Posted on 02/11/2005 6:15:02 AM PST by Navydog
Kids privacy is through their parents.
My kids are mine, and their privacy is my privacy.
If someone tried to make me wear an electronic leash, I would hurt them. Same for my kid.
Strangers MIGHT be maniacs, school officials ARE maniacs.
Uh...how is this liberal?
RF equipment isn't all that expensive, it keeps the kids in the school and the wierdos out. Besides, making a 1st grader wearing a big, ugly tag on their shirt is a whole lot different than surgically implanting them with something, or all of that "mark of the beast" stuff.
The schools, in theory, act in loco parientis when you relinquish custody of your children to them during the day.
This latest adaptation of radio frequency ID technology was developed by InCom Corp., a local company co-founded by the parent of a former Brittan student, and some parents are suspicious about the financial relationship between the school and the company. InCom plans to promote it at a national convention of school administrators next month.InCom has paid the school several thousand dollars for agreeing to the experiment, and has promised a royalty from each sale if the system takes off, said the company's co-founder, Michael Dobson, who works as a technology specialist in the town's high school. Brittan's technology aide also works part-time for InCom.
What good is requiring a child to wear an RFID badge. Badges are easily removed defeating the "intended" purpose? Appears to be simply another waste of time and potentially taxpayer funds.
Well, the point is moot, since I never relinguished them to the agents of the state.
However, I don't think they have the right to over ride parent's wishes, and I think (could be wrong) that in loco parentis is subject to the desire of the parents, at least it should be.
Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see the parents force Mr. Graham into retirement, he has no business teaching kids in a free country like the United States.
Today it's your kids, tomorrow it will be you.
I doubt it, but you never know. I will say this, I can see some merit in a micro-chip implant for military folks like myself. You go down behind enemy lines or get nabbed by some terrorist, I'd like to me transmitting a signal before the bastards cut my head off. Hell they might already be doing that with special forces units. I'm just a UH-60 pilot, but I wouldn't say no...
I've no problem with that, some of those hostages might have been saved if they had a GPS transmitter planted on them and so the whole idea does have merit. What this principle is doing is mandating that students wear one; under those circumstances Mr Graham would have been lucky to keep one of those things on me for an hour.
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