A few months ago Lola asked if cameras should be mandatory. It's been a while and I think we already have the answer: yes, no doubt, and urgently. Urgent because in recent days there are still cases of abuse of children, or of caregivers who medicate them to be sleepy, or worse.
Faced with such cases, and although the educators may seem very nice and affectionate, we must not forget that we trust our children, our dearest beings, the most important of our lives. Yes, nurseries or nursery schools have to have cameras and now I argue why.
It is not pleasant to read this news, but you have to know that they happen because they are the places where we leave you trusting that they will be fine, without being able to control them in any way. We do not know that they are well, we simply believe it because we trust those who care for them, but you know, sometimes who least expect it can do the most horrible things. The strongest thing is that all are news of this month, recent.
Two New York teachers arrested for abuse
Two teachers at a Long Island nursery were arrested last week accused of force children to eat, push them and pull them forcibly. Both were in charge of babies from 4 to 18 months.
Two New Jersey teachers arrested for abuse
Two teachers at a Cranford nursery in New Jersey have been accused of inciting violence to the children they were caring for. Apparently they created a kind of Children's Fight Club, urging the children to fight and then record them with the mobile and share the videos with their friends. In this case, the children were from 4 to 6 years old (there the nurseries are the kindergarten or kindergarten, which covers more years than our nurseries).
A teacher from Chihuahua, Mexico, in prison for burning a child
A teacher at a daycare center in Chihuahua, Mexico, was arrested and is in custody accused of burning one of the children she cared for with boiling water. The two-year-old boy was trying to teach him to control the sphincters and was not wearing a diaper. At some point she failed to contain herself and stained her pants and the caregiver, angry, he decided to give him a lesson by putting him in boiling water. She probably didn't consider that the burns would be so obvious and painful that they would accuse her of it.
Five workers are fired for abuse at Apple Montessori School in New Jersey
Through the use of a camera (probably a drone), some workers at the Apple Montessori School in Hoboken, New Jersey, looked after the children using more strength than necessary and recommended with children. Those responsible decided to fire five workers.
In a nursery they gave medication to the children to be sleepy
It happened in Bryan, Oklahoma, where children who went to a daycare center were drugged with Benadryl, a drug that acts as an antihistamine, sedative and hypnotic, with which they managed not to have to work too hard to care for children.
And the right to privacy of workers?
Workers have the right to privacy and intimacy during the course of their workday and that is why putting cameras is not an easy matter for employers. However, if there are circumstances that may require them (in a store, in a bank, etc.), they can be placed after explaining to the workers that there will be cameras, where they will be and what the function is.
Well, if we talk about children, and especially if we talk about babies, it is clear that where they are and can be alone with other adults there should be cameras. And not only in nurseries, but also in schools. How many children have suffered physical and psychological abuse, or even sexual abuse without the parents even knowing Until a while has passed.
There are cameras in shopping centers, in stores, in banks, in pharmacies, etc., to protect material goods and money, But there are no cameras to protect minors from undesirable adults? Well, we are doing something wrong. The nurseries should have cameras now, as soon as possible, urgently, and not to record the caretakers making misdeeds, but also to deter them from doing them.
There are already nurseries with cameras, in fact. And they are a plus when it comes to offering their services, because in many cases they are IP cameras that can be accessed from outside, using a password. So parents, when they want and from wherever they want, can access them and see, at all times, what their child is doing and how he plays and has fun with his caregiver, his teacher and his new trusted person, because they trust they. They don't really have to be so modern, but certainly parents are more confident to know that there is a certain vigilance that they don't have to think about whether their son's blow has done it alone, he has done it another child or the caretaker has done it.
