Calif. school requires radio ID tags for students
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haha, w3rd. On the subject matter, personally I'd boycott the school. Schools can't function if there are no students. If the state wants to come after you for truancy, let them go right ahead. They're not going to arrest every single student and charge them for being truant.Dedman wrote:And it shows.Stryker wrote:Yet another one of the thousands of reasons I'm homeschooled...
If all else fails, frankly, just move to another city/state/whatever. Doesn't surprise me that Cali would create/enforce something like this.
Oh look, another example of throwing money at a tech solution to the symptoms of a problem rather than the cause.
I like that they think requiring students to wear the ID tags and monitoring who enters the locker rooms is going to reduce vandalism. Like anybody who would do that sort of thing would leave their tags on. I suppose it helps catch the really stupid though.
Edit: I do think the main problem people have with this sort of thing (or at least in my case) is that they make you wear the ugly things around your neck. Gets in your way and doesn't suit the fashion-conscious? That's a recipe for disaster in high school. Now if they had the little belt clip on things with the retractable cord attached to the card like all the local tech companies have, that'll be cool.
I like that they think requiring students to wear the ID tags and monitoring who enters the locker rooms is going to reduce vandalism. Like anybody who would do that sort of thing would leave their tags on. I suppose it helps catch the really stupid though.
Edit: I do think the main problem people have with this sort of thing (or at least in my case) is that they make you wear the ugly things around your neck. Gets in your way and doesn't suit the fashion-conscious? That's a recipe for disaster in high school. Now if they had the little belt clip on things with the retractable cord attached to the card like all the local tech companies have, that'll be cool.
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Yeah, it's kinda strange that way--my parents paid for 1.5 kids' education for every one kid that they educated. How does that work? They had to pay full price for a BUNCH of school materials for them to educate their own kids, and they pay taxes (which in Kansaa are rediculously biased towards schools--they don't have enough money to buy the school textbooks for some odd reason, yet they have enough $$ to import dirt from Arizona to make a new baseball field!). They also pay taxes to the schools on the books that they buy. Sheesh.
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The principal should just go back to the tried-and-true method of having teachers take attendance, security (or whomever) manning the hallways, and keeping the "no students allowed" areas locked off. Electronic tags can't substitute for the crucial point: maintaining students' accountability for being in class during class.
Agreed. The idea is based on the premise that the students will wear them as designed. They're teenagers! I've been both a teenager and a high school teacher... trust me, after the initial threat of suspension or whatever has worn off a bit, they'll find all kinds of ways to get around the electronics. I can think of at least eight or ten just off the top of my head.Tetrad wrote:...throwing money at a tech solution to the symptoms of a problem rather than the cause.
I like that they think requiring students to wear the ID tags and monitoring who enters the locker rooms is going to reduce vandalism. Like anybody who would do that sort of thing would leave their tags on...
The principal should just go back to the tried-and-true method of having teachers take attendance, security (or whomever) manning the hallways, and keeping the "no students allowed" areas locked off. Electronic tags can't substitute for the crucial point: maintaining students' accountability for being in class during class.
That still has most of the same weaknesses as the neck-worn tags, but I agree that the students would accept it more readily.Tetrad wrote:...Now if they had the little belt clip on things with the retractable cord attached to the card like all the local tech companies have, that'll be cool.
That one was a joke bubbaTop Gun wrote:Jeez, Dedman, do you have some personal vendetta against the Bill of Rights? First the sterilization, now this...you're starting to scare me.Dedman wrote:What's wrong with that?Avder wrote:Just wait, someday soon the government is going to be injecting us with rfid tags.
Simmer down.
I'm actually not against the subcutaneous RFID tag idea in principle; I just want it to be completely voluntary. I'd opt out myself.argh, i hurt myself with these things enough as an adult (have a habit of swinging them around, I ARE NINJA!). a school full of students would kill eachother with them.Foil wrote:That still has most of the same weaknesses as the neck-worn tags, but I agree that the students would accept it more readily.Tetrad wrote:...Now if they had the little belt clip on things with the retractable cord attached to the card like all the local tech companies have, that'll be cool.
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