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."

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Glad I don't have kids

[Anonymous Coward]

We are entering an era where children are raised more to the standards of "society" (i.e. government) than the parents themselves. My kind -- people who dare to think for themselves and reject coercive authority by default -- aren't wanted or needed in this kind of world. It probably sounds cynical to some people, but I think it's best that my genetic line ends right here. Good luck to the rest of you who continue the human race -- you're going to need it.

Re:Microwaves are fun.

[arekin]

Lets take this to another extreme, Jimmy doesn't want to go to school, so his girlfriend sally who was in all his classes takes his badge with her and places it at his desk and turns in the homework she did for him. When Jimmy's teacher says Jimmy wasn't there, Jimmy points to his RFID and the fact that he turned in his homework. Jimmy's presence is his RFID, and seeing as it isnt embedded in his arm, he can be wherever his girlfriend wants him to be. Now say Jimmy is also in a gang and robs a liquor store while he is "in class", killing to clerk in the process. Jimmy now has an alibi because attendance is determined via RFID (and he turned in his homework).