Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
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[QUOTE][B]2:30 p.m. PST UPDATE[/B]: [B][I]A local Texas judge on Wednesday [URL="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/victory_court_grants_rutherford_institute_request_to_stop_texas_school_from"]tentatively blocked the suspension[/URL], pending further hearings next week[/I].A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip.[/B]
Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the fall. The ID badge has a bar code associated with a student’s Social Security number, and the RFID chip monitors pupils’ movements on campus, from when they arrive until when they leave.
Radio-frequency identification devices are a daily part of the electronic age — found in passports, and library and payment cards. Eventually they’re expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. Now schools across the nation are slowly adopting them as well.
The suspended student, sophomore Andrea Hernandez, was notified by the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio that she won’t be able to continue attending John Jay High School unless she wears the badge around her neck, which she has been refusing to do. The district said the girl, who objects on privacy and religious grounds, beginning Monday would have to attend another high school in the district that does not yet employ the RFID tags.
The Rutherford Institute said it would go to court and try to nullify the district’s decision. The institute said that the district’s stated purpose for the program — to enhance their coffers — is “[URL="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/texas_school_kicks_student_out_of_magnet_program_for_refusing_to_wear_smart"]fundamentally disturbing[/URL].”
“There is something fundamentally disturbing about this school district’s insistence on steamrolling students into complying with programs that have nothing whatsoever to do with academic priorities and everything to do with fattening school coffers,” said John Whitehead, the institute’s president.
[B]Like most state-financed schools, the district’s budget is tied to average daily attendance. If a student is not in his seat during morning roll call, the district doesn’t receive daily funding for that pupil because the school has no way of knowing for sure if the student is there.
[/B]But with the RFID tracking, students not at their desk but tracked on campus are counted as being in school that day, and the district receives its daily allotment for that student.
Tagging school children with RFID chips is uncommon, but not new. A federally funded preschool in Richmond, California, began embedding RFID chips in students’ clothing in 2010. And an elementary school outside of Sacramento, California, scrubbed a plan in 2005 [URL="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2005/02/66554"]amid a parental uproar[/URL]. And a Houston, Texas, school district began using the chips to monitor students on 13 campuses in 2004 for the same reasons the Northside Independent School District implemented the program. Northside is mulling adopting the program for its other 110 schools.
[B]The Hernandez family, which is Christian, told [URL="http://www.infowars.com/student-expelled-for-refusing-location-tracking-rfid-badge/"]InfoWars[/URL] that the sophomore is declining to wear the badge because it signifies Satan, or the [URL="http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/BQA/k/79/Is-Mark-of-Beast-an-Implanted-Microchip-Revelation-1316-18.htm"]Mark of the Beast[/URL] warning in Revelations 13: 16-18.[/B]
The district, in a letter last week to the family, said it would allow her to continue attending the magnet school with “the battery and chip removed.” But the girl’s father, Steve Hernandez, said the district told him that the offer came on the condition that he must “agree to stop criticizing the program and publicly support it,” [URL="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/wear-radio-chip-or-leave-school-tells-students/"]a proposition the father told WND Education[/URL] that he could not stomach.
The district was not immediately available to comment.[/QUOTE]
Wired: [URL]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/student-suspension/[/URL]
So many conflicting views on this.
If it's only on school property, technically I suppose it's within the school's "rights" but it's still a massive breach of privacy and it could allow for more invasive tracking later.
[quote]The Hernandez family, which is Christian, told InfoWars that the sophomore is declining to wear the badge because it signifies Satan, or the Mark of the Beast warning in Revelations 13: 16-18.[/quote]
He's doing this for all the wrong reasons lmao
Hell I wouldn't wear it
[QUOTE]The Hernandez family, which is Christian, told InfoWars that the sophomore is declining to wear the badge because it signifies Satan, or the Mark of the Beast warning in Revelations 13: 16-18.[/QUOTE]
For real..
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38566285]He's doing this for all the wrong reasons lmao[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;lSjpphmb094]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjpphmb094&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Don't mind Info Wars' annoying voice, hit around 1:05ish
How much does it actually track you? If it is just within the school then I don't really have a problem with it.
Wasn't the Mark of the Beast on your forehead though? This is just a lanyard. I don't think the Bibble said anything about those.
lanyards were created by the liberal media and homosexuals to demonize Christianity and destroy family values.
I work in a company that specialises with RFID and it pains me to hear people thinking that RFID can detect people throughout entire buildings. The maximum range on a passive RFID chip is about 1 foot.
They probably have door readers which would detect when the chip passes through a doorway. So in effect the school still has no idea if the student is at their desk or not, just what doorway they passed through last.
