Northside Independent School
District spokesman, Pascual Gonzalez, tells Fox News that, "Beginning in the middle of October, roughly 4,200 students at John Jay
High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio will be
required to wear the ID cards that utilize radio frequency
identification. The card, which will be worn on a lanyard around each
student’s neck, will transmit location information via microchip to
electronic readers throughout the campuses."
He says that it's only for the students' protection and that it is, "non-threatening technology," and that it is, "not surveillance.”
A lot of parents support this new technology, but Steven Hernandez, and his daughter Andrea, think that it is a violation of privacy and want to protest against this tracking system for students. Andrea thinks that this new technology is not going to work out the way Pascual Gonzalez hopes it will and thinks that other students won't like it either. She is also afraid that the tracking devices will get, "hacked or misused" by someone.
Other parents say that they care about their child's safety, and think that the tracking devices will benefit their child, if their they were to go missing or were hurt somewhere where they would never find them.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering,wrote a statement saying that she was against the idea of tracking students down and writes, “Schools, of all places, should be teaching children how to participate
in a free democratic society, not conditioning them to be tracked like
cattle. Districts planning to use RFID
should brace themselves for a parent backlash, protests and lawsuits.”
Gonzalez disapproved the statement and says that the tracking system has been, "successful in Houston’s Spring Independent School District for at least the past five years."
I support this, because I appreciate it when total strangers invade my privacy!!!111one!!eleven!!1
ReplyDeleteIn case you didn't get it, that was sarcasm.
These people.
WHY.
Stalkers!!!!!!!!!!!! If Dallas were to try to do this to me, i wouldn't wear my badge...that's an invasion of privacy. They need to just stick to survalence cameras if they want to watch their kids.
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ReplyDeleteThat is so not right!!! I can understand if some of the students are skipping class, but why should they punish everyone? That is such an invasion of privacy.
ReplyDeleteC'mon this is not the Hunger Games. You don't need to put a tracking device on your students. People these days, gosh.
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