Wear radio chip or leave, school tells students Superintendent issues warning: 'There will

WND ^ | 10/6/12 | Jack Minor

[Nachum]

Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radio chip that will enable officials to track their every move – or face expulsion.

At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.

[AmericanMermaid]

So many of those hippies also spit on and mistreated the soldiers coming back from Vietnam, that it really is no surprise those stringy-haired, dope-smoking hippies would today be fascist.

[Chickensoup]

Why bother with truants?

If they dont want to be there, don’t make them go. Kids do not have to be a make-work program for teachers.

Drop the draconian regulations against early workers and let the market rule. Right now we grow our own criminals by not letting kids 12 or 14 and up make choices on work. They are shelved instead of able to work hard.

[samtheman]

there aren’t men or women with enough conviction and selflessness anymore in positions of power to fight evil

So true. The fact that school officials can come up with a plan like this and not fear for their own jobs shows how utterly weak we have become.

[SCalGal]

It’s the same state where the Governor, Rick Perry, tried to force little girls to take an STD vaccine (that had a fail rate of about 30%)...and the same Rick Perry that pushed property seizures to build toll roads for Mexican trucks to haul Communist Chinese goods thru Texas

Also home of John Roberts. CA ain't looking so bad.

[bert]

That’s correct. It doesn’t really specify the location except within the designated perimeter.

I have a card that allows me to freely enter very large security area. They recently implemented a policy for visitors to sign at the exact location they are visiting. That means they have some problem with unauthorized wandering by visitors with the passes. They had the policy before but abandoned it. I suppose the problem is happening again.

For a school, the card entry data is important. It can be used as a roll. The calling of the roll becomes unnecessary. The computer knows who came and when and when they left. The numbers provide a record to be submitted for funds provided on a per capita basis. The data also are basis for truancy situations, for tardy problems and on and on.

For a manager, the principal, the auto collected data is a great tool. All the fear is ridiculous. The process is the way the world works now.

[vortec94]

OMG(oodness) I haven’t thought about that song in a long time. It should be brought back, it was true then and gospil today. Who would’ve thunk.

[EternalVigilance]

Separate school and state. Before it is too late.

[bert]

----So long and thanks for (all) the fish.----

I'll trump that......

: )

[Tuanedge]

“Conservatives” who can’t disconnect the cable to their liberal indoctrination and throw the TV out the door, and who continue to send their kids to the socialist breeding camps they call public schools, might as well have a chip implanted in there head right now, because they’re drones in denial.

What will you do when they decide to put these chips into your credit cards and drivers licenses? They’re already making transistors as thin as saran wrap. Do you think ethics are going to stop them?

I think it’s fair to say that part of the big push is that this school is a testing ground... but a testing ground for what?

[listenhillary]

FTA

On October 1, the schools went live with a program to use the chips to track the exact locations of students using the badges. The badges would even be able to tell if a student in a classroom is in his seat or somewhere else in the room.

[listenhillary]

FTA

Unlike chips used by retailers to track inventory which activate when scanned by a reader, these chips contain batteries and actively broadcast a continuous signal.

[yldstrk]

hippies were rebels because they were control freaks, only willing to do what they wanted to do and unwilling to conform to regular social strictures. Now they want to control everybody and demand that everybody renounce all social strictures, it will now be okay to have families with more than two parents, marriages with either sex and with more than two members, sex with children, steal if you are able. It is total anarchy these sickos want to impose.

[EternalVigilance]

I think we all know.

[Roccus]

It's NOT about the technology...it's about HOW it is used and WHO uses it. Just because it's stated reason for use is X, doesn't mean that reason will not change to Y. Remember, even though we are only dealing with a school principal here, it is still GOVERNMENT....and government ALWAYS strives for more and more control over the individual. Once a system is established, the government has scant aversion to changing the 'rules' of that system in order to attain whatever goals it desires.
One thing I learned in my three decades as a field tech, EVERYTHING looks good on paper

[SaraJohnson]

Well then, parents get rid of this petty dictator wannabe. Organize a group, follow his every move and raise ‘ell about him to every elected official, at every meeting for the rest of his days. He’s full of his commie/fascist self and needs to depart.

If enough parents refuse the tracking device, he’s going to be very busy “punishing” everybody. Let him hang himself with his own big ego.

[Right Wing Assault]

They didn’t want to release my son from their records

Exactly. Years ago when I was a teacher, I taught in an "inner-city" school. My classes had nearly 50 kids but only about 25 ever showed up. The kids that came would tell me a lot of these missing kids moved to other school districts or states.

I would tell the school, but they said they needed to keep the kids on the roster until THEY could determine why they were absent. It was rumored they marked them present a few days and gave them some non-failing grades to make it appear they were coming to class at times.

A lot of kids were being double- and triple-counted by schools so they can get their state aid. And, of course, it takes a LOOOONG time to figure that out.

[Roccus]

Mid 80's, I'm installing a fiber system in a major brokerage house HQ. I have to tell the customer that they did not provide enough room in a closet for some equipment. The reply was, "But I saw a picture of it in a closet that size." My reply, "How about I show you a picture of a Buick in the closet?" What no one (sales, engineering, customer) had taken into account was how the equipment bay opened. Seat belts will NEVER be a primary offense. Income tax will be paid ONLY by the rich. SS #'s are NOT to be used as identification. The list goes ever on.

[Right Wing Assault]

There are tens of millions of people using things like EZ-Pass that don’t require them to stop to pay the toll on a road. Of course, that means they could eventually be used to know where a lot of people are and where they have gone. And how far they drove. And how long it took them to get there. And what their average speed was. And so on.

Could be very useful info for some governments wishing to control people.

[dljordan]

I listened to an interview with the young lady last night and my blood was boiling. It’s all about the money the school district is set to receive. They strong-armed her pretty badly.

[Bshaw]

“Easy fix.

1. Place badge in microwave. 30 seconds on “high”

or

2. Place badge inside silvered electronics bag. Badge is visible, but faraday cage effect prevents RFID signal from getting out. . .”

Thank you for that simple solution. I wonder if the school has a Facebook site where your practical and cost effective approach can be communicated?