Can a teacher video-record a disruptive student?

While it has become increasingly common for schoolhouse fights to be recorded and posted on the Internet, a recent case raises the issue of whether a teacher has the right to make a video recording of students without their permission and what privacy rights a student has in a school. "It's really somewhat new and a little complicated," said David Kairys, a constitutional law expert at Temple's Beasley School of Law. "It's fairly common to use video for in-class kinds of things, and it doesn't seem to raise a problem." As for privacy rights, "it would be a question of, 'Is the behavior in the classroom sufficiently public that you basically lose your privacy rights in it?' "
May 23, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer