Parents Upset Over Lunchtime Palm Scanner

[Forever_frost]

DO they have nutritionist on staff at every school yet? They do this so there can be no way a kid can buy food for their friends on their account.

No, they do this so you get used to having an 'authority' scan you for you to get food

[abecx]

I'm not afraid of my kids having a hand scan.

It is no big deal you say, lets see if you have the same face when I hack the Gibson and sell the information about your kids to NAMBLA.

People that don't 'get it' just have lack of imagination. Lets sit around an wait while people in charge know your social habits and how to manipulate you whether they want it or not. Whenever I compromise their database using my army of GPU's, I'll engage your social group with ideals that I know will get them to do my bidding regardless of them being conscious about that decision or not.

Its a Big Deal. Its not about tracking them for their lunch. Its about just tracking in general.

Exactly.

[Baba Ganoush]

Definitely seems like another waste of money. It doesn't matter what the schools force on the kids, they'll just keep getting fatter. If the government wants to control every aspect of a child's life, it wouldn't be very hard nowadays. They already willingly offer up every infinitesimal, insignificant bit of information they can and share it with their 10,000 "friends" on social media. Besides, most parents today are inept and would gladly let the government decide their children's best interest.

I attended my 11 yr. old nephew's football game tonight and I can tell you, school lunches and tracking a kid's every move is the least of a parent's worries. I remember not so long ago being in 8th grade and having the "one fat girl". Now you have to count kids that are NOT overweight, and it's a very small proportion. 9 out of 10 cheerleaders were overweight, and they're not even teenagers. It's really sad.

[silverhatch]

http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/

Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.
Since October 1, students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, have been asked to attend class with photo ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to track every pupil’s location. Educators insist that the endeavor is being rolled out in Texas to stem the rampant truancy devastating the school's funding. If the program is judged successful, the RFID chips could soon come to 112 schools in all and affect nearly 100,000 students.
Students who refuse to walk the school halls with the card in their pocket or around their neck claim they are being tormented by instructors, and are barred from participating in certain school functions. Some also said they were turned away from common areas like cafeterias and libraries.
Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay, said educators have ignored her pleas to respect her privacy and told her she cannot participate in school elections if she refuses to comply with the tracking program.
Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible's apocalyptic Book of Revelations. When she reached out to WND with the school’s response, though, she said that she was threatened with not being allowed to vote for her school's homecoming king and queen for disobeying the student ID rule.
"I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID," Hernandez told WND. "I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years we were in school. He said I needed the new ID with the chip in order to vote."
After Hernandez refused to wear an RFID chip, WND reported that Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo issued a statement to the girl's parents: “We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.” If she is allowed to forego the tracking now, the repercussions will be harsher than just revoking voting rights for homecoming contests once the school makes location-monitoring mandatory, he argued.
“I urge you to accept this solution so that your child’s instructional program will not be affected. As we discussed, there will be consequences for refusal to wear an ID card as we begin to move forward with full implementation,” Galindo wrote.
The girl’s father, Steve Hernandez, told WND that the school was somewhat willing to work with his daughter, but said that the family is unwilling to “agree to stop criticizing the program” and publically endorse it.
“I told him that was unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district’s policy and my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong,” Mr. Hernandez responded.
The Northside Independent School District expects to collect upwards of $2 million in state funding by reversing its poor attendance figures, with the RFID program costing around one-quarter of that sum to initiate and another $136,005 in maintenance. The new funding may not offset the other damages that could arise: Heather Fazio of Texans for Accountable Government told WND that she filed a Freedom of Information Act request for $30 and received the names and addresses of every student in the school district.
“Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere,” she said.
Kirsten Bokenkamp of the ACLU told the San Antonio Express-News earlier this year that her organization expected to challenge the board’s decision to use the tracking system, but the school went ahead with the program undeterred. Steve Hernandez told WND that he approached the ACLU abour representing his daughter’s case, but Rebecca Robertson of a local branch of the organization said that, “the ACLU of Texas will not be able to represent you or your daughter in this matter,” saying the case did not meet the group's criteria.

[SS Junk]

It is no big deal you say, lets see if you have the same face when I hack the Gibson and sell the information about your kids to NAMBLA.

People that don't 'get it' just have lack of imagination. Lets sit around an wait while people in charge know your social habits and how to manipulate you whether they want it or not. Whenever I compromise their database using my army of GPU's, I'll engage your social group with ideals that I know will get them to do my bidding regardless of them being conscious about that decision or not.

Biometrics are being used in more than just schools yet now you decide to bitch about it? It's not that I don't agree with what you're saying, but what exactly are you going to do? Whether you like it or not shit like this will be commonplace soon enough.

[Forever_frost]

Take your ID, put it in the microwave, and turn it on for 5 seconds. RDFI chip disabled.

[Jester]

Biometrics are being used in more than just schools yet now you decide to bitch about it? It's not that I don't agree with what you're saying, but what exactly are you going to do? Whether you like it or not shit like this will be commonplace soon enough.

So let's just bend the fuck over and take the fat government dick right up the ass without a fight!!!!!

[Forever_frost]

Drives me crazy when people don't see more and more intrusion into your life by the government and they think it's fine

[SS Junk]

So let's just bend the fuck over and take the fat government dick right up the ass without a fight!!!!!

Go ahead and fight. See what happens.

Drives me crazy when people don't see more and more intrusion into your life by the government and they think it's fine

I don't think it's fine, but instead of talking shit about it on the internet, what are you going to do about it?

[Jester]

Go ahead and fight. See what happens.

Go ahead and be a coward......see what happens.

You want to put a chip on my kid to track them? go fuck yourselves.

[ELVIS]

Go ahead and be a coward......see what happens.

You want to put a chip on my kid to track them? go fuck yourselves.

yeah fuck that! id rather them be killed by a huge meteor!!!!!!

god bless.

[Jester]

yeah fuck that! id rather them be killed by a huge meteor!!!!!!

god bless.

Absofuckinglutely. I would rather see the world end than watch my kid's freedoms be ever so slowly taken away until one day they are not allowed to think for themselves at all. Mindless zombies beaten down by a government that controls you "for your own good."

[SS Junk]

Go ahead and be a coward......see what happens.

You want to put a chip on my kid to track them? go fuck yourselves.

LOL... Talk all the shit you want, but I guarantee you aren't going to do anything about it but sit there crying in your hash.

[Forever_frost]

Go ahead and fight. See what happens.


I don't think it's fine, but instead of talking shit about it on the internet, what are you going to do about it?

Been to Washington DC a dozen times in the past 3 years talking to Congress. You?

[SS Junk]

Been to Washington DC a dozen times in the past 3 years talking to Congress. You?

About this? Doesn't seem to be working very well in your favor.