Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would anyone object to this?
A RFID (Radio Frequency ID) chip is put in a badge and pinned on school children so that they can be tracked on school grounds. Since when do children have any expectation of privacy as to their location while on school grounds?
Can anyone explain to me why this is a bad thing and parents would object to it?
I'm completely mystified. It actually seems like a very good use of the technology to me and I would think parents would welcome it. The logical extension would be to allow parents to login to a Web site to verify their children's location during school hours.
This brings to mind an article in today's USA Today about how the me generation (kids born in the 80s and 90s) expect to receive praise for the littlest thing ("oh.. don't worry if you can't spell, at least you wrote something.."). Ridiculous.
This seems like an extension of this permissive attitude to me (coming from the same idiot parents who want little Timmy to get a medal for finishing 9th in the school track meet.
Posted by artandscience at February 18, 2005 06:50 AM