Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?

AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?"

Re:indoctrination

[Rob the Bold]

Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.

And this is certainly the first time a school has done anything like that . . .

Re:indoctrination

[0100010001010011]

I actually just have a personal identification number. I think a personal identification number number would be a bit harder. Is it like a matrix of vectors?

Like PIN[0]=1234, PIN[1]=5678. So my PIN number for school would be 1, but my PIN number for my luggage would be 0.

Now from the summary I don't even know what a personal identification number code is. Unless you have a secret code to unlock a little brief case that contains your PIN.

Re:indoctrination

[dloose]

That was an awesome post. I look forward to your pointing out acronym-aided redundancies in the future.

Re:Somebody's Lyin'...

[stonewallred]

Lol, in grade school we had choices at lunch. You could have what they were serving that day, or you could go without.

Re:i hate big brother but...

[QuantumFlux]

Don't these children know their 7-digit home phone numbers?

Nope, they just scroll to "Mom" in the Contact List of their cell phones. These *are* 5 year olds; they might not be able to tie their shoes yet but they're not savages!

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[similar_name]

If my school had had a Taco Bell, adults would have come to school to eat as it would have been the only fast food place for 30 miles. :)

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[Mr. Freeman]

Duh, your personal identification number number is so that you can get money from the automatic teller machine machine.