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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[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.

[wumbawoman]

Here's their website info, http://www.nisd.net/studentlocator/. I'm curious how the pilot program even got approved. I can see holes in their logic and I'm not even fully awake.

[papilio_luna]

Yeah, I have a feeling this is not going to fly as a requirement for all students. Opt-in with parents' permission? Maybe. Otherwise? Nope.