Undercover Substitute Teacher Reprimanded for Covertly Filming School's Deficiencies

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on March 26, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Substitute science teacher Alex Dolan took covert footage of students in London and Leeds to document and uncover deficiencies in the local school system.

And what did she get for her trouble? Why, she was found guilty of professional misconduct, of course! Didn’t she ever heard of the adage "no good deeds go unpunished?"

Alex Dolan recorded the footage covertly at four schools in London and Leeds in 2005, exposing apparent attempts by the school to dupe Ofsted inspectors.

A General Teaching Council panel found her guilty of taking advantage of pupils, breaching their trust – and that of colleagues – and abusing her position.

Dolan was praised at a hearing of the panel last week for showing integrity, and acting as a whistleblower to expose conditions in the schools in which she had taught.

But in its judgment, the panel said it did not accept that the public interest issues raised by the film Undercover Teacher justified the use of covert filming.

Link – via Arbroath

 
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Carts of Darkness

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Media, Movies & SciFi on February 2, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Carts of Darkness is an interesting documentary film about a subculture of street life involving the homeless and the extreme sport of cart racing.

The National Film Board of Canada has recently posted the entire film online along with the usual trailers. The film by Murray Siple

“follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk”.

Link – via chunnel

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Objectified, a Documentary of Industrial Design by Gary Hustwit

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 6, 2009 at 8:41 am

How do the things that we buy become things in the first place?

Documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit (who also did Helvetica – yes, a film about the typeface) takes a look at product designers and their industrial designs his new film, Objectified:

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Here’s the trailer: Link [embedded YouTube clip] – via Fimoculous

 
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