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28 Data Points: Biometrics in Michigan Schools?
Handout sheet given my child to bring home and fill out. ^ | 2008 | Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center

Posted on 10/21/2015 9:13:29 PM PDT by Don Joe

See full document (two page) at URL.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: biometrics; privacy; schools
My child was given this sheet (two-sided) to bring home and fill out.

In my opinion this is an effort to collect unique biometric identifiers on the children, and on the families. There are 28 data points, which should go a long way toward building a unique profile. (An additional field asks for "essay type" (free form) entry of parents' opinion, which would not be as useful as the essentially true/false data in the rest of the form).

My wife is more of a "go along to get along" type person, and laughs at my concerns. When I mention the "Utah Facility" she says I am paranoid.

Well, if my concerns about massive data collection/profiling are "paranoia," then what would you call the motivation for the construction of a monumentally huge structure with facilities intended to store hundreds if not thousands of years' worth of data on every communication in the country?

But, I digress.

Since we live in the age of "consensus science" I'd like to know what is the consensus on this form, and the data collection it represents. Are my concerns warranted?

By the way, while searching for information on this topic, I learned that Michigan has passed a law "restricting" schools from performing biometric scanning. This type of data collection seems to me to be a largely viable alternative to scanning -- in my opinion, it seems to provide a large number of biometric data points, without stumbling over any legal tripwires.

By the way, the teacher/school/website that has the page online (at the linked URL) is unrelated to my child's school. I found it while searching for information on this topic. It is the only copy of the form I've found online -- this teacher (with the website) apparently posts her homework assignments online.

In closing, I find it curious that this document, apparently spreading across the public schools in the state (a teacher I know has informed me that her school also uses it), maintains such a low profile -- absolutely no searchable data on it that I've been able to find, other than the one copy that slipped into a teacher's online homework assignment.

1 posted on 10/21/2015 9:13:29 PM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Don Joe

Creepy. And none of their damn business.


2 posted on 10/21/2015 9:17:06 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Don Joe

If it is truly BIO metric data, ask the school for their HIPPA policy and compliance.


3 posted on 10/21/2015 9:19:29 PM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: Don Joe

I don’t see anything wrong with it.
But I gave up any notion of privacy
when the Patriot Act was passed.


4 posted on 10/21/2015 9:19:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Don Joe

WARNING: It downloads automatically. Very annoying.


5 posted on 10/21/2015 9:21:22 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
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To: Don Joe

I bet there is a third page with questions about the bumps on your child’s head.


6 posted on 10/21/2015 9:22:14 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: Don Joe; All
This sort of cr-p has been tried by the closet commmies before. Way back about 1950-53 a number of school systems tried similar data collection telling students in elementary schools to identify whether their parents were Rep, Dem or other and what was their church and how active and what did their parents feel about ‘foreign aid’ (back then this was a big red flag issue for the libs. People opposing it were very suspect, probably racist and fascist, etc.) This created a real uproar when it came out. I was firmly instructed to refuse to answer any such questionnaire and to tell instructional staff to contact my parents. I would do the same thing with this turd. Write a note of refusal attach it and send it back with the questionnaire. Do not cooperate. Commies then, commies now at work.
7 posted on 10/21/2015 9:24:54 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: Don Joe; robowombat; All

Thanks for the information; advice. “It’s for the children.” /s BUMP!


8 posted on 10/21/2015 9:48:26 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Don Joe

If you’re worried about it, lie. Not only do they not get YOUR information, it begins to poison their database.


9 posted on 10/21/2015 10:14:45 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: Still Thinking
If you’re worried about it, lie. Not only do they not get YOUR information, it begins to poison their database.

When I was in grade school in the 60s an assignment was to provide a floor plan of our houses. After consulting with my parents, I drew up a very nice house and handed that in. It wasn't where I lived, nor may it have even existed anywhere, but I did not provide a guide to which room to head for to steal or injure family members, either.

Of course, my parents were leery of government intrusion then, and have been proven right on every count so far since.

10 posted on 10/21/2015 11:25:18 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Don Joe
The only data the schools need is the student’s home address, parents’ names and phone numbers, emergency contacts and who is permitted to pick up the child.

Any other data is voluntary.

Tell the school that the rest is none of their business.

11 posted on 10/22/2015 12:58:07 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Still Thinking

>> poison their database.

But subtly.


12 posted on 10/22/2015 1:20:37 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Noumenon

Actually, I’m more offended by the blatant gender-normative bias so obviously present in the questions themselves. ‘Father’? ‘Mother’?

What about Mommy #1, #2, etc.?

And nothing about race, either? How can we keep track of population trends if we can’t properly identify the children of the union of a Polynesian and Lithuanian?

/sarc


13 posted on 10/22/2015 5:20:56 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

And the goat. These days Nanny Goat has a whole new meaning.


14 posted on 10/22/2015 10:05:59 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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