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:And the problem is????

[Tyreth]

While I agree that young people are usually less responsible, I blatantly reject that "Children are inheriently irresponsible, precisely because they are children".

In different cultures, and different times of history, people of a young age were able to demonstrate amazing levels of maturity and responsibility. I have often heard people lament how much older a person is before they reach maturity now. I believe that young people are immature because that's what they've been taught. If we taught young people that they were responsible and to be trusted, then that's precisely what they would be. You have gotten your cause and effect all wrong.