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Should the people involved be videoed?

I believe that the people involved should not be videoed. Privacy is of course, what we all have rights to, and nobody likes to have their privacy invaded unless they have completely no dignity at all. If the teacher in the video does indeed behave like she does in the video on a day to day basis, her students would be able to justify her actions if the situation calls for it. There would have been no need to have any videos taken.

Who is at fault?

By looking at the incident from the actual scene (aka the classroom), the teacher would have largely been at fault. Her choice of words and the tone of her voice was uncalled for and if she merely wanted to discipline the student, she could have done so in a less derogatory way. Furthermore, the student is not local and may have difficulty understand what she had expected him to do. Not everyone, even in top schools, are fast learners and it is not easy to get a job well done on the first try. Throughout the whole video, the student was hardly given a chance to explain himself and was constantly shot down by the teacher, which in turn would have harmed his self esteem.

By taking another look from the point of view of the students, the student who videotaped the incident and uploaded on the internet is at fault. Firstly, as stated previously, nobody likes others to intrude on his own privacy and by making the video public has caused the privacy of the teacher's and even the student's to be invaded. The underlying purpose of uploading the video might not be to shed light on the teacher's behaviour, but it could be to give the student a temporary moment of enjoyment of sharing it with his friends. If that was the case, the student clearly did not bear in mind the consequences that were to follow and the damage that would be done to the reputation of the school just by uploading the video. which then causes one to question about his level of maturity

What should not be done?

Yes, perhaps the student could have videotaped it to gather evidence to shed light on the teacher's disciplinary methods. However, the problem is that the student uploaded the video of the incident onto the internet and gave the public full access to it. On a side note, the video does causes one to think about how a teacher should treat his or her students and the usage of the correct tone and words to discipline them. In this case, the teacher should not have used words that might have caused a huge impact on the student's self esteem and ego.

- Ee Ning - Howled at 9:58 AM