Why an ankle bracelet and not a dog collar?
This would never happen to a child of mine.
Under the guise of “ it’s all for the childrens benefit” , it is imprisonment and should be taken to court and fought tooth and nail.
WTF are the parents in this ? ( I didnt read whole article yet )...... but wow,I’d pull my kids out of school so fast the school admins’ friggin commie heads would spin and pop off.
‘cept my oldest has already graduated and my other one hasnt even started school yet.
The responsibility of the public school system is to educate your child so that they can read, write and do math sufficiently to function as an adult in society. Not to gather data on them for other purposes. Anybody who lets their kid wear that bracelet is an idiot.
We need to raise a huge stink about this now, before other school districts get similar ideas.
I hope that Freepers with children in that school district remove them immediately.
Another article says the parents will have to give permission “mainly because of the responsibillity involved.”
Oh, really?
Read the comments at the end of the article. They are scathing.
It sounds like a way to accustom them to constant monitoring. If they get used to this as children, there is no telling what they will be willing to submit to as adults.
They should all take their kids bracelets, go to Home Depot, and put them on the paint mixers for a while, or stick them on the dog’s collar for the weekend.
And then young Conan unsheathed his yataghan, and there was only the screaming, the semicircles of glittering steel, and blood drops spattering against the walls with a sound like blowing leaves...
Sorry...thought this was one of those threads where each person gets to contribute to the story... ;^)
I bet not one of the kids wearing these bracelets can name the Vice President, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the capitol of the state they live in and it is because the schools spend so much time on nonsense like this. I have decided to teach my kids about American history and our founding because they surely aren’t getting it in school.
This is just plain ol’ BULLS**T.
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Is this before or after they put the schoolprison on “lockdown”?
These elitists are sickening and I can not beleive Americans cooperate with them! No way would they be monitoring my children! Way over the line!
My school district would never send my kids home with these. They know the bracelet would be returned attached to a brick.
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Nanny State and Another Reason to Homeschool ping.
For those that don’t know, and FWIW, Parkway is one of the better School Districts in St. Louis county. The kids are largely from upper middle class families in an affluent section of the Metropolitan area.
These are not the kind of folks I would expect to be on board with this kind of Bolshevik crap.
I wonder how proud they'd be about their meddling if you put it on your dog who likes to run around the back yard lickety split for hours on end. I also wonder if the unit has a special display down at Nanny Central that announces it's taking a trip through the city sewers.
When did even better health become any of their beeswax? I reluctantly concede they have the authority to teach my kid math, but that's about it.