Cameras in Classrooms: What Teachers Really Think

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Should every classroom have cameras? We debate the pros, cons, and hilarious realities teachers would face if Big Brother moved into school.

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Best friends, buckle up — this week on Teachers Off Duty we're diving into one of the most controversial topics in education right now: cameras in the classroom. Bri, Jess, and Anna are spilling all the tea on the pros, cons, awkward moments, and downright hilarious possibilities of being filmed at work.

From hallway fights caught on tape to the ultimate teacher "highlight reel," we're asking the big questions: Would cameras actually improve student safety and classroom management? Or would they make teaching feel like reality TV?

Plus, we swap stories about the Bored Teachers Comedy Tour, childhood crushes on Steve from Blue's Clues, awkward teacher moments, and why some subs might want a camera watching their back.

Whether you're for it, against it, or just here for the laughs, this episode will have you rethinking what "classroom observation" could really mean.

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Jess Smith @TeacherTalesOfMissSmith

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I want to know how bad some of the stage was my city. Nobody's gonna know. They're gonna know. So you're the reason people have protection screens. Oh, a thousand percent. Casey Mack? Do I need to read it? Yeah. You haven't read her? I've never read or any of her books. Girl, baby Verity, I don't know. Okay. So the reason that they would want cameras in the classroom is basically to... It's the intent behind the cameras that I'm, that like makes me a little worried. Is it to protect other students to protect the teacher? He called me a fat goose first. I just... He started it. He started it. Roll the cameras. It was all out of love. We don't work 10 to 2. You know, the amount of people that are just like, you're so lazy because you're a teacher, but maybe the cameras would shut that down. Humans love the tea. And also, if I'm on camera every day, I've got to try to look good. I know. That's a lot of pressure. That's 10. I've been trying to lose for you.
1:12.6	Hey, best friends. Welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty.
1:15.4	If you do not know me, I am honest teacher vibes.
1:19.8	And I am joined by my two lovely co-hosts that I'm so excited to film with.
1:20.9	Hey. Hey, everybody.
1:21.5	I'm Anna Kowal, aka Rita Way with Miss Kay.
1:26.0	I like the K. I love to sing my
1:29.3	Okay, all right, all right.
1:30.3	And I am Jess Smith.
1:32.3	Teacher tells of Miss Smith.
1:35.3	Hey, yes, given, yes, yes.
1:38.3	I don't know.
1:40.3	How can you tell?
1:41.3	I'm a millennial teacher.
1:43.3	I just figured out blues clothes. Do you know that that guy's starting a podcast? Steve? The OG. I'm like, when he shows up on my TikTok and he's like, how are you doing? I'm like, not good, Steve. I wish I missed I miss blues clues. A lot worse. They say email now.
2:20.8	It's a lot worse than the last time I saw you, man. You just got an email? No. They do and I got mad on my side. I said, what do you mean? We just got an email. Wait, Blue's Clues is still on the air and they say it. Yeah. It's cute. It is cute. It's cute. It's cute. I feel a little, I feel a little juked because I just want to Steve to still be on there. And it's kind of like when you take your kid to see
2:24.7	Bluey and like the, I mean, not Bluey, Frick, blippy and the actual blippy is not there. And you're
2:30.1	like, who is this imposter? That's not real. Mommy, that's not blippy. And I'm like, that's who they got here. I don't know why we paid tickets to see this guy. Mommy, this guy stole blippy. I'm like, he didn't. Yes, this is a case of stolen identity. Hashtag mom life. You know where you won't get your identity stolen at the more teachers comedy tour.
2:51.7	Yay!
2:52.5	We love that segue.
2:53.5	We hope.
2:54.3	We cannot.
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