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Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?
AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?"
Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
And this is certainly the first time a school has done anything like that . . .
I am not a crackpot.
I actually just have a personal identification number. I think a personal identification number number would be a bit harder. Is it like a matrix of vectors?
Like PIN[0]=1234, PIN[1]=5678. So my PIN number for school would be 1, but my PIN number for my luggage would be 0.
Now from the summary I don't even know what a personal identification number code is. Unless you have a secret code to unlock a little brief case that contains your PIN.
That was an awesome post. I look forward to your pointing out acronym-aided redundancies in the future.
Lol, in grade school we had choices at lunch. You could have what they were serving that day, or you could go without.
Don't these children know their 7-digit home phone numbers?
Nope, they just scroll to "Mom" in the Contact List of their cell phones. These *are* 5 year olds; they might not be able to tie their shoes yet but they're not savages!
If my school had had a Taco Bell, adults would have come to school to eat as it would have been the only fast food place for 30 miles. :)
Duh, your personal identification number number is so that you can get money from the automatic teller machine machine.
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