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Top 5 False Claims Made About School Bus Camera Systems
It will solve arguments between children:
When we are young, we often believe what we are told, which is why fairy tales and make-believe are so enchanting to young minds. However, part of maturity is learning the difference between fairy tales and reality, and the measure of a reason-based mind is the questioning of everything so we can determine what is real and what is not.
I am not aware of a single school bus camera system that can resolve any arguments between children.
Cameras on school buses have two specific goals;
First - to make children and drivers aware that they are being recorded, so that their actions can in the future be reviewed by school staff and administration, as well as law enforcement agencies.
Second - to provide unbiased, impartial digital video evidence in case some event requires scrutiny by school staff or law enforcement that can hold up in a court of law.
Documenting Tommy choking the life out of Johnnie till he passed out unconscious, may be useful in the school staff and administration, as they decide whether a school bus infraction, civil crime, or actionable felony was committed on school property. However, if no action is taken, due to cowardice on the part of the staff or administration, tolerating the federaal crime of bullying or abuse of a child at the hands of another child while in the school custody, on municipal goivernment school property, ie, the bus, the system was a waste of taxpayer funding, and there is no rational reason to belive things will get better for the victiam, or that the perpetrator in the future will feel any hesitation to act violently to another child.
This is similar in the application of Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Cameras, as in that application, the passengers may have issues with other passengers, as well as the drivers and those assisting them in and out of the vehicles.
It is the action taken in response to the bad behavior that will resolve the arguments, and the knowledge that, in the future, the same digital recording technologies can be used again and again to handle disputes between those elderly passengers.
It will force children to behave:
The school staff and administration aim to get children to and from school daily with as few problems as possible, while protecting them from harm during their time in the school system.
A school bus camera will not compel children to behave if no parent in their home sets boundaries and teaches self-control.
In a perfect world, this may work, but in the real world, children often do what they want. After reading dozens of studies on child behavior in broken family settings of single mom or single dads with children, it is clear to me that most children believe they can get away with almost any bad behavior, because most are lacking the stable family unit at home, and they have practically no boundaries set by their parents or self-control that usually come from the 2 parent nuclear families.
Parents are usually the ones who enforce behavior. No parents in the home, or especially no fathers in the house, as discipline usually comes from their dads, usually leads to undisciplined children who often end up in the criminal justice system. Study after study is revealing that fatherless households may be the number one cause for the unprecedented increase in violence in the inner city populations.
An extreme example of this is when prisoners or suspects taken into custody and being transported by law enforcement are recorded on the Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & In-Custody Transport Camera on the prison bus or department of corrections transports, or even in police squad cards. The suspects or prisoners frequently commit crimes while in the possession of law enforcement officers.
Affordable School Bus Surveillance Cameras will not force children to behave on a school bus without a clear connection between their bad behavior and the consequences of that bad behavior.
In simpler terms, if the school system is not willing to take action, suspend the child, or file criminal charges when children assault other children, or when children slash the bus seat covers, or when children smoke cigarettes, smoke crack, drink alcohol, have sex, or bring weapons on the bus, then why would the the children feel in any way forced to behave, when ther is no connection between bad behaviour and the consequence of that bad behaviour?
It will make children accountable:
Nothing makes people accountable like punishment or the fear of punishment for their actions.
Punishment can be in the form of suspension for a child, fear of expulsion from the school system in extreme cases, or a fine for some criminal violations, and possible incarceration.
While I have never operated one, I have watched in wonder as others use forklifts and industrial material-handling lift trucks to perform some of the dumbest, most dangerous activities, risking the lives of the operator and everyone around them. Entire websites of wild antics by forklift and industrial lift truck operators were the reason we started offering these Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Systems as a solution to help company owners limit their liability to the insane risk those forklift operators were exposing their companies to.
It will protect drivers from false child allegations:
This claim of protection against false claims may be true, but only if the system is installed correctly, checked and tested periodically, and maintained like any other safety equipment. Like a fire extinguisher, this mechanical product has limitations and, if not tested and regularly checked, may not be functional when needed.
Our Rural Transport Ride-share Vehicle Camera systems provide the same level of protection against false allegations by elderly or Medicaid Transport Camera system passengers documented in their transport applications.
The same is offered in the Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Camera
Equipped vehicles that are used to move passengers from site to site as needed.
This protection is only assured when the system is tested and maintained to ensure it functions as needed when it matters.
The false claim that they can do these things depends entirely on the system being functional and maintained by the customers.
Any indication that they will process those claims without periodic review and verification is irresponsible on the part of those offering these technology-based solutions.
My point in writing the above is that any technology-based solution depends on the user to maintain the technology's status and keep the functional parts of the system performing, so that when it is needed in the future, it is working and ready to be used. The most important part of any safety technology is the user, the person who purchased, installed, and maintains the function of the equipment.
Without a competent person responsible for maintaining the technology, it can fail when you need it most.
It will bring world peace and goodwill to mankind:
Ok, this one may be a unicorn fantasy, as one of the less virtuous aspects of the nature of man is to take advantage of another to any level of self-benefit. I'd like to see how many actual humans, not bots, made it this far in reading these posted articles. Please let me know if you get this far, if you call us in the future.
Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about;
Affordable School Bus Camera Systems or the Testudo Lifetime System Warranty School Bus Camera Systems, various applications or School Bus Student Transportation Video Camera Recorder configurations, please let us know. We will be happy to offer our 35+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices to respond to your concerns or questions.
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