Well, the motivation seems noble enough, but the execution will take a delicate touch. The “government officials” in this case are classroom teachers, and watching every move they make in the day-to-day of their jobs necessarily means watching every move the kids make as well… and that’s not just gonna make professional privacy advocates nervous, y’know.
My wife’s a schoolteacher in LAUSD, the second-largest public school district in the USA, and a dense, opaque, unwieldy, Kafkaesque bureaucracy if ever there was one. There’s a very, very strong need for disinfecting sunlight to penetrate the district HQ on Beaudry Avenue (we call the building The Humidifier since it looks just like one). But the privacy and safety concerns of the parents of the student body seriously need to be protected. It’s all very well and good for a Concerned Citizen to find out how effectively their tax dollars are being utilized to effectively educate the young, but there are policies and procedures currently in place to allow an (admittedly determined) person to do just that, without opening up the campus to just any old rando who feels like ambling through on their way to the 7-Eleven.
