Posted on 08/24/2008 3:22:43 PM PDT by F15Eagle
Kids With History of Skipping School To Wear Ankle Bracelets Equipped With Satellite Technology
(AP) Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets using satellite technology.
But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets, with Global Positioning System monitoring, will infringe on students' privacy.
Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio-area school districts - likely to be mostly high schoolers - will wear the anklets during the six-month pilot program announced Friday.
"We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate," Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. "We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don't want to see the latter."
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It's not ... yet ...
Face it, your kids belong to the state.
Incrementally, bit-by-bit. It starts off seeming like a “good” idea. And then one day ...
No shock collars ? We will need Predator Drones for truant officers soon .
I think every city should be as crime-free as the Holy City, and have to invent something for their cops to do. /sarc
How do government schools resemble prisons? Let me add prisoner ankle bracelets to the longs of ways.
Think about this. Government schools essentially take children ( who have committed no crime) and treat them like prisoners. In many, many ways the life of a prisoner and a government school child are very similar.
Then when the child ( who has committed no crime) **rationally** rebels against this treatment the government subjects him to even harsher treatment.
The adults in his life ( who should be protecting him) abandon him to this treatment by the government. Is there any wonder there is a “generation gap” and children respond to adults in sullen or despondent grunts and monosyllables?
IMHO, they’re being acclimated, perhaps even unintentionally, to a world where school lunches are by thumb-print identification, tracking devices of various kinds (wristwatches, etc.) and implantable microchips for senior citizens are all becoming part of the norm.
There is a lot of potential good. There is also a potential downside to all of this stuff.
These bracelets will become the new status symbol.
This is just a waste of tax payer money. If one of these things had been forced on me..I would have devoted 24/7 to removing it and leading the cops on a goose chase. I figure today.. kids are even more tech smarter.
What good is it going to do to force sullen 15-16 y/os to sit in class? They aren’t going to learn. Just drop them...give them a card and tell them to call when they decide they want an education and go “GET A JOB”.
The only tracking system I care to have is my UPS deliveries.
GPS the new government sheep herder. No one prophesied what form the mark would come in.
Do laptops have GPS track systems installed too?
Oh and there is that ON STAR service too.
Well then so do the adult too?
I guess the old system of auto call the parents/guardians just didnt pan out. /sarc sort of
To make your post to the point may I just say we call them Institutions for a reason.
Kennells there not just for dogs and wild animals anymore. : )
Probably the same ones they use on home-release prisoners. They’re designed to trip if they are removed.
The mission of government schools is ***NOT*** education! Please remember that.
Government schools exist to provide **jobs** for teachers and all the others sucking a living off the educational-industrial-complex. When this is understood then all the nuttiness of the government schools is clearly understandable.
Kennells there not just for dogs and wild animals anymore. : )
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I infuriate the government school defenders when I say that children in government prison-like facilities are “institutionalized” for their education. :-)
I agree. I oppose compulsory education.
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