Reading, Writing, RFID

supabeast! writes "Wired has a story about a public charter school in Buffalo that now tracks student attendence with mandatory RFID tags. The school's director said 'All this relates to safety and keeping track of kids...Eventually it will become a monitoring tool for us..' In the future the system will expand to '...track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office...punctuality...and to verify the time [students] get on and off school buses.' I think that we can all stop calling the privacy advocates paranoid now."

Comments

Re:Paranoid you say? Paranoid like a fox!

[normal_guy]

Imagine an environment where people stop living off the land and get their meat neatly processed and packaged for them. Imagine going home to filtered and dehumidified air. Imagine typing instead of writing your thoughts and sending them into an electronic void instead of talking with your friends over a hearty bowl of homemade chili.

Some technological advancements improve quality of life, some impact it negatively, and still others are somewhere in between. Sometimes we need to take the bad with the good, and educate so the kids don't turn into psychotics.

Re:Security cameras...

[ces]

It probably has something to do with the fact that most people who don't have some kind of training for educating kids usually turn out to be incompetent at educating kids. There are exceptions, but rare ones.

That is utter bullshit. I'm sorry but if the "profeessionals" don't trust parents to teach reading, writing, and math to their own children I'm supprised they trust parents to teach children to talk or use the toilet.

For that matter without professional educators I'm supprised we were able to last as long as we did, the lions and wolves should have gotten us long ago.