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School-Lunch Monitoring System for Parents

Posted by Zonk on from the love-the-ap-photo-of-the-kid-sucking-down-a-burrito dept.

karvind writes "According to Yahoo, three school districts in the Atlanta area last week became the first in the country to offer the parental-monitoring option of an electronic lunch payment system called Mealpay.com. The system was initially designed as a convenient way to make sure children bought lunch without worrying that lunch money would get lost, spent on other things or stolen. But on parent's request online meal-monitoring option was added and now parents can see all of a student's lunch purchases."

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  1. The Wisdom of Will Smith by still_sick · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember an interview with him in Playboy a while back.

    Can't remember the exact quote, and I'm too lazy to look it up, but esesntially it said "Being my son's father, I forbid him from listening to Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor tapes, but I really hope he's sneaking them behind my back.".

    This school lunch thing is all kinds of lame. Any parent who subscribes to this should be ashamed.

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    ...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
  2. I had something like this in my old hs by guardiangod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A few years ago, one of the local IT start-up reached an agreement with the school board that is similar to this.

    What they offered was a debit-card look-a-like that uses prepaid credit to buy cafe food.

    However they made a fatal mistake...

    To maximize their chance of success in the pilot school (which was the one I attended, they had a plan where each new card would automatically get 10 dollar credits-

    They never saw it coming :) As you can probably guess almost every student signed up for 10 cards (morality? What's that?)- The pilot testing was withdrawn after six months.

    pity

  3. getting (too) accustomed by l3v1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My problem here, besides finding the whole idea quite aberrated and obnoxious, is that these kids will grow up being monitored with gps, cells, what they eat, how they spend, what they do on the net, etc. etc., and - god forbid - they will grow so used to being monitored that when grown up they will accept more easily all the stuff their government is even now trying to impose.

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    I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.