Feds Propose National Database of College Students

Dore writes "The Department of Education wants to collect personally identifiable information on all college students, including name, address, birth date, gender, race, and SSN. Privacy is assured. The No Child Left Behind Act, which holds primary and secondary schools accountable prompted this line of thinking. Now colleges should be held accountable. If you made it to college, you were not left behind, and further attempts at monitoring citizens should be."

Comments

let's include professors, too

[ChipMonk]

After all, aren't they the ones indoctrinating our future leaders with all this nanny-state nonsense?

It might be worse than you know...

[benhocking]

My mother is a lead teacher for special education and has told me that this act applies to her children as well. Some of these children have IQ's below 60, and the school is held responsible for all of them (not just a percentage), passing the standardized tests.

Re:Privacy is assured.

[demachina]

Well the Reagan administration and the CIA pretty much did create them in the 1980's to fight a proxy war against the U.S.S.R in Afghanistan when. Its something they did exceptionally well since they tied a superpower, with vast military superiority, in knots for 10 years and started the collapse of the Soviet Union. The disaffected and disillusioned vets coming back from Afghanistan did more to bring down the Soviet Union than Reagan running his mouth and squandering money on defense. The few billion he pumped in to the Mujadeen in the Pakistan tribal areas, which included Osama, did more than all the rest put together.

Not sure I would link Al Qaida to the the U.S. government though you never know. You would think they would have managed to catch Bin Laden by now if they were trying.

I think they are probably more like a pet that's gone bad and bites the hand of the one who fed it. Manueal Noriega, former head of Panama was like that too. He was a CIA stooge until he turned on them and we invaded Panama to take him down. He is rotting in Federal pen now.

I will have to agree the Republicans and the Bush administration have benefited mightily from 9/11 and Al Qaida whomever they answer to. Bush was heading towards a truly mediocre one term presidency before 9/11 save him.

They couldn't have gotten away with any of shit they've pulled without it:

- Jacking defense and intelligence up to a half trillion a year
- The Patriot Act
- Invading Iraq
- Scaring the American people so bad that they reelected him despite a record of incompetence and abuse that has most of the world despising the U.S.
- Destroying our rights to due process i.e. arresting people indefinitely with out charges or trial and subjecting them to varying degress of torture.

And coming soon:

- National ID cards, if we are lucky, with RFID tags so we can all be tracked every minute
- Merging the CIA, NSA, NRO, DIA and part of the FBI in to one all seeing all powerful spying agency, free to spy on Americans and foreigners alike, that would be the envy of the old KGB and Richard Nixon.
- Changes in the Senate rules so they can appoint extremist judges with a simple majority followed by "rule changes" to eliminate the fillibuster so Democrats can't stop them from passing their extremist agenda. Once the courts are packed and the Democrats in the Senate castrated we will have a "democraticly" elected dictatorship.