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To: upchuck

This story, as written, needed background, for sure. Like a bad connection, cutting in and out on any info. I hung up.
Better to go WND for actual content, I hope.


3 posted on 01/19/2013 5:35:59 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: RitaOK
This story, as written, needed background, for sure.

Agreed. When I first read the article on CNS I was left wondering about much of it. The WND article has a lot more info. The CNS article is mostly about the latest court shenanigans.

6 posted on 01/19/2013 5:54:40 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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Lawsuit against Northside ISD tracking system rejected
By Francisco Vara-Orta
Updated 11:05 pm, Tuesday, January 8, 2013

"A federal judge Tuesday ruled that Northside Independent School District can transfer a student from her magnet school for refusing to wear her student ID badge to protest a new electronic tracking system."

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"The district is testing a “radio frequency identification,” or RFID, tracking system and picked Jones Middle School and Jay for the pilot program."

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"With a combined 4,200 students, both have struggled with attendance issues. State funding is partly based on attendance, and if the technology generates significant extra income in a budget-cutting era, the district might decide to install it at all 112 of its campuses."

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/Lawsuit-against-Northside-ISD-tracking-system-4176148.php#ixzz2IQd8HUXC

9 posted on 01/19/2013 5:58:35 AM PST by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: RitaOK
Several FR threads on this saga going back to Aug. 2012 when the RFID chips became mandatory
18 posted on 01/19/2013 6:35:50 AM PST by deport
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