[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[mylife]

College?

[Norm Lenhart]

I love Big brother.

[Revel]

Continuing the slide to oblivion in society. Lets turn all kid into digital images. There is not time to acknowledge them personally and individually anymore. They are just part of the stream.

[cicero2k]

Feds and apps don’t mix.

This should go over like the Obamacare rollout.

Is Kathleen Sebelius involved?

[fso301]

If it can identify kids sitting in a classroom, it can identify you walking down the street, or out on the lake fishing.

[SandRat]

ang how long do they think it will take students to hack it?

[__rvx86]

Can someone tell me in what year education became the responsibility of the government to provide?

As for me, I learned how to read (Spanish, initially) when I was 2 or 3, long before I started school.

By the time I started, I could even read some English, but I didn’t speak or understand it too well.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[faithhopecharity]

soon to be installed on every newborn heifer (oops, sheeplet?) by order of The One (or his woman) ...
to keep good track of us all

[Amendment10]

This is not a comment about the pros or cons of developing such software. The constitutional problem with federal funding for this project is this. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to justify appropriating revenue for such a project for intrastate purposes of any kind.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

[Politicalkiddo]

If a person pays for his or her school, he or she has the right to skip class.

[DakotaGator]

Feds Creating Smartphone App to Make Sure Kids Don’t Skip Class

I take great exception to this. Unlike primary and secondary education where attendance is required by law, higher education is voluntary and paid for by the student (parents, et al.). Consequently, the concept of mandatory attendance is dubious and spying on the students is abhorrent!

No, I am not opposed to regular classroom attendance. It is simply not government's business at any level. And using monitoring systems to spy on free adults (that's what college students are)is completely wrong and illegal.

Leave attendance between the instructors (usually graduate assistants vice the professors that the students paid for) and the students. It has sorted itself out for centuries.

[Scrambler Bob]

OK. As a male, I’ll just ask a female friend to park my cel phone in the girl’s bathroom in the morning.

If they want to check, I’m just being “gender enlightened”.

I’ll be enlightened all day. And they won’t want to prove otherwise.

[logi_cal869]

Uh-huh...we all know where this is going...

[Nuc 1.1]

As if they could have stopped me.

[lonevoice]

Holy carp.

[trebb]

Along with facial recognition, will it also use expression analysis to see if the students are buying the crap being spewed? It would make it so much easier to tag those who might be extreme right-wing Bible-clinging gun nuts who seek to disobey those that rule....