The Tabnak website quoted Fatemeh Qorban, who is the deputy director for elementary education, as saying, “At present, closed-circuit TV cameras are being used in halls and public places inside schools in order to monitor the students. However, in the future, these cameras will also be used in classrooms in order to have better oversight over the educational process in the classroom.”
Some took that to mean that the government wants to monitor what teachers are doing. But whether the concern was to look for poor teachers or to search out teachers who didn’t conform to the regime’s ideological requirements was unknown. It could easily be both.
Qorban didn’t make clear if the use of TV cameras would be confined to elementary schools or was intended for all educational levels.