[ThomasThomas]

Minus a few high profile shootings, schools are generally known as a safe environment for our children. I am surprised that no one commented on this jewel yet.

[Right Wing Assault]

Patrick Mann is a senior and said he feels like he’s in prison.

No, son, don't exaggerate. If you were in prison, you'd be raped three times a day. Plus, they don't let you go home at the end of each the day and hope you come back the next day. And you don't get to have your own car and wear your favorite clothes. And mom doesn't cook your meals.

[Huntress]

Seems to me that an enterprising kid with a computer, a laser printer and a laminating machine could make a convincing fake badge to wear and leave the real one in a classroom when he didn't want to be found.

[GBA]

Abolish the damn Dept. of Education. Get the power and control out of DC and back to the states and to the individual!

They do NOT know how to run your life better than you do.

They do NOT know how to raise your child better, educate your child better or know your child better than you do.

Charlatans, every damn one and we let them sell us on their superiority?

[Inappropriate Laughter]

Hey, they don't hurt a bit!

[KarlInOhio]

Oops, I left mine in the microwave for too long. (Also a good way to destroy CDs and DVDs).

[Gene Eric]

>> All students at Santa Fe Junior High and Santa Fe High School have to wear the radio frequency IDs.

Get a clue kids.

[_Jim]

This technology doesn’t stop when you leave campus. Students have reported being tracked by campus police when they LEAVE the school grounds.

Baaaaah ... sheep.

Use a SCHLAGE SHIELD (foil shield for the 'badge' or RFID bracelet) ...

[Kevmo]

Revelation 13 (New International Version) Revelation 13
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16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

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[justlurking]

“At that Shell Station, they can see exactly where I am,” Mann said. “I know that because the school cops came up there and said, ‘Hey, you need to get back to school. We tracked you over here.’”

Sorry, I'm not buying that.

RFID transponder range is very small -- on the order of 10-30 feet. Unless they put sensor units in every building doorway in town (including that Shell station), they won't be able to track anyone outside the school.

The cops saw him there. They didn't use the RFID to track him.

[metmom]

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[Salvation]

No, this is a sign of the end times. Tell me it isn’t happening.

[tutstar]

You thought it was bad?
Bet the 0troopers would love to put them in our driver’s licenses and we won’t even know it?

[tutstar]

I hate to say this because I’m blonde but the lady who spoke for the school district needs to be told, their responsibility is to teach the students. They could make it safer with metal detectors. This is very extreme.

[tutstar]

gnip

[bamahead]

Are our students going to school or prison? What is the threat that requires such drastic measures? How many more schools plan on implementing these Orwellian “security” measures?



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[Thunder90]

Put the badge in a microwave for 3-5 seconds. It will fry the RFID tag but the ID will otherwise be undamaged.

[USMCPOP]

Put it in a metal-lined pocket protector or between a couple of foil-wrapped candy bars. That should screw up the read range.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Sorry, but this is much ado about nothing.

Fact: RFIDs have a range in the 10s of feet. So the school can't monitor you off school grounds. The SROs obviously detected several students leaving the building and followed them. No homing beacons needed.

Fact: most major corporations use some method of access control. How many people need to show IDs, badges, or scan their way into work? So what is the big deal if the school can see that a student is in the back hallway (or better yet, two students... since a nearby school has had multiple incidences of students caught in stairwells, maintenance halls, etc. having sex already this year. And for every couple you catch...) when they aren't supposed to be? Schools already have hall passes for access control; why shouldn't they make the system better?

Fact: students do not have the "right" to wander where they please. When a teacher says "Go to the bathroom," it's not a license to wander the halls. And if an RFID tag shows that a kid is wandering, then it is doing him a favor (by teaching him accountability). All of the parents who are hyperventilating over this are the same parents who are making our schools uncontrollable in classes ("You don't have to do what the teacher says"... but wait until they try to kick the defiant brat out: "My son has a right to an education!").

Sorry, but unless you can show me where the school is tracking kids at home or at the local mall, this is a non-event. A school is well within its prerogatives in tracking its students on campus.

[Still Thinking]

Are our students going to school or prison?

Yes! (I know the answer to that and I haven't even been in one in decades)