Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar 540
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."
Do what with daily records? (Score:5, Informative)
I guess I should RTFA, but:
I don't know what that means...
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Funny (Score:4, Informative)
Me and my co-workers have RFID-enabled badges to access our workplace and PCs, and it leaves logging trails for sure. No-one around here seems to be in an uproar about it.
Of course, here they have proprietary company property to protect.
Re:Here's the best bit in the article right here; (Score:3, Informative)
A key passage for interpreting Revelations is the right at the start of the book,
Rev 1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
So, I am pretty sure these RFID tags have nothing to do with the "mark of the beast", as almost 2000 years must surely be a stretch for "soon". They are similar in that the mark of the beast was necessary to "buy and sell" (i.e. government approval required) -- and the RFID tag being necessary to get the "public education".
No, having said that, if the person really believes that, I don't see how the government should be able to "force the child" to carry their RFID tag, as I am pretty sure that a public education is a constitutional right in Texas. -- That's the thing about rights, they are there to protect when even when your right is not popular (yes, even if it is stupid).
lol ... only in America ... (Score:4, Informative)
in Germany, we worry about educating the children, if they don't want to be there then so be it. We also train children to be more independent.
Examples with photos! [womanaroundtown.com]
Re:Microwaves are fun. (Score:5, Informative)
Then the police look into the alibi and determine that it's just a chip. They talk to the techs just to make sure their suspicions on the validity of chips for tracking is correct; they are not reliable enough to stand up in the court of law.
So they go to the school and ask the teacher and kids if they remember seeing Jimmy on the day of so-and-so. His girlfriend swears he was there, but they find her not to be a reliable witness - being his girlfriend and all. Others, however, only recall his badge sitting lonely at his desk.
The police then review the hallway security cameras, and put the feed next to the badge ID logs. Sure enough, when his girlfriend enters, two IDs are logged; hers, and Jimmy's. When she leaves again, two IDs are logged; hers and Jimmy's.
The police collect the information as evidence, take down formal testimonies, and write up a report as to Jimmy's claimed alibi.
Jimmy is found to have lied to the police, and the police find themselves armed with another argument in an eventual court case, and more leeway in the investigation. His girlfriend will be brought in for further questioning and may eventually be charged with aiding and abetting.
Whether or not Jimmy would be tried, let alone convicted, is another matter altogether. But his alibi would be shot down long before that.
Real life just doesn't always fit with people's idealistic views that all cops are stupid and/or lazy and/or corrupt.
Re:Microwaves are fun. (Score:4, Informative)
God no. Once you're inside the building you can't get outside without first speaking to the attendance officer, being signed out, then taking that to the office. They lock the doors during the day and the only way out is literally through the main office.
Not that it matters -- you get 20 minutes for lunch. If you had a car you'd *maybe* have time for the mcdonalds drive through if you ate on the drive back. And you have four minutes between classes. And no such thing as free periods -- even if it's the first or last class of the day, if you have nothing scheduled they assign you to a room where you sit in complete silence for 40 minutes.