Students are responding positively to the video cameras in the schools, says the Eastern School Board superintendant.
Sandy MacDonald said the cameras installed in junior and senior high schools over the summer make the students feel safer.
Already, the cameras have helped catch someone who broke into Charlottetown Rural twice and found someone who stole money from a locker.
No one is sitting and watching the students all day, said MacDonald.
“They just look back on the tapes if there is a problem. ”
The district plans to put cameras in the elementary schools as soon as the resources are available.
They are still unsure of the costs, but the government will foot the bill, said MacDonald.
The Western School District put cameras in its high schools three years ago.
There are semi-perminant cameras that go from school to school if there is any vandalism, but there aren’t too many issues, said Dale Sabean, the Western School Board superintendant.
They have no immediate plans to install permanent cameras in the schools, however they may decide to in the future.
“It’s all subject to funding. If we had the money, we’d get them,” he said.
