Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students 294
First time accepted submitter Boogaroo writes "The Washington County school district in Florida has placed fingerprint scanners at the entrance to Chipley High School. They've also made a decision to run an alternate trial by placing the scanners on buses since most kids in the district ride buses every day. Since the beginning the fingerprinting, attendance is up, but not everyone is in agreement that the costs and risks are worth the attendance boost." Aren't there simpler and less-creepy ways to count kids, like looking at empty desks?
Re:It certainly is creepy (Score:4, Informative)
Re:freaky (Score:4, Informative)
I feel duty-bound to point out, the US is a wee bit behind on this..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/09/schools-surveillance-spying-on-pupils
http://www.vericool.co.uk/index.html
etc etc etc...
Just Google fingerprinting +schools + britain
Y'know I bet you Orwell didn't realise he was writing a feckin 'How to' book...
I hope you are joking (Score:2, Informative)
In my country some towns do this. Policemen patrol the city, identify every young person, then contact their school to check if they have a class at the time. If they do, the policemen take them to the station, and their parents have to come for them. The same happens if the kid can't identify themselves, wich is really absurd because here you are not required to carry an ID 18, and you can't even get one 16.
Re:I've worked with finger print scanners. They su (Score:5, Informative)
And that funding is based on who is enrolled, not who shows up for class each day.
Is that how it works in Florida? In other states, funding is based on Average Daily Attendance. If you have 5000 students "enrolled" but only half show up every day, you only get funded for 2500 students.
Re:I've worked with finger print scanners. They su (Score:4, Informative)