In one of this years, ARDC we got the approval for my son to tape record the "lectures" but the teacher had to turn it off and on and it couldn't be while instructions were being given. So I searched for answers and here is where the SD's are wrong in the confidentiality catch all statement!
Here is what I sent to them and of course received no response! Yet this case law makes a very strong point!
Here is the case law Plock V. Bd of Educ. Of Freeport sch. Dist no. 145,07 c 50060, (N.D.I11. December 18, 2007).
It basically stated that there is no expectation of privacy as to what is said in a classroom. What is said and done in a public classroom is not merely liable to being overheard and repeated, but is likely to be overheard and repeated. The court cited Evens v. The superior court of los Angeles county, 77 Cal. App. 4th 320, 325 (2nd Dist 1999)
(finding teachers expectations that her communications would be confined to the classroom unreasonable that such communications "will virtually never be confined to the classroom," and that students "will and usually do, discuss a teachers communications and activities with their parents other students, and other teachers and administrators.")Any expectations of privacy about communications taking place in the public education classroom subject to the proposed audio monitoring in this case was found to be inherently unreasonable and beyond the protections of the fourth amendment.
I believe we should have free access to observe our children at anytime while in their classes! We are the SEA more than the ones who are suppose to be doing the monitoring!