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Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS

Posted by Soulskill on from the tag-them-and-release-them-back-into-the-wild dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from the Orange County Register: "Frustrated by students habitually skipping class, police and the Anaheim Union High School District are turning to GPS tracking to ensure they come to class. The six-week pilot program is the first in California to test GPS. Seventh- and eighth-graders with four unexcused absences or more this school year are assigned to carry a handheld GPS device, about the size of a cell phone. Five times a day, they are required to enter a code that tracks their locations – as they leave for school, when they arrive at school, at lunchtime, when they leave school and at 8 p.m."

6 of 515 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Conditioning by tophermeyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...so it's not a bug, it's a feature?

  2. Re:8PM? by strack · · Score: 1, Funny

    headed?

  3. Re:Great plan there by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Excuse me sir, but all the GPS hoodlums are reporting from the same location, every day!"

    "Dear god, they've formed a GANG!"

  4. Re:Great plan there by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds autobiographical.

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  5. Re:Great plan there by Push+Latency · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which means they're likely skipping class to play Dungeons & Dragons!

  6. My thoughts exactly. One problem though... by crovira · · Score: 2, Funny

    I doubt that kids have enough folding dough to make this truly profitable, unless you count pre-tit poontang from the girly-truants. (If inept sex is all you can manage; go for it. :-)

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