Posted on 01/19/2013 5:28:00 AM PST by upchuck
Having lost her appeal, 15 year-old student Andrea Hernandez is leaving John Jay High School after school officials denied her request to allow her to continue her "education uninterrupted" by permitting her to use her old (chipless) ID badge which "does not signify participation in a program which I believe conflicts with my religious beliefs."
In her handwritten letter, Hernandez writes: "I do not wish to wear the new badge, even without the RFID chip, because it signifies participation in the program."
Hernandez, who has been threatened with expulsion for refusing to wear a chipless RFID tracking badge, had her request for a preliminary injunction denied by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District of Texas. Rutherford Institute attorneys argue the school is violating her rights under Texas' Religious Freedom Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
"The case will definitely move forward now, and hopefully, we will eventually find justice in the courts," John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute says.
Hernandez had been hoping the school would compromise. "If they dig in their heels, however, she will have to change schools," Rutherford told "The Right Views."
Why does Pink Floyd come to mind. “Just another brick in the wall”
Regardless of whether it is a magnet school or regular public (or even private), if she wears the RFID badge then she is “tracked” and she feels her individual rights are infringed upon by the school. No, it’s not implanted, but getting closer to that requirement every day. When I was in the military I had to wear my badge; my spouse at work has to wear his badge, other folks wear badges where they work. But that is NOT school, and she is not a prisoner. Yes, students do have IDs, and they are for a variety of purposes, but to physically track each student is definitely on the road to Big Brother. More and more electronic data is captured every day on each citizen, whether overtly or covertly. What is the government doing with all this data? For what purpose? It should make every one of us stop and think.
To your point about “golden flow” tests: that is NOT the same, and I do agree that random urinalysis tests are appropriate at school and work and on competitive teams/events. That’s a different subject altogether.
Thank you for your earlier comments—it is fortunate for us that we can put forth our opinions in an adult manner.
Have a nice day!
What you fail to understand is that this is just a step on the way to total real-time monitoring of very human, every animal, and pretty much anything that moves.
The techie community is putting together a set of monitoring and surveillance tools that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would have drooled to get.
RFID, mm wave radar, IR imaging and drone technology will very soon have the capability to check where you are, what you are doing, whether you are carrying a weapon, and much else, at any time and anywhere.
It scares the hell out of me, and not for biblical reasons.
What would John Jay do?
Jay believed that both at home and abroad Americans must adhere to moral principles, among them honesty, patriotism, duty, and hard work along with obedience to God’s will.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/John_Jay
The GPS in my cellphone permanently shows it to be in the Atlantic Ocean...whatever giggles that info gives gov operatives.
I live on a boat and that’s where it stays.
Yours didn’t. All the ones manifesting such mindless hostility and paranoia did.
if she wears the RFID badge then she is “tracked” and she feels her individual rights are infringed upon by the school.
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I guess that is part of the problem. She was offered the opportunity to wear a badge on school property that was RFID free. She refused as was her choice.
LOL!
Thanks for the nice comments. No school can formulate policy based on how a 15 year old feels. I searched many a locker to the tune of “you can’t do that, it’s MY locker”. I would just hand them the Supreme Court ruling. As to BB: we’ve been there for ages. They can download your cell phone dump; monitor your Facebook page; even read your posts on FR. Back to the safety point: Texas law makes schools, teachers and administrators immune from civil law suits except for negligence. So, if a school board is aware that chipped ID badges allow for the pro-active tracking of students on school grounds during the school day - when the school has the loco parentis obligation - the board has to adopt the badges. Imagine the deer in the headlights look to this question while under oath: “Were you aware of any available and reasonable means to more closely monitor your students’ movements and locations?”
1. She refused to wear the chipped badge. 2. She had the option of an unchipped badge but refused. So, she’s out. End of story. Schools have been requiring visible IDs for years.
An assault can happen within 30 seconds with serious injuries. Rape within 2 minutes. You are the one that brought up the security angle. Unless these alarms/chips can be self-activated they are nearly worthless as an acute security measure.
Well then, that is entirely different.</sarcasm>
Not 100% true since lunch programs are ran the same way.
There is no reason to have students packed into classrooms anymore. Class's could be offered through teleconfrencing and only the best teachers would be presenting, only need to pay for it once.
The real reason they don't do this is
I admire her for sticking to her guns.
However, I wonder if she realizes that she is being tracked via any number of ways, including through her phone.
I agree. The government schools are running a tax support farm team system for the professional leagues.
There is a SIMPLE solution. Transfer all sports teams and related “rah-rah” organizations to the counties departments of recreation. ( No need to give up the colors or mascots).
Do that and support for government schooling would drop like a fumbled football.
Government schools treat children like prisoners. Children who are treated this way by the government risk learning to be compliant prisoners of the state. If and when true tyranny comes to the U.S. the oligarchy will not use cattle cars. Instead, they will use big yellow school buses. The sheeple will compliantly board them just as they were trained to do by the government functionaries in their prison-like schools.
By the way, a certain group of government defenders has not yet arrived. Now that I have posted they will follow the scent like hunting dogs.
This is Texas...of course football is somehow involved. :)
Why would any right thinking parent put their child into that situation? This isn't the “real” world. Never have I worked in a business where I feared being raped or killed, certainly not by any of the employees of the business.
Why do we ask children to put up with conditions that adults would never tolerate. If adults suffered the conditions that children endure they would be awarded millions in court and criminal charges would be leveled against the perps.
Then....To truly scramble the brains of kids, they are told that they need school for “socialization” , these are the best years of their lives, and that these prison-gang conditions are normal and will toughen them up. Is is any wonder that teens have sullen looks, answer in monosyllables, and have that distant despairing 20 degree off-centered stare when spoken to by adults?
What did I predict?
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