Purpose: The use of CCTV surveillance cameras in the classrooms of child-care centers was obligatory since 2015. In this study, we investigated the metaphorical expressions and the reason-statements among 119 parents of young children aiming to examine how they perceive CCTV in the early childhood classrooms. Method: Metaphor analysis was used to investigate how the parents of young children perceive CCTV in school. Parents were asked to fill out both metaphorical expressions and the reason statements of metaphors related to CCTV. Results: Six categories of “CCTV” were classified: 1) observation/ surveillance(30.3%), 2) the recordings of each child’s development and life in child-care center(25.2%), 3) evidence and problem-solving(17.6%), 4) safety and protection(13.4%), 5) punishment of teacher and child-care center(9.2%), and 6) etc(4.2%). Among the categories, 95.8% of the responses were related to the function and capability of CCTV. Only 4.2% of the metaphorical expressions represented the social meaning of CCTV usage in the early childhood classrooms. Conclusion: This paper has outlined the parents’ awareness of CCTV in the early childhood classrooms. Parents seemed to trust the technology of CCTV too much and misunderstood the usage of CCTV. These results revealed that parents were lack an awareness of teachers’ rights. We suggested that it is necessary to provide correct information and knowledge of CCTV usage in the child-care center for parents through education.