School May Use RFID Chips to Track Students
Schools in Connecticut could soon do away with the age-old hall passes and monitors method of tracking students in favor of a more technologically advanced system that utilizes RFID chips.
Your school probably had some kind of system in place to keep track of students leaving class to go to the bathroom, or go on an errands for staff. Whether it was hall monitors, head boys and girls, or prefects, it's likely that your system involved human trackers. However, if the school board in Canaan, Connecticut, give a Westport security company the go ahead, hall passes could be a thing of the past. Instead, schools in the area would use RFID chips embedded in ID cards to keep track of students during school hours.
The RFID technology would also allow the school to monitor students movements in the event of a fire, as well as keep a close eye on visitors to the premises. There's also talk of possibly using the technology to track who is using which district school buses to make budgeting easier, as well as using the chips to track school equipment. Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Abbey said that students would participate in the program voluntarily and would also require parental consent.
The idea was broached by a security company called SecureRF Corporation. The company approached the schools as part of its research to investigate the uses of RF technology in commercial practices and schools. The NC advertiser cites Founder and Chief Executive Officer Louis Parks who says his company is looking to make a partner out of the school board.
"We are looking to test this technology with a partner," Parks told the school board on Monday. "The primary role we are looking for from [the school board] is the feedback and input."
Though the board is intrigued by the idea, officials say they won't sign off on anything until they hear more about the program and have all the information.
"The board hasn’t approved anything other than participating in discussions and exploration of a grant that may or may not have application to our school district but that has some exciting features that may work," Abbey said.
Board member Amy Rochlin echoed his thoughts on the project, expressing her interest but highlighting the need for more information on how it would work.
"From what I am hearing I am interested in exploring it more," she said, "…but as a board we need to know what they are signing off on."
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I will sue them. sueee. (remembering when Cartman got abuse controller shit in his mind, vchip something, fkn hilarious)
What's preventing me from leaving my RFID hall pass in my locker while I run out for a beer?
i predict private school attendance will rise around schools that implement this. those who can't afford private schools will protest.
And people still say the big conspiracy is just a theory for the nuts...
Some kids will no doubt get in trouble wrongly because the teacher forgets or is to stupid to update on a computer that the kid is going to the bathroom or something.
Awesome picture, Jane.
Personally, I would microwave the thing. +1 for blurr91 by the way.
oh this is most definitely not voluntary. what, people actually believe the kids will have a say in this? no waaay. They will enforce it, or they will be punished. Yet, kids are REQUIRED to go to school by all 50 states' laws. So what a great way for a school to get around the federal government and go against peoples' (including children) human rights. Jeesh..if children are going to be required to attend school, why can't school abide by guidelines and districts that follow the same in a typical workplace. Last i checked, i didn't have to get a pass signed or badge in at my job to use the restroom.
But its fine, i'll just shit all over the floor in my classroom, and i'm not cleaning it up. that'll show'em.
Last time I checked Children are American citizens. No where in the Constitution does it say that you can ignore the rights of Children. Yet, this happens all the time in public schools.
This is a pilot program to get the system ready for the injected into your body version, which will probably be some unelected pencil pusher's decision made for you on your behalf of course.
What's preventing me from leaving my RFID hall pass in my locker while I run out for a beer?
Why would you be IN your locker? lol
I still remember ware they tried making students ware GPS devices so they could be tracked at all hours. This is conditioning people into thinking that this is the new norm when it is nothing more than tyranny.
1984/brave new world
"resistance is futile"
srsly people when are we going to stand up and say enough is enough? If you want to implant your kid with a gps tracker or something for safety then that's your decision but keep my kid out of it. If you think that just because you know Timmy left out door 126 to corridor 110 at 9:06am that that will tell you where he went after leaving school grounds to go get high youre fooling yourself. But of course you trot out the old "oh this will help us during an emergency" excuse. Screw you Connecticut! Screw you and the civil liberties you trode on to get here!
Why would you be IN your locker? lol
Clearly you were not a nerd as a high schooler....
peopel are runnign aroudn crying freedom this freedom that ,ooohh big brother .. but seriously ,while this application does indeed have potential to be abused by authorities , I think it has great potentialto do good as well. Does any one remember all those cases of women , and teen girls going missing from school grounds , only to be found later a corpse ??? granted the ill purposes of this are on my mind i think i'drather my childhave one that to be the kid that got napped by some demented perv and or serial killer. though i do find the school'sreasonign to be a bit .. paranoid
I nearly dropped out of school when they forced us to wear ID at all times. Some teachers didn't enforce it, even the principal. They all came around though with threats form the school board in my city.
I chose public school over private school so I didn't have to wear the same uniform every day for 3 years.
RFID?
I'd go back to home schooling.
Hmm it is kinda hard to abuse RFID technology due to its limited range. Once the kid walks outside the schools detectors they can no longer be tracked (school should no longer track them at this point). Bus's are a bit weird but their still school property and it would be useful to know who's riding which bus.
