Privacy at school
July 24, 2008 · Print This Article
I drove past the new buildings at Christchurch Grammar School the other day and took this photo - quickly because of course the lights turned green as I was getting my camera out.
I hadn’t really looked too closely before but the lights were on in the upstairs classroom and I could see a student wandering around.
It occurred to me that I’m not sure I’d be too comfortable as a teacher or a student in a classroom that could be seen from the road. By people picking their noses at traffic lights. Not that I was but you know what I mean…
Oh c’mon! I was scratching it!
I also wouldn’t feel that great if the general public could see me at my desk at work. It would feel like an invasion of privacy.
And that’s a bit odd because we have regular tours through our offices - I guess they don’t go near my desk.
Do you work in an office where the great unwashed can walk by and watch you?
I’ve seen a few banks in New York who have desks right up against the window - just a pane of glass separating them from the shoppers, office workers, tourists and homeless.
I don’t think I would like that.
And I certainly wouldn’t have like my parents seeing me misbehave at the back of the classroom when I was at school… not that I did Mum…. that was a joke! Really.
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She didn’t pick nose…
She didn’t misbehave at the back of the class…
As the man said, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”
C’mon, out with it now, you picked it at the back of the class didn’t you?
It’s all there, in between the written words.
I think the worst is working out with a big window.
I don’t think they have it here, but in NYC you walk down the street and you can people at the gym doing there thing.
I don’t think I could do that.
yeah,I wouldn’t be comfortable being watched by the crowd while doing my job.hah feel so awkward ehh.I wonder if I can concentrate what I’m doing.
btw,nice photo u have here..
The gym I go to is like that - big windows in the cardio area looking right onto a busy intersection. Just another reason to avoid doing any cardio…
I’m constantly watched by the public as I do my job. One of the downsides to being a checkout operator. Not only is the public watching, they’re right up close and personal, in your face, so to speak. I’m an intensely private (read terribly shy) person so it’s a little disconcerting, but I get through the shift pretending that I’m a people person, all the while keeping track of the time until I can go home and hide away again.