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Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
An anonymous reader writes "Ten kids in a pilot program in the Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England will participate in a program that puts RFID chips in students' uniforms to keep track of their whereabouts. A group called 'Leave Them Kids Alone' is opposing the program. Bruce Schneier blogs: '...Now it's easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you're elsewhere.'"
lost my shirt trying to make the first post...
I think this is a very responsible use of "human monitoring". Its voluntary, its in there CLOTHES, and its only useful at school.
Yeah, but when you start requiring specific clothes, all you're going to do is entice the teenagers to get naked. You don't want to have naked teenagers on your hands, do you? I know I would. I mean, wouldn't. Right.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
But the record plainly shows he spent all day up inside the ceiling tiles. Off to search for the real perpetrator, cheery-o!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
England Prevails.
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
Electronic tracking is great if you happen to be a cow or an endangered elephant.
Hey! Americans don't want that crap either!
Sensors have been added to warn school officials if the students' pants are being worn too low.
Have gnu, will travel.
I would sign up for such a program SPECIFICALLY to mess with it.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Kids still need to have a physical presence. If they are not in attendance, but their shirt seems to be walking around the school, then it is clear that they have deliberately tried to circumvent the requirement to be in school during school hours.
No, it's clear that some bullies stole their shirt and tossed it around the school building all day, just to get them in trouble.
Seriously, I am glad they didn't have this when I went to school. I mean, will somebody think about the kids who are tardy? No more sneaking into a classroom after the bell rings, with your friends creating a disturbance in the opposite corner of the classroom so the teacher won't notice? No more climbing into the school building through the kitchen window after the main entrance was locked at five till eight? Holly crap, I would actually have to come to school on time!
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