Tracking Students Like Cattle

[Gelston]

I'd like to also throw in real fast, tha there does come a point where enough is enough. Tracking kids off school grounds or the deal with the school turning on web cams on school computers without warning qualify as that.

[Cephalopod]

I prefer counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I think they should all be micro-chipped like my dogs and then their position broadcast to googlemaps live 24/7.

Or, to help pay for the microchipping, the school charges for a hunt night where the wild youngsters are set free in the parking lot and you get to shoot them with a tracking dart. Hell, I don't even have kids and I'd pay to do that!

[Latrinsorm]

School officials say the devices improve security and increase attendance rates, a figure that's important because some school funding is tied to attendance. The Spring district uses the tracking system to find students counted absent by classroom teachers.
Often, the student is somewhere else on campus, allowing the district to recover $194,000 in state funding since December 2008, said Christine Porter, Spring's associate superintendent for financial services.


I have no problem with this. I remember in my Junior and Senior year in HS we had to wear ID cards at school. They didn't track us, but you were required to wear them, visibly, at all times. If you forgot to bring it, you got a nice little orange paper pinned to your shirt, which also served as your Saturday detention slip.

And then you joined the military. Cause and effect, match point to the military-crypto-industrio-fascist complex.

Privacy is for hippies. Comprehensive surveillance is long overdue. We're living in a society, here.

[Kyra231]

I brought up not wanting to be tracked. There are no qualifiers; it applies under all circumstances.

You admitted to wanting your children's school to use RFID chips to track them. I am not making anything up and it does speak to your parenting, unless you think that making decisions for your children is not parenting in which case that also speaks to your parenting.

When video surveillance on a bus becomes a realtime tracking device, let me know. When an attendance sheet becomes a realtime tracking device, let me know. When signing your name on a piece of paper becomes a realtime tracking device, let me know.

When the justice system relieves me of being responsible for my kids being at school then I'll be happy to go without the tracking system. In the meantime were my kids one of the ones who skip regularly & put me in danger of going to court/paying fines/jail time/etc then hell yes I believe they should do everything they can to know where they're at.

[Kyra231]

I'd like to also throw in real fast, tha there does come a point where enough is enough. Tracking kids off school grounds or the deal with the school turning on web cams on school computers without warning qualify as that.

Agreed. I approached my 2 teens with the idea & they just shrugged it off. There's so many rules & regulations they have to adhere to they're not worried about one more thing, especially when it's an ID card they could drop in a locker & walk off without if they really wanted to.

[4a6c1]

Holy crap I just dont know how I feel about this at all. I seriously cannot make up my mind. I think I've considered literally every possible outcome of the long term usage of these things and my brain hurts from thinking about it. So I'm going to stop and just let it play out. This almost never happens to me that I cant make up my mind about something like this...it might be a bad sign.

[Bobmuhthol]

There's so many rules & regulations they have to adhere to they're not worried about one more thing, especially when it's an ID card they could drop in a locker & walk off without if they really wanted to.

This is such a hypocritical argument that I can't begin to describe it.

[Kyra231]

This is such a hypocritical argument that I can't begin to describe it.

So repeating what 2 teens told me they thought of it = my opinion and it's an argument? You're funny.

[4a6c1]

Well...opinion is argument. As soon as you have an opinion and speak it you are starting an argument. Not that argument is bad. It is necessary for critical thought and in turn the evolution of our silly little primate brains.