust-based surveillance cameras in the field where children and teachers come into contact with each other, the content of that relationship is clearly different than it would be without the cameras.
We should recognize that we have more to lose than we think.
After all, we should return education to the days of the terakoya, and entrust the education of our precious children to people who know them well on a regular basis.