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Students Tracked By RFID
TheMeuge writes "The New York Times is
reporting
a new development in the unrelenting progress of the
RFID juggernaut. The school district
of
Spring, Texas has adopted RFID as a way to track students' arrival and
departure. Upon being scanned, the data are transmitted to both the school
administrators, as well as city police. I guess cutting class is no longer an
option."
The difference being, we are required by law to know where our pupils are at all times, i can't see a reason for knowing when you're in your house at all times, although I'm sure a few of the anonymous cowards will think of a reason.
I'm amaized that a teacher would use a possive version of get (get's) instead of the proper version (gets).
I'm a teacher...
My first step, as a school sysadmin, would be to block Slashdot, so that teachers would be teaching.
Sig it.
RFID for Slashdot seems to be what half-naked women for advertising. Slap it on any story or product, and shazam - instant hot story. Would the story make it anywhere if the kids carried magnetic cards or coded punch cards like some hotels use for doorkeys, and used them to sign in and out of school by swiping them through the reader? Nah, too boring. But do the same thing with RFID, and suddenly it's ACLU time. Never mind that the cards are being used in exactly the same way, only instead of swiping them through the reader they are held next to the reader until it beeps.