Big Brother loves your kids...under his watchful eye and control.
No way. Not now - not ever.
Ping!
And no, I don't need to hear from the home school/private school crowd, thank you very much.
Ping!
Are the schoolbags chained to the students?
This “pilot program” will not have an equal number of takeoffs and landings!
Next thing you know, they’ll want these on all motor vehicles for taxation and speed enforcement purposes. This kind of stuff really gets under my skin.
Well, it’s about time someone started keeping track of those school bags. My kids lost an average of two per year throughout their elementary years...
The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parentsto monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.
Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but “it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves.” He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements.
Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.
It doesnt look real to me either.
On the other hand it begs a question
How big a magnet to disable those chips?
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There is a pilot program in Dallas where they put a tracking device on several students that are well known for not showing up to class. According to the news it has worked beyond their expectations and the kids are excelling in class, now that they are there. One said, “hey I can’t hide.”
OMG MARK OF THE BEAST!
DOOM! DOOM!
I Beat yeah to it! Nanner nanner!
I don’t see how this would have the effect of monitoring anything but the movements of their school bags. Which they can easily trade around, leave behind at school when they leave campus to play hookey, etc.
“I have no idea why my kids RFID tag keeps burning out. Microwaves you say? Huh... I guess I’ll have to have my home checked. Sorry about that.”
Ya know... it’s amazing what a “cow magnet” does to the RF chip when it comes in close proximity to it.
Hmmmmmm, most rural feed stores stock plenty of cow magnets most all the time. They’re useful for all kinds of things. Seems like the kind of thing that a kid should carry in their backpack, just in case they need it.
Note: I don’t own stock in either feed stores or cow magnet mfg. companies. [grin]
The schools are turning into prisons.