Parents Vote For Snooping 'Kiddie Cams' So They Can Watch Their Child's Every Move At School

Some parents may be taking the classroom into their own hands now it has been reported that mums and dads would like to have access to web-cams linked to their child's classrooms, just so they can keep an eye on them

What would feel about having access to their child's neck whilst he or she was in class? Would you like the idea of having a link from your place of work to your child's very chair? Well, surprisingly in the UK, as many as one in four of us would love to see what our children get up to in class according to a services website called Directgov. Also on the wish list for many parents was an alert button linked up to their Internet connection if their child failed to turn up for school. Two thousand parents took part in the online poll on the website and gave their ideas on what would make them feel better about their child's education and welfare whilst they were at school. Perhaps even closer to the mark was the repeated suggestion of children being fitted with transmitters so that their parents to see exactly where they were and who they were talking to. Although the government say that these suggestions are merely telling the system that they want to feel more involved with their children's lives, to many others, it sounds as though parents just want to have a snoop. The project wanted to find out what parents would like to see as regards to services offered in the future. The most popular seemed to be linked to children's behaviour whilst their parents are not around. On a more helpful and not so detrimental note, parents felt that to help their children with difficult homework, lessons should be recorded so that the tapes can then be played back later on, giving children a second go at understand the lesson of that day. One parent told the website,

"I want to be able to see what exactly the kids have been taught. Trying to help them with their homework is a nightmare. If we could sit and watch a video of the lesson again that would be really helpful."

Others also wanted to check exactly what their children were eating at lunch times and what they got up in the playground at break times. Yet these futuristic ideas are not quite as far forward as we think. In fact, many schools right now are cashing in on the text message system on mobile phones and are alerting parents if their child does not turn up for school. Jayne Nickalls, director of Directgov, said that the answers and suggestion gathered from the website will be taken into consideration. She said,

"For parents, it seems that services which allow them to play more of an active role in their children's education - such as monitoring attendance and being more involved in what their children are learning - would be the most popular."

So, if you do fancy snitching on your child during their school day, have no fear, 'kiddie cams' are on their way....