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Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-everywhere-they're-everywhere dept.

AT writes "The Brittan School District in Sutter County, California, is requiring students to carry RFID-tagged identity badges on them at all times. Readers are currently installed at the doors to all classrooms. Readers were removed from bathrooms when parents protested. The school district is meeting next week to consider parents objections to the system." Relatedly (but not), Leilah writes "The University of California is considering using RFID tags or bar codes to help track their collection of bodies and parts. They are attempting to reopen their body donation program which has been on hold since spring 2004 due to disappearing parts - they've previously had legal trouble over improper disposal as well."

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  1. There Is No Escape by fembots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Readers were removed from bathrooms when parents protested

    They must have forgotten about those RFIDed toilet paper. Someone I know received a $94 invoice for "Excessive use of toilet paper" from her son's school.

    Seriously though, tracking body parts is fine since they're donated "inventory", but tracking a human is a different matter entirely.

    And I'm not going to make a joke about the ease of transition from that school to the university.

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  2. Re:a rant.... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Parents are no longer on the side of teachers and the administration. It is a battle with the parents believing that their child can do no wrong and everyone is out to get that child.

    That is because school administrators and teachers are losing their fucking minds.

    Today you have kids getting suspended for having nail clippers. A kindergarten kid was punished for wearing a halloween costume that consisted of a fireman with a plastic axe. 3 kids were punished for possessing pornography because they had a drawing of a stick figure with breasts and a penis.

    When I was a kid, if I was in the wrong my mother woudl have my ass in a blender. If I wasn't wrong, my mother would raise hell at the school.

    If the school admins weren't such asshats, the parents wouldn't need to be so adversarial.

    LK

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