Apparently, a Texas school district is demanding kids wear radio chips to help school officials track them. School officials say the chips will help them fight truancy and in doing so increase the districts funding. I am not sure how I feel about this one. I can understand the purpose, but still think it is sad testimony to the direction public education is headed. Every day our schools seem to increasing resemble prisons. And while there may be some real benefits, there is something inhumane about “chipping” children.
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Um. I’m not sure if I agree with that or not.. It seems like they should have used the money that they spent on the badges instead of the funding.
Noooo! This is CRAZY! Things have gone wrong long ago with parents who haven’t taught kids to be responsible. It is not fair to kids who are well-behaved to wear a tracking device! Let kids reap their consequences – we don’t live in a police state – yet!
This is a really sad story:( I cannot even express all my thoughts on the topic, because it is a bit baffling that a school district has actually done this to its children, treating them like livestock.
That is so crazy! My son is still so young so I haven’t even started looking into school options. I had no idea that things were that bad right now!
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How did we reach this state? One thing is for sure, it didn’t happen over night.
I lean toward thinking this is creepy. Thanks for filling me in. Looking at the link now. I appreciate you linking this up with {MMM} this week!
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How on earth can this district afford tracking chips and the associated technology for this?! Where so many teachers are getting laid off and funding is so tight I don’t see how this is justified financially let alone ethically.
I don’t agree, but not just because of the typical reasons mentioned above. It builds a world of complacency. There becomes an assumption that the kids are where the tag says they are, therefore the teachers don’t have to actually track the students. Technology has made people lazy and I can see a teacher losing a child and “blaming” it on the fact that the tracker didn’t tell them that the child left. I say the parents should band together and all force an “involuntary transfer”, then the school can figure out how to find the money to stay open.
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