Posted on 02/18/2011 8:04:35 PM PST by Immerito
Skipping class, though frowned upon, is practically a rite of passage for young teens, but thanks to an elaborate system involving GPS being used by some school districts, it is practically being eliminated completely.
The Orange County Register reports that the Anaheim Union High School District in California is currently participating in a pilot program which involves using a combination of Global Positioning System technology, automated telephone reminders, and one-on-one coaching to cut down on truancy. It's similar to programs being used in Baltimore and San Antonio.
Basically any students in the seventh- or eighth-grade who have four or more unexcused absences over the course of a school year can be put into the Anaheim program. They will be assigned a GPS tracking device about the size of a cell phone, and they'll need to use it regularly, the newspaper said:
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I guess it’s a good thing I’ve been out of high school since 2004. I’d throw the stupid thing in the street and watch cars run it over.
Out of high school since 1984, but my sentiments exactly.
Having been out of high school for a few years longer than that, I can only observe that given my clumsiness at the time, undoubtedly it would have been so unfortunate as to be dropped in the road and falling into a storm drain, or perhaps swept away in the creek.....
I have long pointed out that parents sending their children to government schools are placing them in an institution that resembles nothing so much as a minimum security prison - guards (oops, I mean”resource officers”), searches by metal dectors, dogs, etc., absurd penalties for running afoul of absurd rules (”You are under arrest because: that plastic spoon is a weapon, that breath mint is a drug, etc.), and, now, ankle bracelets.
When are conservatives going to give up their government school welfare addiction?
Having been out of high school for a few years longer than that, I can only observe that given how clumsy I could be in those days, undoubtedly it would have been so unfortunate as to have been dropped in the road before falling into a storm drain, or perhaps swept away in the creek.....
Kind of kid I was in HS (and still am)... I’d have taken it apart, used the components to build something cool.
I'd attach it to a freight train car.
Oh, yeah, this’ll work.
Attach it to the principal’s wife’s car.
That's what I was thinking. It'd also look really cool splattered on the parking lot after being chunked off the school roof. If the kid can't be responsible enough to make it to class, why does the school think he'd be responsible to carry a dumb gps with him?
Maybe this same technology can be used to track down Wisconsin democrats.
Maybe students can be trained to accept computer chips in their foreheads, complete with the chief of the system having his own code consisting of three identical digits.
Yeah I was just remembering that I was pretty good at chemistry.
Ya, can’t they use GPS on Wisconsin teachers who ditch class?
Seems like a simpler solution would be to not participate in this voluntary program.
These people are fascist control freaks.
No way would I put up with this kind of police state monitoring of my family members. That is disgusting.
Ping!!!
I find it disgusting that the schools know how much money they lose per day when a kid is out of school ($35). These districts are not worried about the kids, they are worried about the funding.
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