Well, a nearly identical incident occurred last week at East High School in Wichita, Kansas. Fifteen-year-old Charles Rogers discovered a spy camera in the boys room [2], removed it, and took it home. Again, the principal had placed it there supposedly to watch for students writing graffiti. Again, the boy was suspended, in this case for a week.
But here the story takes a different turn. The principal at East High School is being disciplined for violation of district policy on videotaping, and the student's suspension has been lifted.
It's eerie -- not only the similarity between these two stories, but also their parallel to the recently-revealed policy approved by President Bush to spy on American citizens without obtaining warrants [3], all in the name of making the bathrooms of the world (and, presumably, everything outside the bathroom, in the latter case) a better place. Or is such action justified in the War On (Turd) Terror?
