Gil223
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I just read this article on WND ( http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/wear-radio-chip-or-leave-school-tells-students/ ), the main thrust of which is:
The school district's rationale is that "the two schools have a high rate of truancy, and the district could gain $2 million in state funding by improving attendance." I see it as an attack on the student's Fourth Amendment rights.
Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radio chip that will enable officials to track their every move – or face expulsion.
At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.
Students refusing the chips were reportedly threatened with suspension, fines, or being involuntary transferred. Unlike chips used by retailers to track inventory which activate when scanned by a reader, these chips contain batteries and actively broadcast a continuous signal.
On October 1, the schools went live with a program to use the chips to track the exact locations of students using the badges. The badges would even be able to tell if a student in a classroom is in his seat or somewhere else in the room.
The school district's rationale is that "the two schools have a high rate of truancy, and the district could gain $2 million in state funding by improving attendance." I see it as an attack on the student's Fourth Amendment rights.
There is no distinguishable difference between the district's actions, and the plans to allow LE to use decommissioned military drones to spy on the general population. It appears to be just another attempt at desensitization to intrusions into our Constitutionally guaranteed rights, by intimidating our young into compliance with unlawful actions by government agencies. Thus far, only one child has taken a stand against being chipped. Any attempt to subvert the intent of the Constitution, is a threat to the entire document. But, that's just the way I see it. Pax..."The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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