But I still find it a strange concept to force people to use RFID.
[QUOTE=Rombishead;38566368]I work in a company that specialises with RFID and it pains me to hear people thinking that RFID can detect people throughout entire buildings. [B]The maximum range on a passive RFID chip is about 1 foot. [/B]
They probably have door readers which would detect when the chip passes through a doorway. So in effect the school still has no idea if the student is at their desk or not, just what doorway they passed through last.
But I still find it a strange concept to force people to use RFID.[/QUOTE]
George Orwell and Ayn Rand are rolling in their graves!
You're clearly helping the state take away our rights!!!
[QUOTE=Rombishead;38566368]I work in a company that specialises with RFID and it pains me to hear people thinking that RFID can detect people throughout entire buildings. The maximum range on a passive RFID chip is about 1 foot.
They probably have door readers which would detect when the chip passes through a doorway. So in effect the school still has no idea if the student is at their desk or not, just what doorway they passed through last.
But I still find it a strange concept to force people to use RFID.[/QUOTE]
The article mentions a battery so I guess it isn't passive, the range on active RFID still isn't huge though.
[quote]Like most state-financed schools, the district’s budget is tied to average daily attendance. If a student is not in his seat during morning roll call, the district doesn’t receive daily funding for that pupil because the school has no way of knowing for sure if the student is there.[/quote]
Get a good pal hold on your RFID for a day. Skipping a day of school was never easier.
I would put it on a bus over the border, freak everyone out
I wouldn't wear it on principle. If school was worth a shit of my time they wouldn't be worried about me skipping in the first place.
Active RFID has a range from 1-2 meters. That's 3-6 feet, that's not far at all.
shocked only 1 student refused...i sure as fuck wouldnt be wearing that shit either....strange how many people just ly down and conform
[QUOTE=Wootmang;38566997]shocked only 1 student refused...i sure as fuck wouldnt be wearing that shit either....strange how many people just ly down and conform[/QUOTE]
fight the power brother
RFID is a pretty shitty way of determining attendance if you ask me.
It's simple, block the fucking RFID signal and they can't do shit to you.
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Really all you have to do is unsheath it and let it activate when you walk in, then put it back and block all signal until you're about to leave, and just let it activate again. You've confirmed "attendance" but they can't track your movement within the school.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;38567089]they can't track your movement within the school.[/QUOTE]
It probably only tracks the classroom doors you enter and exit, depending on how it's set up.
[QUOTE=Wootmang;38566997]shocked only 1 student refused...i sure as fuck wouldnt be wearing that shit either....strange how many people just ly down and conform[/QUOTE]
row row fight the powa
Wrap it in Tinfoil, problem solved.
I wouldn't wear that shit.
Schools are responsible for education, not tracking everyone. If they got too many kids skipping school, thats the families' problem.
[QUOTE=Wootmang;38566997]shocked only 1 student refused...i sure as fuck wouldnt be wearing that shit either....strange how many people just ly down and conform[/QUOTE]fuck the illuminati yeah yeah
[QUOTE=squids_eye;38566323]How much does it actually track you? If it is just within the school then I don't really have a problem with it.[/QUOTE]
The tracking part is difficult. You'd need doorways lines with sensors that detect the RFID chips, and then log that movement to a computer. I doubt any school has gotten that far into student tracking, though I'm sure businesses, specifically those related to classified stuff like defence have.
I honestly have no problem with these. People have no issue using clocking machines and clocking in and out with a tag so what difference does it make now it's round your neck?
[QUOTE=zombojoe;38567195]I wouldn't wear that shit.
Schools are responsible for education, not tracking everyone. If they got too many kids skipping school, thats the families' problem.[/QUOTE]
Well, actually, seeing as a school obtains funding based on the attendance of students. It is well within the authority of the school administration to keep an eye on that kind of thing. I've been analysing, and creating recommendations for my university attendance system for a piece of coursework (the university administration themselves agreed to us doing it as they are looking at it too).
We've had a few people from the uni talk to us about the system. Obviously the student union was heavily against it, as was I at first. But after having the administration explain why they use it, I'm all for it. And in fact am recommending some form of card scanning/ RFID (at a push) system in my coursework. Attendance monitoring can help the school find students who are having problems before they become too severe to work out. A student missed a few days of school with no reason? Might be worth looking in to just in case it's personal or family issues. Students skipping a class in large groups? Might be worth seeing if that class is actually causing problems (teacher, work load, etc.).
Attendance monitoring isn't some 1984 Orwellian bullshit. It does have purpose, and it isn't just to track the location of students. Schools will have no interest in that kind of information. As long as you are turning up for classes and getting the results you need, they don't give a shit where you are in the school.
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