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A bill signed into law Friday, June 19th will require Texas school districts to put cameras in special education classrooms but leaves it up to districts to pay for them. The law is intended to protect children with disabilities from being abused and teachers from false allegations of abuse. Opponents of the law say it\u2019s unfair and law makers didn\u2019t take the right approach to solve the problem. Parents of special needs children pushed law makers to pass Senate Bill 507 this legislative session. \u201cFor 4 and half hours, Mr. Hays verbally provoked, physically assaulted and wrongfully imprisoned my son repeatedly,\u201d Bethany Watson said before an education committee this legislative session. She described her son\u2019s experience in a so-called \u201ccalm room\u201d at a Plano Independent School District elementary school. Breggett Rideau attended the same hearing and spoke about her son\u2019s experience at a school in Keller. \u201cAs the years went on his thumb was broken,\u201d she said. \u201cThose cameras could have prevented that.\u201d School districts questioned who would pay to buy, install and maintain the cameras. \u201cWe estimate AISD would incur cost of roughly 1.5 million dollars in the first year to equip our 535 affected classrooms,\u201d Michael Savercool, life safety supervisor at Austin ISD, said to law makers. The Association of Texas Professional Educators lobbyist Monty Exter said the law maker who wrote the bill had good intentions. \u201cUnfortunately the legislature has again found the most expensive least effective way to deal with the issue,\u201d he said Exter said there are very few cases where teachers attack students and believes law makers could have looked into other options. \u201cThis bill directs limited education dollars primarily towards technology vendors as opposed to directing it towards better development of our special education teaching force,\u201d Exter said. Special education teacher Richard Wiggins agrees. \u201cIt\u2019s not about teaching ability its more about surveillance in the classroom,\u201d he said. Parents believe the cameras could help children who cannot speak up and report abuse. It\u2019s estimated it will cost $3,000 per classroom to install and maintain images for the mandated six months.<\/p>\n
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