Poll: Texas Students to be monitored with microchips.

[Frozen Fox]

What a waste of money, who care if we can put more kids in their seats we still are not teaching them correctly

Who cares if we're teaching them correctly if no one shows up.

still have to get it in order. A mandatory meting with 10 million people in attendance that teaches nothing is still worse than an non-mandatory meting with one single person in attendance that does teach something

 

[Frozen Fox]

I have to say this is also motivation for me to ditch school as a whole rather than just the classes I did, or rather it would have be if I was still attending such things.

 

[Leadfinger]

Ooo...creepy and Orwellian.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Haha, thats messed up. I see this being abused in the future. Though it seems really easy to beat. Have a friend carry your ID to the next class if hes in it, and BAM! Skipping made easy.

 

[EHKOS]

If we can't stop the government, I am going to move to a nice pacific island only touched by crabs and ocean birds. And I will finally be in peace.

 

[saoirse13]

And so it begins. More ways to control people.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

No, bad idea.
Unless they're schools for criminals of course.

 

[Saladfork]

Weren't a lot of American schools having funding problems? Just how much would these cost? Why can't that funding go into hiring more teachers or lowering school fees or something?

Also, pointless, ridiculously easy to dupe, etc.

 

[370999]

ITT: lots of people disliking the idea of being tracked, while not realizing the thousands of other ways they are being tracked every day of their lives.

Well then, I'd love to hear how my movement is being tracked. Go on, tell me.

I think you are older then the norm but the school I went o had security cameras stationed around the place. Usually so they could check the logs if people got into fights/know who was smoking.

Of course the blind spots were figured out real quick but meh.

Besides when you were at school didn't you have to get permission to leave the class to go to the bathroom?

This proposed system just seems to be too costly to be effective.

 

[NiPah]

So how quick before the shit security of some two bit private agency leaks the personal information of children on the internet? I always love blind faith in the government picked agencies people have, especially in two years when the contract goes to the lowest bidder to save a few hundred bucks.

What personal information? How long on average students take to get from class to class? Or maybe how often a particular student plays hooky?

Ooh, scary stalker material there.

Yes the ID transmitter number for individual students would be very scary stalker material, since you know they could use it to track that individual on their way home or even around school. Couple that with finding out a student always plays hooky on Monday, or maybe that they always go to the girls bathroom at 9:20am in the morning.

You'd have to be an absolute idiot to not see the dangers of broadcasting the movement and location of school children.

 

[frizzlebyte]

I'm not worried about the "privacy" of students at school--as has been pointed out, they don't have any. Their lockers can be searched at will, without cause or warrant, for example.

However I do worry about the effect this will have on the students later in life. Getting them used to this kind of thing in school is going to make them more likely to accept it in situations where it really is absolutely inappropriate. People already give up their privacy too easily, and this would severely exacerbate that problem.

This and this. The privacy aspect of this is totally pointless, IMO. It's the social conditioning that I'm more concerned about.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I fail to see why this would be a bad idea like 80% of you do not, but i also do not comprehend why such a (probably expensive) system would be necessary

 

[GenericAmerican]

So education IS getting more money . . .just not for actual education, but ineffective methods of trying to keep track of students.

 

[Frozen Fox]

What a waste of money, who care if we can put more kids in their seats we still are not teaching them correctly

Who cares if we're teaching them correctly if no one shows up.

still have to get it in order. A mandatory meting with 10 million people in attendance that teaches nothing is still worse than an non-mandatory meting with one single person in attendance that does teach something

Good thing then that schools do actually teach something

Not very well to be honest but that is debatable I suppose, what is not debatable however is that if you need to track you kids so close you need to use what more or less amounts GPS to get them in to a classroom it does not matter if they are in the classroom they are not paying attention. In fact they are likely pissed I would be, i would in fact be so pissed I make smart ass comments and distract all the other kids thus lowing the quality of education.

I even feel a far grater urge to do this as I am being treated as a criminal, my school is run by dicks that treat me as a criminal then fine I will may as well act like a criminal.

 

[Warforger]

Nah, it's a pretty disgusting idea actually. I feel sorry for the people who have to attend Texas schools. Land of the free, indeed.

I wouldn't because the whole reason this is happening is because they're not very good students.

This has been done before and been proven to waste time and money.

All in all, it'll fail the moment they realize it won't stop a student from being kidnapped.

This isn't about kidnapping, this is about attendance in districts with horrible attendance. When students aren't accounted for the district does not get state funding, the idea is that if they're tracked they will have an incentive to go to school.