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Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order
BeatTheChip writes "Lawyers representing Andrea Hernandez, a science and engineering student at John Jay High School, are fighting an expulsion notice issued a week ago for refusing to wear a Smart ID badge. To represent her, lawyers filed a preliminary court injunction, seeking legal restraints on the school. She maintains stance of refusal to wear any badge containing an RFID tag for reasons of basic privacy and conflicts with her belief system. The controversial decision for her school to adopt the NFC badges is part of the Student Locator Project, tracking attendance. Local schools started issuing the lanyard badges this fall despite parental outcry at NISD school board meetings."
It won't open any doors then.
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Destroy badge, get expelled for destruction of school property.
Almost... try "_Get caught_ destroying badge, get expelled for destruction of school property."
As a school employee we took turns patrolling the lots looking for passengers masturbating in their cars right outside the school everyday as well as flashers. Yes it really is an epidemic. Sadly we can't do anything outside school grounds.
You have a choice to be home schooled if you do not like it. Another choice is take the GED test and graduate early. Many districts have alternative schools too. You do have options and I know my post might have set off a few nerves.
If you become a teacher your opinion will drastically change with the amount of disrespect and the pressure to have those test scores up to keep your job. Only teachers who have been there for awhile get tenured contrary to what they say on Fox News.
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>I doubt that this system here is much different from clocking in to the lessons.
It's massively different. Do you know why ?
Because you are PAID to be at work, while you (or your parents but it amounts to the same thing) PAY to go to school.
The roles of authority are in fact, exactly, reversed. A school is there to serve YOUR need to get an education. We allow them to institute a measure of discipline so that one selfish kid cannot interfere with the other kids wanting the same. But this is no different than a shop putting up a "one per customer" sign on a special, they are merely protecting the rights of their OTHER customers.
But the school is the CUSTOMER here, moreso - they are a STATE customer paid for by TAX money - that makes them public SERVANTS.
They're duty is to give children the education their parents WANT - never the other way around.
Do you get why this is different?
Allowing your schools to make a rule that intrudes on religious freedom (whether or not you agree with the religion or it's interpretation of the rule is NOT in fact relevant) is NO different from allowing the president to ban the practise of Islam.
That's what this is like. An employer is well within his rights to decree that a Muslim wanting to do Friday prayers must put in leave for it if it falls during business hours - and this is why many muslims prefer to work for other muslims (who won't make a rule like that but would rather close the shop) . That's fine because it's a voluntary choice to work for THIS employer and he is paying you for your time and obedience.
The school is not paying her by mutually agreed contractual consent for HER obedience. She is paying THEM to teach her - and the limits to their making of rules ENDS at "is needed to ensure that she does not disrupt the education of OTHER paying customers".
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Why not skip school and have a friend carry her ID around... is that so hard for teachers to actually take attendance? Social problems CANNOT be solved with technology solutions... such as voting machines.
Tomorrow is another day...
Why not act like any sane university, and mark people based on their demonstrated ability with the subject, rather than their attendance.
University in the UK, and originally was based on the idea that the information would be provided, and the students would be put near it. Whether, and how one got into the other was entirely up to the student.
Because this isn't a university. It's a high school, which means the child is basically forced by law to attend each day and is treated as property.
But tey don't CLAIM to be using it for class to class attendance. Fry it, then wear it around.... Staff is probably more concerned because it IS a "security risk" to have people running around that don't belong. My local high school had an issue with a 20-something lurking around and ended up in the girls' locker room. Since then, everybody without a lanyard getsstopped and questioned by ANY faculty roaming the halls... Not just "hall monitors".
As an IT person, I'm plain skeptical about the tracking stuff anyway. I'd be 100% certain that nobody in IT is watching this, and nobody in security is watching either. They might have a screen with the little dots moving around, they might pull reports... I doubt the accuracy of any place not staffing 2-3 full time staff on this.
As for "conflicts with her belief system" she can just fuck right off with that. You don't get to be excused from policies, laws, regulations, etc. just because they "offend your belief system".
Actually, you do in a lot of cases (conscientious objectors are one example, some religions are actually exempt from taxation in another). You ever heard of the first amendment? Let me remind you of the first sentence: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" The amendment is not just about free speech, you know.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton