Vandalism, truancy, violence and other types of unruly behavior is one of the main problem plaguing UK schools nowadays. The effect of influences from families and family problems, peers and other environmental factors such as media have started a chain of influence to the youth of the United Kingdom. We often see students in both high schools and colleges commit acts that are contrary to morals and contrary to the existing policies of the school or colleges. These series of unruly behaviors being exhibited by the youth of the UK nowadays has prompted school authorities to resort to extreme measures in order to monitor the behavior of the students within the school premises. During the past decades, UK schools only rely on their teachers and staffs to monitor the behavior of the students, but with the increasing number of students and the increasing number of unruly conduct exhibited by the students its only a matter of time before a major incident will happen inside one of UK’s schools or colleges, thus prompting school authorities to turn to technology in order to aide them in monitoring the students. The technology that is most applicable in a school setting is though the use of a CCTV camera. It is through this method that students may be monitored by the school administration, this will also monitor the performance and work values of the teachers and the school staffs. Some of UK’s school staffs and teachers have campaigned against the installation of CCTV camera’s inside school premises assailing that the use of CCTV camera inside the school and even inside the classrooms will make the teacher uncomfortable and thus forcing the teacher not to act naturally towards his or her dealings with students. School authorities however showed their support towards the installation of CCTV cameras inside the school because they maintain that surveillance of students, teachers and staff will only be confined into their dealings with the school and not their personal and private transactions or affairs. Furthers, school authorities maintain that the purpose of installing the CCTV cameras inside the school is to protect not only the students, teachers or staff while they are inside the school but also to protect school properties.
Knowing that a security system such as a CCTV camera is installed within the school will give the students a certain degree of fear that would force them to think twice before even committing an act that is contrary to the school’s policies or even those that are contrary to morals. Aside from its preventive effect on students committing acts against school policies, the installation and presence of CCTV camera’s inside the school can also help school authorities identify students who committed acts that are contrary to the school’s policies and regulations. The need to help monitor the discipline of students in the UK has escalated to greater proportions where if nothing is going to be done about it, then the future of the whole educational system and even the society of the United Kingdom will be put in jeopardy.