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Student Kicked Out Of School For Refusing To Wear RFID Tracking Badge Following Failed Appeal
cnsnews ^ | Friday, January 18, 2013 | Craig Bannister

Posted on 01/19/2013 5:28:00 AM PST by upchuck

Having lost her appeal, 15 year-old student Andrea Hernandez is leaving John Jay High School after school officials denied her request to allow her to continue her "education uninterrupted" by permitting her to use her old (chipless) ID badge which "does not signify participation in a program which I believe conflicts with my religious beliefs."

In her handwritten letter, Hernandez writes: "I do not wish to wear the new badge, even without the RFID chip, because it signifies participation in the program."

Hernandez, who has been threatened with expulsion for refusing to wear a chipless RFID tracking badge, had her request for a preliminary injunction denied by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District of Texas. Rutherford Institute attorneys argue the school is violating her rights under Texas' Religious Freedom Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

"The case will definitely move forward now, and hopefully, we will eventually find justice in the courts," John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute says.

Hernandez had been hoping the school would compromise. "If they dig in their heels, however, she will have to change schools," Rutherford told "The Right Views."


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To: bert

Bert...it has to do with the slippery slope argument. You wear a chip on your badge then next, after folks have been conditioned for a while, the authorities force one to wear them on or in one’s person. Since there have been efforts to use implanted chips(in one city in France for example) in an effort to access bank accounts without cash for instantaneous purchases...the Revelation scenario starts to come more clearly into view.

The OT bans the wearing of tattoos and to be personally marked, other than to be pierced in the ear to mark one’s permanent slavery to his master(slaves could only be held seven years, but if a slave wanted to stay permanently, his ear would then be pieced with an awl).

It might not be against wearing a “values neutral” ID around one’s neck....but it is against scripture to wear any marks or tattoos on one’s skin....especially if those marks might denote one’s acceptance of a Demonic world view and an evil economic system!


101 posted on 01/20/2013 10:24:09 AM PST by mdmathis6 ("Barry" Xmas to all and have a rapaciously taxable New Year!)
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To: MD Expat in PA
Why ping me about chips when my comment to the original poster was about the rape, drug, and gang threat he said existed in his school?

Perhaps you did not fully read both posts and inadvertently pinged me about chips. It's fast and furious here in Free Republic. I have done that on more than one occasion.

102 posted on 01/20/2013 10:41:20 AM PST by wintertime
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To: MD Expat in PA

I do not object to chips in private or government businesses. Some parents may want them for their children. That’s OK by me.

It is my personal **opinion** that if a school has such a HUGE student population that chips are needed to keep kids safe, and that the children are not known by the staff and other students, then that school is too big to be safe. Children should not be under police and court threat by the government to attend such a school, nor should the taxpayers be under police threat to pay for it.


103 posted on 01/20/2013 10:45:46 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Repulican Donkey

I wasn’t referring to yelling at anyone.

Your option of submitting to this kind of draconian situation is not one I would expect from a conservative.

What they need to do is get the 10% trouble makers out of the picture, not treat the rest of the student body like criminals and take away their freedoms in a bid to *protect* them from the criminal element.

Deal with the criminal element.

Otherwise, basically the 90% of good people are being held hostage to the 10% criminal. by their bad behavior.

We don’t need the government protecting us from ourselves in this manner as this article states.


104 posted on 01/20/2013 11:26:29 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Mr. Know It All
This badge has nothing to do with buying or selling, so it doesn’t match the description in the Bible.

You need to read "The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck. It all starts with one small step that any "reasonable person" would accept and then gradually shifts public opinion and practices.

105 posted on 01/20/2013 12:38:53 PM PST by Hope for the Republic (The 1st amendment is protected by the 2nd amendment)
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To: metmom

That will not happen. Schools do as good a job as they can given the laws that exist. Expelling a student from school isn’t an option anymore. I don’t see anything Draconian here. The kid said no. She was given an option to wear a non-chipped badge. She refused. She can feel as heroic as she wants to feel. That’s her business. Schools have had kids wear plain ID badges for years. Again, neither the time nor space exists to share the benefits to school safety those badges add.


106 posted on 01/20/2013 4:11:27 PM PST by Repulican Donkey
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To: wintertime

to be fair, I did tell the Mod that I didn’t think you meant it as profane as it was, but it should be pulled. I was actually very, very clear on that and asked that nothing further be done. Pretty much my exact words were “While we have had our differences, it’s not like her to drop the ‘f’ bomb - ever.”

If you use acronyms, just make sure that that the meaning is obvious, that’s all

And it was pulled within seconds - truly, no harm, no foul. I didn’t take offense to it, but knew it shouldnt be out on a public forum.


107 posted on 01/20/2013 8:11:29 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: upchuck
4,200 students at John Jay High School and Jones Middle School wearing mandatory “SmartID” card badges embedded with an RFID tracking chip which allow school officials to track students at all times on campus.

And this is just the beginning. Soon we'll all be tracked...

108 posted on 01/20/2013 9:04:34 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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