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South Korea tries 'bully cams' to protect students
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January 14, 2010, Thursday
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Most South Korean schools will be equipped with a network of closed circuit TV cameras in the next two years to keep an eye out for bullies roaming campuses, an Education Ministry official said today.
Bullying has been an endemic problem in the country with about one in five students saying they have been victims. It has also led numerous students each year committing suicide.
"The cameras will be installed in places we have designated as 'out of reach by teachers' and will be monitored by school staff round the clock," said a ministry official.
Cameras would be installed around school grounds but not in classrooms, where teachers are supposed to be present, or in bathrooms, due to privacy concerns, the ministry said in a plan it released this week on protecting children.
Video footage would be kept for a month and then deleted.
The high-tech country also plans to equip all elementary schools with a monitoring system that informs parents by messages over mobile phones that their children have arrived and departed from school grounds.
The text-messaging notification system is designed to ease concerns of parents on whether their elementary-school age children have arrived safely and inform them of when they leave.
It would work by children carrying an electronic ID card that can be monitored by sensors set up at all school entrances. Once the card passes a gateway, the text message would be sent automatically.
The ministry plans to use the system for first to third graders, believing that older children could more easily find ways to evade the plan.
Bullying has been an endemic problem in the country with about one in five students saying they have been victims. It has also led numerous students each year committing suicide.
"The cameras will be installed in places we have designated as 'out of reach by teachers' and will be monitored by school staff round the clock," said a ministry official.
Cameras would be installed around school grounds but not in classrooms, where teachers are supposed to be present, or in bathrooms, due to privacy concerns, the ministry said in a plan it released this week on protecting children.
Video footage would be kept for a month and then deleted.
The high-tech country also plans to equip all elementary schools with a monitoring system that informs parents by messages over mobile phones that their children have arrived and departed from school grounds.
The text-messaging notification system is designed to ease concerns of parents on whether their elementary-school age children have arrived safely and inform them of when they leave.
It would work by children carrying an electronic ID card that can be monitored by sensors set up at all school entrances. Once the card passes a gateway, the text message would be sent automatically.
The ministry plans to use the system for first to third graders, believing that older children could more easily find ways to evade the plan.
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