Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @03:27AM from the does-your-body-belong-to-the-state? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two Schools in San Antonio are using electronic chips to help administrators count and track students' whereabouts. Students at Anson Jones Middle School and John Jay High School are now required to wear ID cards using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology embedded with electronic chips in an effort to daily attendance records. The article said the Northside Independent School District receives about $30 per day in state funding for each student reporting."

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Familiar... by SuricouRaven · 2012-10-16 03:32 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Wow, it's just like the teacher taking attendance! Except that it uses technology to automate the task, saving valuable lesson time. Clearly this is another example of government oppression.

Or does it work like patent law, where adding 'on a computer' to a well-established procedure turns it into something completly different?