U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students

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U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students

Postby Baconsticks » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:26 pm

http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/youth/34613prs20080107.html
(NaturalNews) A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.

The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.

Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus's current location as provided by the GPS device.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children's privacy and a potential risk to their safety.

"There's absolutely no need to be tagging children," said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU's Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are.

"[This program is] a solution in search of a problem," Brown said.

The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children's school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children's attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.

Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but "it's a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students' private information and monitor their movements.

Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.

I think that I actually agree with the ACLU for once.
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Postby datherman » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:29 pm

My question is what the use of it would be? What benefits are gained through the blatant invasion of privacy (what little there is left anyway)?

What school is this? Elementary school? High school?
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Postby Mista_B » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:41 pm

Parents or school officials or pedophiles could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus's current location as provided by the GPS device.
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Postby Fritz » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:46 pm

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Postby rabid_fox » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:22 pm

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Postby Bocaj Claw » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:02 am

I'm in favor of invasive surgery to implant microchips into small children. Especially if the microchip has a self destruct option.
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Postby Mista_B » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:02 am

Wouldn't it just be easier to cutie mark a bar code on the back of their heads?

Or maybe just mark them with some kind of number.
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Postby Rooster » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:11 am

We could cutie mark them all with a number on their wrists and attatch some sort of symbol to all their clothes...maybe a yellow star?

Then again, why stop there?

We could dress them all up in orange jumpsuits, shave their heads, and lobotomise them with ritalin. It might be a little Orwellian, but at least Airstrip One had order goddamnit!

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Postby Baconsticks » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:28 am

We could cutie mark them all with a number on their wrists and attatch some sort of symbol to all their clothes...maybe a yellow star?

Then again, why stop there?

We could dress them all up in orange jumpsuits, shave their heads, and lobotomise them with ritalin. It might be a little Orwellian, but at least Airstrip One had order goddamnit!
why stop there even? We could suppress all their emotions with drugs, make them wear only white clothes, and replace names with numbers.
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Postby Mista_B » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:37 am

We should also give teachers tazers, or guns. Y'know, to keep the kids safe and all.
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Postby Fritz » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:50 am

We should also give teachers tazers, or guns. Y'know, to keep the kids safe and all.
It's sad that this has actually been suggested before.

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