In order to educate students in quarantine, our school district is now using the video conferencing tool, Google Meet, which is part of the Google Classroom portfolio of online education products.
Google Meet has been billed as “a game changer.”
Indeed.
The idea of viewing the interior of my students’ homes while teaching them using Google Meet immediately brings to mind one word:
Liability.
In requiring teachers to use video conferencing for quarantined students, my school district has extended the classroom of all of its teachers into students’ homes. We can see into those homes as we conference. It makes me uncomfortable because I do not want to witness something I might be held legally responsible to report even as I feel I am invading student privacy via my official, school presence viewing that private space.
What if I see drugs or drug paraphenalia laying on a table?
What if I witness what appears to be the planning or execution of some other illegal activity?
What if I view or hear evidence of abuse or neglect?
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