I'm a libertarian and I believe in maximum personal freedom, including freedom to do stupid shit that kills me. This doesn't really go anywhere near those freedoms, its not preventing you from doing anything and its not violating any privacy (its on public school property). Kids ~should~ be tracked when their on school ground, if I had a kid I would hope their whereabouts were tracked while they were at school. Now after they leave school its no longer the schools business whats going on.
peopel are runnign aroudn crying freedom this freedom that ,ooohh big brother .. but seriously ,while this application does indeed have potential to be abused by authorities , I think it has great potentialto do good as well. Does any one remember all those cases of women , and teen girls going missing from school grounds , only to be found later a corpse ??? granted the ill purposes of this are on my mind i think i'drather my childhave one that to be the kid that got napped by some demented perv and or serial killer. though i do find the school'sreasonign to be a bit .. paranoid
these things won't help track students once they're outside the perimeter.
If you wanna protect students from things like that, you're gonna have to find a much more affective method. You're gonna argue with people fighting for their rights, until one day you find out your own rights are taken. That is when hypocrisy always reveals itself.
This is getting a little to close to a particular sci-fi movie(s).
This is so messed up. From laptops that spy on students to RFID in passcards, Facebooks new "feature" that allows your friends to track your movements, and the ability to be tracked by a cell phone unless you remove the battery.
I don't want to be tracked. I never purposely break the law, but the places I go is nobodies damned business!
I read in the paper tonight that a man was cited in Snowflake for CUSSING in public!
Things are getting weird.
This is utter bull. As if monitoring some kids inspires liberty, trust and good government. This is a definite step towards total control. Why do bureaucrats think they have to authority to do this?
Time to act against such actions! This is reprehensible and irresponsible. It's like the government owns the kids. It's just keeping inventory on property apparently.
Well, I think everyone should re-read the Declaration of Independence which can be done at www.constituiton.org! Those who mean to be our masters must be taught that we are theirs!
Pretty soon we'll all have RFID or whatever comes next surgically implanted at birth... this is getting out of hand, why does everybody under the sun need to track everyone else every microsecond of every day.
This is utter bull. As if monitoring some kids inspires liberty, trust and good government. This is a definite step towards total control.
How about their desires for monitoring everything on flights including your heart rate and body temperature to grab anyone who's sweating or has a rapid heart beat for questioning just in case their a terrorist. Or how they keep the 3d body scans of everyone from those blasted airport scanners so they can identify you anywhere and everywhere using your 3d body image on file.
If Benjamin Franklin were revived somehow he'd be leading a new revolution ffs...
I LOLed as soon as I saw the picture of Eric Cartman. I'm going to have to watch that episode again. I've seen them all.
Last time I checked Children are American citizens. No where in the Constitution does it say that you can ignore the rights of Children. Yet, this happens all the time in public schools.
As a middle a school teacher, I promote democracy in my classroom, but I do not practice democracy there. At school kids are there to learn, not "express their rights". Try teaching for one day then tell me about protecting kids rights. Children have for to many right as it is. "I will sue you teacher if you......" And people wonder why our education system in the USA sucks.
I think these are a good idea. Any kid that complains about privacy in school is missing the point of being in a public facility.
As a middle a school teacher,
Children have for to many right as it is. "I will sue you teacher if you......" And people wonder why our education system in the USA sucks.
I hope for the chilren's sake that you don't teach English.
peopel are runnign aroudn crying freedom this freedom that ,ooohh big brother .. but seriously ,while this application does indeed have potential to be abused by authorities , I think it has great potentialto do good as well. Does any one remember all those cases of women , and teen girls going missing from school grounds , only to be found later a corpse ??? granted the ill purposes of this are on my mind i think i'drather my childhave one that to be the kid that got napped by some demented perv and or serial killer. though i do find the school'sreasonign to be a bit .. paranoid
And how exactly this is going to help catch kidnapper if only lead this can give is time when leaving school premises? Ofcourse only in case he don't get rid all of your stuff on place already.
Get em used to it in schools while they are young (notice the classic - for their own protection angle again), then later break it out into "open" society when it will be more readily accepted...
I think NOT !!!
Why on earth do you need a system with hall passes, monitors and even RFID chips? In most European countries, pupils aren't monitored. Still, my region (Flanders) is second only to Singapore and Hong Kong in quality of secondary education, which the US can't say...
It's simple here: if you miss too many classes, you get a few detentions. If that doesn't work, the police comes to have a chat with you and your parents. But tracking when pupils go to a toilet? That's just draconian.
America, nation of liberty but not really liberty. The nation that accepted the Patriot Act and wants to tag children with RFID chips thinks ID cards go against civil liberty?
What most people fail to remember is that schools are responsible for the safety of students. Knowing where they are in the building is important in emergency situations (fire, tornado, lockdown, etc.) Not to mention that some states (like New York) require attendance be done on a block or period basis. In New York, low attendance can lead to reduced funding and/or intervention by the state.
As usual, I see a lot of opinions based on misinformation and ignorance. It's an RFID tag in a ID card, not implanted in their skin! You have to pass near an RFID reader to use them, and it's only useful if the RFID tag number is recognized by the system reading it!
This is not big brother. This is school districts trying to cope with (unfunded) State and Federal requirements to make sure kids are in class and to maintain their safety while in the building!