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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[fenris_lorsrai]

Generally unless its set to actively broadcast (EXPENSIVE) RFID are only read when you point a detector at them or you pass close enough to a detector. so it's similar to using the ping from cell phone tower to locate someone. it gives you a very vague idea where the RFID chip is. You really need two to get more precise location than "within this circle". (three being even better

[makemerun]

THANK YOU

I stopped reading at "...she told World Net Daily"

[kaelstra]

I agree, but at the same time, I can see where this becomes a slippery slope and if people allow RFID for one thing, it becomes much more difficult to protest it for another thing, or even become aware of it if they change the use/purpose of it. Once it's in place, it's easier to abuse it for more horrible privacy invasions.

(Also lol at that gif. What's weirder to me isn't the alleged couple kissing in the corner, but the person who was apparently invisible who was watching them do it)

[timepassedyouby]

Ooh, yeah, I like it if it's what you're suggesting. Anything else... um.

[fenris_lorsrai]

The replacement cost listed on website is $15 for the entire ID, so it has to be a passive set up. active tags are still up over $100 it looks like. plus you have issue of having to swap out batteries.

[redstar826]

yeah, security has become a huge problem in a lot of schools because older buildings just weren't designed with that issue in mind. In newer buildings, the office is usually right by the door so the people in the office can see who is coming in and out. One high school I work in has a check in window right at the main door so visitors can't go in without signing in. For older buildings, who knows. I work in a building where the main office is around the corner from the front door. It would be pretty easy for anyone to just walk in without being noticed (I have an ID badge since I'm doing an internship there, but I've walked in and gone a ways down the hall before even passing another staff person).

[girlwonderrobin]

I don't like this at all. If the parent decides this is best for their child, and does it on their own, that's one thing, but a school deciding that? I think that's way over the line. All of us, even those of us who are underage, are entitled to a personal, private life that nobody else knows about. I'd go for corporal punishment before I'd go for this bullshit, and I am staunchly against anyone but a parent disciplining a child physically.

[girly123]

I don't know if I'm excited or horrified that the world seems to have been swiftly turning into a cyberpunk dystopia since the early 2000's.

[skellington1]

IKR? I feel like I should be able to walk down a back alley and get black-market cranial-implanted neural hardware any day now.

/has read too much cyberpunk

[teacup_werewolf]

IKR, I swear I am gonna wake up find myself in a William Grisom novel.

[farchivist]

Excited or horrified depends on if I get to go on a run using implanted cyberware.

[ultraelectric]

Why's it always Texas? I read an article last year from The Guardian where some schools in Texas have police (actual police) on school grounds and if kids misbehave, instead of being sent to the principals office, they can get fined and have to go to court.

I can see how this could be helpful in keep track of kids at the school, but I feel we are turning so many of our schools into prisons. (Again, Texas) I'm pretty sure some parts of Texas also have a program where if you miss so many days of school, they can put a ankle bracelet on you to monitor you going to and from school to make sure you go to school.

Can we just let schools be schools?

[mamasboo]

Why can't they just make tracking mandatory for kids with attendance problems (and maybe for a limited period of time)? Why involve the entire school?

[girlwonderrobin]

Off topic, but, I love your icon. Snape modeling for L'Oreal is full of win.

[girlwonderrobin]

I'm originally from NC, and my high school was built from a prison blueprint. If you stood at certain points on the ground level, you could see how the floors were laid out like cell blocks. It was pretty freaky.