South Carolina teacher react to a house bill that should record all the lessons in the classroom

Rock Hill, SC – South Carolina teacher react to an invoice that would dictate that they are recorded all day and all day while teaching in the classroom. Zane Cina from WCCB Charlotte spoke to the primary sponsor and educator of the law, who oppose them.

A rock Hill teacher who did not want to be identified said she was concerned about the consequences of House Bill 3216. The invoice would make it mandatory that all K-12 lessons are recorded. According to the text of the law, this would be extended to teaching lectures, guest lectures, teaching discussions and other teaching activities, regardless of whether they are carried out personally or practically. “It just feels like teachers are not treated as experts,” said the Rock Hill teacher.

The primary sponsor of the draft law is the Republican of Greenville County, representative Mike Burns. Sarita Edgerton, a Republican from Spartanburg County, was added as a co-sponsor in early February. House representative. Burns spoke to the WCCB on Thursday to explain what he hopes that his proposed bill will achieve. Burns argued that new rules have removed telephones from the classroom for many school districts near South Carolina. Burns believes that it makes it more difficult to keep teacher lessons in chess. The representative pointed out examples of educators who teach subjects that are not included in the state's curriculum, which he believes that it should contradict what should be taught to the students.

“We reported cases and children have recorded some things that teached teachers who had not authorized the school districts,” said Burns. “They taught some of this bright agenda where they sexualized children and talked all sorts of transs … and the parents were not aware of this.”

The President of South Carolina Education Association, Sherry East, described the proposed legislation as a “Gotcha draft”, which is only an instrument for monitoring teacher actions. “It's a Gotcha bill,” said East. “For example, we teachers want to catch what they shouldn't do.” East also questioned how the legislation could be implemented at all while pointing out additional cost concerns that indicated for each of the more than 1,100 schools in 79 districts in South Carolina in South Carolina.

In the proposed legislation, he would oblige that all lessons are made available to the public for five years through the law on the freedom of information of the state or FOIA. Bill text also describes that it is at individual schools to hide school and teacher identities in records. East argued that this would need a huge amount of additional resources for each school district, and she fears that they could introduce a security concern for students and teachers. “There are many bad people out there who like to get children into their hands,” said East, “I feel like this [bill] would open it for it. “

WCCB surveyed burns how the schools will afford for the installation and care of additional cameras for every classroom. Burns believes that the state's educational budget is possible, which in his opinion is currently almost 15 billion US dollars. “You have cameras everywhere in these schools,” said Burns, “so you don't talk about a lot more money to have cameras in classrooms.”

A Rock Hill teacher believes that some schools are currently underfunded and that money could be better used for additional cameras in other areas. “We will spend all this money on cameras,” said the teacher, “where some schools do not have a functioning heat or no working atmosphere.”

Bill 3216 says that every school that does not meet the recording requirements or FOIA provisions is confronted with punishments that can include fines or even administrative measures. The draft law was forwarded to the Committee on Education and Public Work. Burns assumes that it will stop there until April, since the house currently has to do with higher priority objects such as the state's budget. Burns hopes that his bill can pass the house.

A representative of the state of House, who did not want to be called speculates Bill 3216, will not be able to manage beyond the house floor, since some see it as a more radical approach to solve the problems that go hand in hand with the topic of instructors.

Pedagogues would like to inform the parents about this proposed invoice in order to illuminate problems in connection with the lessons. “It can definitely be seen an eye opening where the priorities are,” said a Rock Hill teacher.