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

Oh no...

[ArmenTanzarian]

My High School had a no hat policy, so I guess tinfoil wouldn't even be an option!

Workaround:

[Luyseyal]

Workaround: "Hey Sandy, if you carry my tag to English today, I'll carry yours on Thursday."

Thus: false sense of security. :)

-l

Needs some improvements

[Hayzeus]

The real problem with this technology is that it's only one-way. Once these devices can be implanted directly into the skulls of students, We will se a number of benefits.

For example, we could remotely help them with their homework, automatically remove them from dangerous situations, make them do funny dances and speak with foreign accents, as well as invade neighboring countries, all with the push of a button.

Here's to the future.

Re:School budgets?

[dspfreak]

Man, you hit that right on the head.

"We now know exactly where all of our students are."

"That's really wonderful... uh... now what do we do with them?"