Texas Students Required to Wear Tracking Devices

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The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas is reguiring middle & high school students to wear a tracking chip around their neck while on campus. The RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip tracks the location of a student at all times. It’s purpose is to reduce truancy. Many parents and students are opposed to this. High school sophomore Andrea Hernamdez refuses to use the new IDs, citing invasion of privacy and religious beliefs, calling the tracking devices the “mark of the beast”. Should we be concerned about this?
 
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The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas is reguiring middle & high school students to wear a tracking chip around their neck while on campus. The RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip tracks the location of a student at all times. It’s purpose is to reduce truancy.
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Because no student will ever dream of having a friend take their tracking device to class for them. Then they can “prove” they attended class because the tracking device shows they were there.:rolleyes:
 
I am not so sure I would be willing to let my child wear such a thing. It just sounds creepy.
 
mexolic said:
The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas is requiring middle & high school students to wear a tracking chip around their neck while on campus. The RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip tracks the location of a student at all times. It’s purpose is to reduce truancy. Many parents and students are opposed to this. High school sophomore Andrea Hernamdez refuses to use the new IDs, citing invasion of privacy and religious beliefs, calling the tracking devices the “mark of the beast”. Should we be concerned about this?
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The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas is reguiring middle & high school students to wear a tracking chip around their neck while on campus. The RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip tracks the location of a student at all times. It’s purpose is to reduce truancy. Many parents and students are opposed to this. High school sophomore Andrea Hernamdez refuses to use the new IDs, citing invasion of privacy and religious beliefs, calling the tracking devices the “mark of the beast”. Should we be concerned about this?
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Is it a violation of our constitutional rights? I would take that approach. Of course, given the recent administration’s HHS mandate I doubt a violation of one’s constitutional rights will matter.

Unless you want to fight the school board, you may have to render to Ceasar…
 
I think at minimum they need to get parents’ permission. Its another instance of the gov’t trying to raise our children for us… as for the tracking chip being the mark of the devil, I think the national health card required by Obamacare will do the trick better:D
 
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The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas is reguiring middle & high school students to wear a tracking chip around their neck while on campus. …
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Even Muslim students?
 
Watching Red Eye last night they discussed it. Apparently there is a court case (don’t recall it exactly) that determined that children at school have “diminished” constitutional rights once they cross the school’s “gate”
 
I don’t want people knowing when and for how long I go to the bathroom.
 
This is a great idea but not far enought. i beleive that at birth every one should get a chip implated in them. Now this chip should only be used when a) the person is kinaped , b) running the the law, or c) underage runaways. all other times it is inert. This would benefit us greatly.
 
SamH said:
Because no student will ever dream of having a friend take their tracking device to class for them. Then they can “prove” they attended class because the tracking device shows they were there.:rolleyes:
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:clapping::clapping: The going rate - is extra snacks… to offset the presidents lifeless lunch program:p:D
 
marvinb1 said:
This is a great idea but not far enought. i beleive that at birth every one should get a chip implated in them. Now this chip should only be used when a) the person is kinaped , b) running the the law, or c) underage runaways. all other times it is inert. This would benefit us greatly.
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So much for privacy. I wouldn’t trust the operators to only do that.
 
According to the Northside ISD website set up to explain the program, there are three goals in requiring the IDs:

** THREE GOALS**
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Increase student safety and security. Our students' parents expect that we always know where their children are in our schools.

Increase attendance. Through more efficient attendance management, schools can generate additional revenues by identifying students who are not in their seats during roll call but who are in the school and locate them. (Increased attendance = increased state revenues)

Provide multi-purpose "Smart" Student ID card. The Student ID will provide access to the library and cafeteria, serve as a photo ID, and allow for the purchase of tickets to schools' extracurricular activities. Other uses will be rolled out during the pilot program.
nisd.net/studentlocator/

The two schools where this pilot program is taking place were selected because they have the lowest attendance rate in the district.
 
For a state that prides itself on Liberty, Individualism, and the Constitution they certainly don’t live by it. :rolleyes:

I’ll say one thing, from the amount of bullying I faced in school; truancy kept me from taking my own life…sad to think where I would be today if my school had did this. 😦
 
According to the FAQ on the website set up to explain the program, teachers at the schools will also be required to wear the lanyard and ID card.

nisd.net/studentlocator/faq

Here are a couple interesting questions with answers from the FAQ
Q.5 Is the use of RFID tags an invasion of privacy?
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A.5 No. A student has no privacy interest in preventing the school from knowing where they are while on school property. To the contrary, the school system is expected to know, and parents expect the school to know, where the children are at all times. Schools have employed systems to do this since the one-room schoolhouse. Presently, schools use class scheduling, uniform class start times, uniform class ending times, specific time periods for in-between class transit, and specific schedules for lunch periods, study halls and library activities. These schedules and time frames are maintained by school computers and manually monitored by teachers and administrators and each student is subject to a certain time scheduling and class scheduling protocol depending on their grade level and course selection. Anything that helps a school perform this vital function with more accuracy and less cost is beneficial to the school and the student.
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Q. 6 What student information is public and what student information is private?
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A. 6 The “Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act” (FERPA) is the Federal law that applies to all educational agencies and institutions (e.g., schools) that receive funding under any program administered by the Department of Education. FERPA is administered by the Family Policy Compliance Office in the U.S. Department of Education, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99.
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FERPA generally prohibits the improper disclosure of personally identifiable information derived from education records. WGA’s “smart” ID card contains no education records of students. WGA’s system contains no education records of students. All student records are maintained by the school or school district on their internal computers and servers. WGA’s “smart” ID card does not facilitate access or grant access to any student records as those records are maintained and accessed only through the school or school district’s computers and servers.
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Its not like they have a 3d image of all the people, so there is still privicy. As catholics we shoul not be doing any thing that we would be ashame to tell people any way. and for people who say shower time should be private againg you would be a blip on the screan not a 3d holograph image for people to look at.
 
Q.5 Is the use of RFID tags an invasion of privacy?
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A.5 No. A student has no privacy interest in preventing the school from knowing where they are while on school property. To the contrary, the school system is expected to know, and parents expect the school to know, where the children are at all times. Schools have employed systems to do this since the one-room schoolhouse. Presently, schools use class scheduling, uniform class start times, uniform class ending times, specific time periods for in-between class transit, and specific schedules for lunch periods, study halls and library activities. These schedules and time frames are maintained by school computers and manually monitored by teachers and administrators and each student is subject to a certain time scheduling and class scheduling protocol depending on their grade level and course selection.** Anything that helps a school perform this vital function with more accuracy and less cost is beneficial to the school and the studen**t
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Once again another Ends justify the Means argument. :rolleyes:
 
Dale_M said:
According to the FAQ on the website set up to explain the program, teachers at the schools will also be required to wear the lanyard and ID card.

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Here are a couple interesting questions with answers from the FAQ

…Anything that helps a school perform this vital function with more accuracy and less cost is beneficial to the school and the student. …
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Anything? We can chain the students to their desks and know where they are at all times very accurately, so why don’t we?

Look. This is the military approach: punish everyone for the transgressions of the few. It is also a symptom of the age of non-discrimination: nothing and no one is better or worse than anything or any one else. Baloney!

I can see this being used on the habitual truants and troublemakers [and we all know who they are], but not to those who don’t bother anyone, do their assignments, and get good grades.
 
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