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Court Temporarily Blocks School District From Suspending Student For Refusing To Wear Student ID/Tracking Device
by Tim Cushing Nov 27 2012 Techdirt
from the maybe-someone-should-ask-the-administration-to-wear-one-during-the-work-day dept
A few months back, Tim Geigner covered the story of a Texas school district's efforts to track its students' whereabouts using student ID cards with embedded RFID chips. The district attempted to paint this "students-as-livestock/prisoners" effort as being there for the safety of students and staff. But underneath all the "safety" talk was a large pile of money that the school district hoped to pocket. The so-called "Student Locator" project Texas' Northside Independent School District was implementing put school officials within handout distance of nearly $1.7 million in state government funds.
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or, perhaps it's from-the-children-as-chattel department ...
Bill Horne Moderator