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Prankster813
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School petitions
Recently in my school they decided to put CCTV everywhere they could think of (toilets, cafeteria, school hall etc.) a lot of people aren't happy about this (as you would expect.) so me and a few friends decided we were going to make a petition, do any of you have advice on how to go about this?
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" - Voltaire
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance." - Noam Chomsky
"Blessed are the Cheesemakers" - Monty Python
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love thy neighbour turn him in, it's called patriotism" - KMFDM
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Prankster813
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Yes, the school have put CCTV in the bathrooms, this is the main reason we want to make a petition to have them removed, most people can deal with cameras in other places but pretty much everyone agrees that cameras in the bathrooms are just taking the piss (pun slightly intended). A lot of people want them removed but are worried that they won't be taken seriously/get into trouble for "answering back to a teacher". So I was wondering if anybody had any advice on making a petition and convincing teachers to take it seriously instead of dismissing it? as far as I can tell the UK doesn't have any privacy laws that would affect the schools decision since they made us aware of the cameras and they are outside the stalls.
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" - Voltaire
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance." - Noam Chomsky
"Blessed are the Cheesemakers" - Monty Python
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love thy neighbour turn him in, it's called patriotism" - KMFDM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2016 06:24 AM by Prankster813.)
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