The Northside Independent School District in San
Antonio, Texas is using RFID devices to track students. Here are a couple of stories on the topic:
Personally, I think the use of RFID chips
wholesale on kids is a little much. But…that’s
where our society is going – we’ve been slowly morphing from a culture of
compliance and accountability, to a culture of babysitting. In other words, whoever proposed and
implemented this initiative is taking the easy route. Instead of doing it the “hard” way by dealing
individually with those who violate the rules, they’ve opted to make everyone
pay by tethering them to a technological solution. Never mind human interaction and trying to
further understand kids’ psyches; let’s just tie a computer around their necks and
be done with it, so we can go back to our little sterile administrative
offices, computer screens and meetings.
If local governments were really concerned about
funding and providing solid educations for all children, they wouldn’t let
inner-city school flounder because of the inequitable use of taxes collected
and distributed to schools based on the affluence of the taxpayers.
Where the fuck is Rick Perry and his small government solutions now?
1 comment:
Next step, the movie "Minority Report" will come true. I never saw the movie but I understand it was about people being arrested pre-emptively because they were thinking about committing a crime.
You're right, you've gotta love these "small government" Big Brother Republicans.
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