Panopticons All Around

My mom is a teacher at an elementary school a town over from where I live. She works in the pre-school wing of the school. She was talking to a friend of hers and I overheard her mention the cameras that are outside of her classroom. This isn't too different than the high school I went to or any other school for that matter. There is a big difference however. The cameras in the hallways of her school are monitored not only by the principle but by the principle of the high school as well. The security at the high school can receive the feed coming from all of the elementary and middle schools in the town. I'm assuming this is for safety purposes because the town in which she works is "rough". This is like a double panopticon. It's as if there's a tower in the center of a prison, and another tower in the center of the tower. The guy in the lower tower watches over the prisoners while the guy in the upper tower watches over him. It's pretty crazy how that works. My mom definitely has no chance of knowing when someone could possibly be watching her. It's amazing how far people will go to promote change!