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Schools’ Tracking Devices Causes Controversy
CBS Houston ^ | 11/25/12

Posted on 11/26/2012 8:20:53 AM PST by pgkdan

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio school district’s website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus.

A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district “is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.”

(Excerpt) Read more at houston.cbslocal.com ...


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Land of the free...what a quaint idea.
1 posted on 11/26/2012 8:20:59 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: pgkdan

Calm down people. You’ve voted to give up your liberty, it’s a simple transition really. It won’t take long, and most of the public is too stupid to miss it.


2 posted on 11/26/2012 8:23:50 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Hey all you Freepers who keep crowing about how Texas is the Land of Milk and Honey and how we few remaining “sane” Californians need to get in our cars with all of our worldly possessions in the trailer behind and move to Texas so we can be “free.” Texas is just a few steps behind other states on the road to Marxism. If this had happened even ten years ago, the Texans I knew would have had the school board and the administration strung up in the public square. This is absolutely outrageous! What’s next, eliminating the cards and just putting the microchips under this skin like the family pet? This whole RFID thing should be brought to a screeching halt, at least insofar as human beings are concerned.


3 posted on 11/26/2012 8:31:04 AM PST by vette6387
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After the little 12 year old was taken in Baltimore on Wednesday, it might not be a bad idea. Can you imagine being a parent against this and then your child disappears? I think they would still say “yes my child has vanished but I still have freedom.”


4 posted on 11/26/2012 8:31:34 AM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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When I was in school if they tried something like this it would never have happened. We would have burned the ID badges in the student common area.

Think about it, what are they going to if you don’t wear the badge, expell you?! Like that is a big punishment, more time at the beach.

The kids today are such sheeple.


5 posted on 11/26/2012 8:34:24 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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After the little 12 year old was taken in Baltimore on Wednesday, it might not be a bad idea.

It is a bad idea. You are reaching for a solution to a completely different problem.

6 posted on 11/26/2012 8:36:18 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: napscoordinator

These RFID signals “supposedly” only work within a certain distance from the school, so at best it would tell them that you are not at school - it won’t help them locate you.


7 posted on 11/26/2012 8:41:28 AM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: pgkdan

The fight against “soft” tracking measures will be a big one over the next 20 years. It would be smart if we got ahead of it now.


8 posted on 11/26/2012 8:45:40 AM PST by Noamie
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“After the little 12 year old was taken in Baltimore on Wednesday, it might not be a bad idea.”

Think harder.


9 posted on 11/26/2012 8:47:41 AM PST by Noamie
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RFID is lazy man’s attendance. Don’t have to take attendance and it is difficult to fake the attendance. Not sure it provides any other benefit. Besides, what is really telling the school is the location of the ID. Child could just as easily give the ID to a friend and the school would be none the wiser.


10 posted on 11/26/2012 8:49:34 AM PST by taxcontrol
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This is just the first step toward requiring kids to be chipped to attend school. Don’t have the chip -> no school for you.


11 posted on 11/26/2012 8:54:54 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: taxcontrol

That is until they force them to implant the chip under their skin.


12 posted on 11/26/2012 8:57:19 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ExTxMarine

It would certainly help in a hostage situation within the school.


13 posted on 11/26/2012 8:57:45 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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This is just the first step toward requiring kids to be chipped to attend school. Don’t have the chip -> no school for you

And then the next logical step is to implant the chip. No chip? No food, no job, no 'rights'. Sounds like a bad idea. Bad as in evil.

14 posted on 11/26/2012 9:06:28 AM PST by pgkdan (We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)
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“The kids today are such sheeple.”

The kids? How about the parents! At least one girl in one of the schools affected filed a lawsuit on religious grounds and received injunctive relief. I just e-mailed another Freeper who is from Texas and she told me that the schools in Texas have been a “socialist experiment” since the 1980’s when she lived there and spoke out against them publicly. Just how can Texas be the panacea that it’s being sold to the rest of the country as, if it’s schools are the same load of crap that they are in the rest of the country? At least I understand that the teachers there can no longer hit your child without your permission, but that corporal punishment is still the law there. How enlightened!


15 posted on 11/26/2012 9:06:50 AM PST by vette6387
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This is just the first step toward requiring kids to be chipped to attend school. Don’t have the chip -> no school for you

And then the next logical step is to implant the chip. No chip? No food, no job, no 'rights'. Sounds like a bad idea. Bad as in evil.

16 posted on 11/26/2012 9:06:50 AM PST by pgkdan (We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)
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Often friends and I in HS went wandering in places we shouldn’t have been. The principal would sometimes catch us. He would reprimand us as a group and then point to me and say ‘you. you go to school here?’

Now his rfid reader could eliminate that question.


17 posted on 11/26/2012 9:07:06 AM PST by posterchild (Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.)
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To: taxcontrol
RFID is lazy man’s attendance. Don’t have to take attendance and it is difficult to fake the attendance. Not sure it provides any other benefit. Besides, what is really telling the school is the location of the ID. Child could just as easily give the ID to a friend and the school would be none the wiser.

Come on people. Educators have been stealthily brain washing our kids for generations. American history books are full of references to Harriet Tubman, MLK and the Civil rights movement but barely mention George Washington or any of the Founders in anything more than an insultingly cursory manner. 40 years of this b.s. and we get the 'Lamest Generation' re-electing barack obama.

This use of RFID is just a way of sofenting us up to accept even more intrusive measure later on.

18 posted on 11/26/2012 9:12:03 AM PST by pgkdan (We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)
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To: vette6387
At least I understand that the teachers there can no longer hit your child without your permission, but that corporal punishment is still the law there. How enlightened!

Texas still has corporal punishment? Good for Texas!

19 posted on 11/26/2012 9:13:09 AM PST by agere_contra ("An unjust law ceases to be a law: it becomes an act of violence". Thomas Aquinas)
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I hate to break this to you, but it is much worse than you think.

This isn’t about privacy, or control, or education for that matter. It’s about what makes school systems tick these days - money.

The school gets paid by the number of students in first period. After they collect their money, they couldn’t care less where the kid is the rest of the day. In fact, I doubt they even care if the kid is there at all - just somebody bring his dam badge to class so we can get even more money.

The school system, at every level, is hopelessly broken. Until we turn it into a ‘for profit’ institution run be business professionals, this crap will keep happening.


20 posted on 11/26/2012 9:19:38 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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