Education

Parents upset that San Antonio schools put RFID tags on their kids. Good for them, but what are they going to do about it? They should yank them out of those schools, out of government schools entirely, but will they? At the least the article explains how the chips help the school get money.

"The system can track students who missed the morning roll call, but still made it to school that day."

So kids are coming in late. How much do you want to bet the problem is with buses or with traffic problems caused by the school? This reeks of another oppressive government non-solution to a problem created by government.

"The RFID system corrected that number, showing eight of the 71 were actually in school that day. The map showed several students were in the band hall where practice ran late, while others were near the office. The school would have lost $240 that day if the chips would not have been in effect."

""The revenues that are generated by locating kids who are not in their chairs to answer 'present,' but are in the building - in the counselor's office, in the cafeteria, in the hallway, in the gym - if we can show they were, in fact, in school, then we can count them present," he said."

So the school has discipline problems with both teachers and kids, so they're treating all students like animals. It has the added bonus that it teaches children they are subordinate to their rulers. Remember when people thought it was a good idea to fund schools based on attendance? This is a consequence.