Abuse at French after-school programmes: Parents sound the alarm • FRANCE 24 English (youtube.com)
This report is alarming if truly there is no supervision of the teachers/staff, even on an occasional basis. But we also remember the moral panic about schools in the 80s, where kids were coached to give testimony. In this case, one of the kids gave testimony only after sessions with a child psychologist. The psychologist interviewed said signs of 'typcal symptoms observed in victims of abuse' were a kid not wanting to go to school suddenly, sleeping, anger issues, avoiding all sorts of things.' They then get calls from parents that their kids are showing signs of trauma, but if these are the symptoms isn't that 50% of all children?
This isn't a civil rights issue where people have rights to not be surveiled. It's a controlled environment where there are (actual) children, so there is no reason to not have cameras (so long as the footage is not kept in a database or allowed into the hands of some corporation or something).
The organization in the video is disappointed that complaints are often minimized by authorities, but if the complaints are vague behavioral issues without any actual material testimony or something, what is there?
The kids had to tell their stories 5 times to different authorities over the course of a month or more. Which is perhaps as traumatic as the alleged abuse. It might be forgotten, but they are made to crystallize it as memory.