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Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar
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."
It's like when you accidentally 93MB of .rar files.
Steve Hernandez, whose daughter is a sophomore, objects to the tags, saying they are similar to the "mark of the beast."
"My daughter should not have to compromise (her) religion just because Northside Independent School District wants to get paid," Hernandez said.
Let's see here... You don't use capitalization and make use of sentence fragments. Sure, I'll believe that your teachers didn't care!
WWBTD?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Kids will never think of having a friend hold their card while they go off to do whatever it is kids do nowdays.
I think somebody accidentally a word.
Capitals are the oppressors of the lower case. The lOWER cASE has as much rights as the Capital Case.
What his teachers tought him is that all are characters are equal! What you are trying to say is that some characters are more equal than others. Shame on you.
The problem here is that if your kid's school tracks your kid this way on the school campus, your kid likely won't have a problem being tracked that way all the time when they are an adult. Schools are at least as much about social engineering as they are about education. So, unless your attitude is "I got mine, screw my kids." you should be outraged at a school trying to do this.
You must be a ball at parties...
"Why would I want to play a game that encourages me (and others!) to work out the best way to weaken the structure of a tower, leading to its inevitable collapse? The insanity! When we leave here, someone is probably going to go knock down some buildings on the way home, seeing as how we were all conditioned to believe its normal..."
Just play some fucking Jenga, and get yourself off the slippery slope. Not everyone careens helplessly down it.
Hush yo mouf!
I jus talkin bout Jimmy
I'm not sure I like Jimmy.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
"and seeing as it isnt embedded in his arm"
So the obvious answer to this dilema is to embed RFID tags in students arms.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
OK completely off topic, but I think "verb" is a cool word. I mean, just say it in your head a couple of times. Verb.
Verb.
VERB!!!!
OK, back to work you guys.
+1 Disagree
1) Jimmy's girlfriend goes to the girls restroom/gym with his ID. 2) System notes that Jimmy's in the girls restroom/gym. 3) Jimmy gets permanently listed as a sex offender.
I can mend the break of day, heal a broken heart, and provide temporary relief to nymphomaniacs.