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Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS
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."
Nowadays every kid has a cell phone. Why not allow the schools to install an app. that automatically relays their location back to the school every five minutes? The kids may decide to just leave the cell phone somewhere. Luckily cell phones have cameras too. If you automatically relay a picture back every hour, you can ensure that the cell phone is moving and that the kid is near it. Or require the kid to take a picture of his face next to a clock every hour. Surely that's not overly intrusive.
That's stupid. 8pm is when high schoolers should be at a friend's house getting a blow job, lest they wind up like sexually defunct college kids that had their entire sexual maturation period suppressed until it was over, fixating them into a cycle of sexual discomfort.
You all know that guy. You knew him in college. You felt sorry for him 'cause he never got laid. Then you got him a girl and he damn near had a heart attack. Today he's an astrophysicist making $$$bazillions, but he still can't get comfortable in bed.
You all know the girls too. They're the "all sex is rape" femenists and the complete dorm sluts that finally lost their virginity their first day freshman year and fucked damn near everyone. They fall one way or the other eh?
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Not just that but those who regularly skip class tend to have issues at home. To track kids who don't have problems is not resolving the issue and the issue is always what happens at home unless there is really bad bullying going on preventing the kid to go to school. This tracking system also gives predators a bigger toy to play with as GPS signals can be traced relatively easily and if you don't know how you can Google it like anything else and get your answer. MAYBE they can track those who have problems showing up just to see if the problem is at home or gang related, but if you only have these two options (I'm not a psychology major) and the parent knows it can only be either or, then they might not want their child being tracked and schools have no right to mandate it unless California decides to become even more socialist by ten-fold, in which case the parent won't have a choice. In result, this would cause parents to have their children more likely to be home-schooled or sent to a private school. Home schooling would cause more kids have bad education because it requires either a lot of money for tutoring or a good sense of teaching with the knowledge to back it up. Private school would certainly better overall and is pretty much the best way in America for an education (college is the exception here folks) so more power to the parents who send their kids to private school in protest. lol (sorry if this has terrible grammar, It's 7am and I haven't slept at all and can't concentrate too well)