In Pilot Program, Student IDs Track the Students
SAN ANTONIO — For Tira Starr, an eighth grader at Anson Jones Middle School, the plastic nametag hanging around her neck that she has decorated with a smiley face and a purple bat sticker offers a way to reflect her personal flair. For administrators, it is something else entirely: a device that lets them use radio frequency technology — with scanners tucked behind walls and ceilings — to track her whereabouts.
Anson Jones is the first school in San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District to roll out the new nametags, which are part of a pilot program intended to ensure that the ...
Comments (3)
David Spratt
I applaud their efforts. This does gradually condition the next generation to the idea of having their movements tracked. Rather than having a card, this paves the way for eventually implanting chips that can be programed with vast amounts of information. A police Officer can simply scan you to find out who you really are. If there has been a crime committed in the area this scan would also tell him where you were at the time. Banking information could be on these chips. You could pay for purchases by scanning your hand and the government could also track your financial transactions and compare the amounts of income you claim as relates to how much you claimed to have made and paid taxes on.
No way to cheat the system then,,, you will do your " fair share" and they will see to it. Removing or tampering with this chip will be an imprisonable offense or possibly it could be neurologically tied to brain or heart function so that tampering would result in death. Oh what a wonderful Brave New World it will be !
Gritsforbreakfast
“It gives the kids a little bit more responsibility, knowing that we as a faculty are keeping up with them,”
That's the opposite of "responsibility" if the kids do what they're supposed to only because they're being constantly monitored. Actual responsibility would mean the kids had been taught to do what they're supposed to when no one is looking. The framing of this as promoting "responsibility" is flat-out Orwellian.
Besides, who believes kids won't readily carry around other students' ID cards so their friends can sneak away? This will solve very little and the kids will very quickly figure out how to manipulate it. A waste of time and money.
Yvonne Schick
Sorry, Matthew Simpson, packages and cattle may have been the test pilot but it sure looks like we are headed toward Big Brother tracking our every move and this is the next phase. They have the technology. Now they have a very socially acceptable (in the eyes of many) justification. Young people will get conditioned to being tracked so that when it is time to imbed the chip in the back of their hand, it is more convenient than keeping up with that badge.