Parents Upset Over Lunchtime Palm Scanner

[talisman]

lol @ saving time. I wonder how much those hand scanners cost to save that incredibly huge 5 seconds it takes to pay for something out of pocket. Shit like this is why I'll never donate a cent to schools.

[Treasure Chest]

lol @ saving time. I wonder how much those hand scanners cost to save that incredibly huge 5 seconds it takes to pay for something out of pocket. Shit like this is why I'll never donate a cent to schools.

Here's the thing. Most kids don't pay cash daily. They have their credits on account. They type in the kid's student ID, and their meal is debited from the account. Scanning a palm is no faster than having the lunch attendant type in a 5 or 6 digit student ID or looking up the student by last name. It's bullshit technology and a waste of $300k.

[SS Junk]

It's a biometrics device. I believe it is to save time. My kid's school allows only 13 minutes for lunch. That's from the time he gets out of class until his next one. Who cares anyway. They have the kid's personal info anyway. What is bitching about it going to do?

[Treasure Chest]

It's a biometrics device. I believe it is to save time. My kid's school allows only 13 minutes for lunch. That's from the time he gets out of class until his next one. Who cares anyway. They have the kid's personal info anyway. What is bitching about it going to do?

Yes, it's a biometric device....how does that save time? It only takes a fraction of a second to type in an ID number. It's just an excuse to waste taxpayer money and buy a cool new toy.

[line-em-up]

Im sure it will... What will it prove to the GOVT? The fact the kid got some nasty ass pizza or hamburger they probly will trade for something from a friends sack lunch or better yet, just eat the jello and toss the rest in the trash? Guess they need to put hand scanners on the trash cans to see if they ate the entire lunch or took atleast a bite of a veggie.

The govt already has access to your childs school info anyways, they do roll call every day. So now they scan a hand for a freaking lunch and parents freaking out. The ones throwing a fit are the ones that can probably afford to pay for school lunches yet signed up for the assistance for the free/pay like 50cents for a lunch instead paying the few dollar like every other kid has too.


Parents should be more worried about what the child is doing with that smart phone, on facebook, etc...

The govt is setting up new systems every day to make it easier for them to track our every move. This is just another piece they will use to tell us how to live our lives. They are already trying to tell us what our kids can and cannot eat and forcing their will upon the parents. There are already many stories about that in the news.

So what if I am paranoid. I am that way for a reason. Do you not see where our country is heading?

[line-em-up]

A hacker can steal your child's info from the minute they are born. Just as easy as people do at ATMs, gas pumps, etc.

In that case, let's go ahead and give them one more tool.

[line-em-up]

lol @ saving time. I wonder how much those hand scanners cost to save that incredibly huge 5 seconds it takes to pay for something out of pocket. Shit like this is why I'll never donate a cent to schools.

Excellent point. They will spend a trillion of our dollars so they can claim to have created new jobs.

[91CoupeMike]

13 minutes? Wtf we had 30 + 2 5 minute intermissions.

I don't see anything wrong with this.

Hacker stealing lunch money? Wtf.. Most of the time there is no money on the accounts, just debts the kid/parent owes. If there is money it is generally very little, why would someone take the time to get into system to steal 20-50$ at the most?

This also protects the parents/kids money from other kids getting the others account number and charging lunches. Which happens a lot.

You people getting upset over this need to step back and see it for what it is, your child's fingerprints have already been taken. Mine were taken when I was in the 1st grade, was some identification in case we ever went missing. They had police officers taking our prints. Big ass deal.

[line-em-up]

My kid's school allows only 13 minutes for lunch. That's from the time he gets out of class until his next one.

And what's the deal with only 13 minutes for lunch? I think we should do that at our jobs too. We'd see how long that would last.

[juiceweezl]

Here's the thing. Most kids don't pay cash daily. They have their credits on account. They type in the kid's student ID, and their meal is debited from the account. Scanning a palm is no faster than having the lunch attendant type in a 5 or 6 digit student ID or looking up the student by last name. It's bullshit technology and a waste of $300k.

That's assuming the kindergarten kid remembers his number every time and someone doesn't have to look it up. I don't see thee issue here, and it certainly isn't a "they're collecting data" one. My kid has an account at school. I can log on and see what he eats whenever I want. When it's empty, it dings my CC for $25 at a time. If the school wanted to use the money for the system, then so be it if they budgeted for it. This eliminates time looking up numbers and also fraud in the case of someone using another kid's number to buy their own lunch.

[ceyko]

It's pretty simple however, don't want your kids hand scanned pack them a sack lunch or put them in a private or home school not a PUBLIC school.

In all seriousness, you do need to be more paranoid.

Although, all this crap is a slippery slope that we're already sliding down at nearly full speed. A lot of "Americans" or "voters" are from places where life down right sucks. They have no issues with giving up things that we've been used to because it's still 1000x better than where they are from.

However, they also don't have any grasp on what America is really supposed to be about.

I guess this is just another example of "the Federal government protecting the people."

[SS Junk]

Yes, it's a biometric device....how does that save time? It only takes a fraction of a second to type in an ID number. It's just an excuse to waste taxpayer money and buy a cool new toy.

You multiply those few seconds it saves each kid by a few hundred, it saves quite a bit of time. They're looking at ways to save time to increase the student count is the way I see it.

And what's the deal with only 13 minutes for lunch?

I was wrong. They get 23min for lunch. I agree as far as work is concerned, but for school, part of growing up is socializing.

[red95gts]

LOL @ this thread. I went and had lunch with my Kindergarten son on Friday. His school has a system where each kid has a 4-digit PIN number they tell the lunch lady. I'm sure more than a few 5 y/o have trouble remembering it but even then the bottleneck was the actual serving line. The kids can get through the PIN entry portion faster than the lunch ladies can get the food on the tray. Speeding up the first step doesn't do anything to get the kids through the line faster, at least at my kid's school.

The parents should be outraged that the school district wasted their precious financial resources on this unnecessary and ineffective technology. If the privacy issue is that big of a deal, then pack the kid a lunch.

[jluv]

I am so thankful that I don't waste time and energy being as paranoid as a lot of you. I mean, what's the point, when the world is going to end in less than 3 months anyway?

[racrguy]

When I was in school you had a bar code on the back of your id that the lunch lady would scan, and if you forgot your id you had your student #. What happened to that system?