Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School

coolphysco1010 writes "When a parent arrives to pick up their child at one of three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District, they'll need to look into a camera that will take a digital image of their iris. That photo will establish positive identification to gain entrance into the school..The Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System (T-PASS), a software application developed by Eyemetric Identity Systems, was installed on the front office computers at each of the three schools."

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Iris database

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And so if a parent refuses to have their privacy infringed just to pick their child up from school will the child be held indefinitely or expelled?

Hooray for bullshit!

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Most kidnappings/molestations, etc. occur within the family/friends, so you'd probably get better protection if you only let the kids go home with strangers... No, I'm not serious, just making a point that this won't do much of anything.

What if parents divorce and only one has custody? The school's system wouldn't know this unless it was told so by a human. Do you think it would be updated fast enough to prevent the other parent from picking up the child and abducting him/her?

Schools = Prisons

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Y'know there was a time when people were encouraged to feel welcomed in schools. Schools are supposed to be a vital part of the community, and its getting so you can't enter your local grade school without a blood analysis and background check. Treat them like prisons and people will think of them as prisons, with all of the social malladies and baggage that come with that.

And on another note, why is it not enough to just ask for ID and have parents sign something? Its one thing to watch the doors to keep drug dealers out, its another to ask parents to submit to retinal scans.