Judge stops school from expelling girl who refused to wear tracking device

[jettakd]

A Texas high school student will be allowed to continue going to class for now despite her refusal to cooperate with a program that forces pupils to be mandatorily tracked with computer chips.

Andrea Hernandez was told she’d be expelled from John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio starting next week if she insists any

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[kekekekekekeke]

mark of the beast D:

[cozmic_oceanz]

what the hell...I'm guessing this must be a private school and that is how they are getting away with it...but even so...wtf.

That girl is awesome. The other students should follow her lead!

[papilio_luna]

Northside Independent School District

That's a public school district.

[cozmic_oceanz]

WTF. Howww....

[papilio_luna]

Students while in school don't really have their full range of rights. If a school can justify that the learning environment will be harmed if students are permitted to do XYZ, then courts usually agree. This, however, I think is fairly questionable and I'll be interested to see what happens.

[katrinar]

So wait, they told the kids/parents they HAD TO, but did they ever ask for signed permission from the parents to track these kids?

That's some next level big brother shit.

[ragnor144]

I'm glad that it is being challenged, but I kind of wish that it wasn't under the "Mark of the Beast" objection by the student. I think some people will write this off as a legitimate privacy concern because of the religious aspect.

[mamasboo]

True, I don't want the bigger picture lost due to people who freak out when religion is mentioned. I respect her reasons to not want to be tracked and it seems obvious to me that anyone and everyone should fight such a ridiculous thing, but religion will make it harder to be taken seriously.

Are the teachers also being tracked? What's the point and what's the lesson here, exactly? That when you're an adult your boss/job should be tracking you, too? I also don't see how it makes anyone safer.

[tilmon]

If you think that religion will make anyone take her less seriously, you haven't been to Texas.

[toxic_glory]

nearly spit my drink out reading this

but yeah, I don't think it'll necessarily hurt her case. it could make it into more of a freedom of religion issue

[redstar826]

I'm not sure that it would violate any privacy laws to track kids within a school building so long as that information isn't shared with anyone who shouldn't have access to it.

I can see where schools want to create a foolproof system to track attendance since it can be a pain in the ass and sometimes it just doesn't happen perfectly (teachers accidentally mark something wrong, teachers forget to do it one hour, subs screw it up and/or kids purposely fuck with the sub trying to take attendance, etc). However, I am not convinced that this is the way to do it.

[darsynia]

Well, for one thing, it would depend on how specific the tracking was. It's not the school's god damned business how often I pee, for example.