*Life With Big Brother.....

Oh, Brother? Texas Schools to track kids with embedded micro-chips*

By Jonathan Anker
updated 1:02 PM EDT, Thu May 31, 2012
CNN

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A Texas school district will scan ID cards to track students' locations
Program aims to boost safety -- and district's bottom line
Mom: 'Privacy is all well and good until you want to know where
your kid is'

Does tracking school children with computer chips make them more safe --
or more vulnerable?

A San Antonio school district has sided with the former, though not
without some debate. The end result is that Northside Independent School
District will begin the 2012 school year by distributing ID cards
enabled with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips throughout
three schools and to 6,290 of its students.

The main idea here is to be able to determine where any given student is
at any time during the school day. That's the main idea. The other part
of this is that it could help the school district net hundreds of
thousands -- if not millions -- of additional dollars. But more on that
in a moment.

The chips will be able to detect when a student boards a school bus and
where in the school they are located, though it won't work outside of
school grounds.

"Parents expect that we always know where their children are, and this
technology will help us do that," said district spokesman Pascual
Gonzalez. "This way we can see if a student is at the nurse's office or
elsewhere on campus." The San Antonio Express-News reports that Gonzalez
also said the only people who can access the tracking data will be
school administrators.

The ACLU, though, has previously voiced strong objections to chipping
students, pointing out that these "insecure" card readers have been
copied "with a handheld device the size of a standard cell phone that
was built using spare parts costing $20." Equipped with one, they argue,
it would be simple for someone to track a student. The group says an
even larger concern is that chips could also be copied, allowing
would-be kidnappers to take a child off campus while the duplicate chip
continues to tell RFID readers that the child is safely at school."

Scary stuff. But a blogger over at Babble thinks these fears are a bit
extreme. "God knows I'm one of the most nervous moms around, but even
I'm not convinced that utilizing high-tech ID cards is going to trigger
a rash of kidnappings," writes Joslyn Gray. "It's not like they're
implanting a chip into the kids' necks, like something out of 'X-Files.'
It's a chip in an ID card, just like those used by businesses."

Gray adds that "privacy is all well and good until you want to know
where your kid is."

So what about those parents whose children will now be part of the
district's pilot program? One mom told the Express-News, "I would hope
teachers can help motivate students to be in their seats instead of the
district having to do this. But I guess this is what happens when you
don't have enough money."

Aah, right -- the money.

Because state funding is partly based on attendance, the school district
also stands to make quite a bit of cash by tracking students. No small
deal in a district which the News-Express reports had to cleave $61
million from their budget last year. According to the paper, "Northside
would get $1.7 million next year from both higher attendance and
Medicaid reimbursements for bussing special education students."

And that's just with implementing the program in three schools. In all,
there are 112 schools in the district.

The program will reportedly cost $525,065 to roll out and then $136,005
annually to support. Officials believe if it's successful, it will pay
for itself in a very short time.

Do you believe the proposed safety and financial benefits outweigh
privacy concerns? With school funds being slashed across the nation, are
these the types of options they need to be exploring? Share your opinion
with us in the comments.

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/29/students-tracked-id-chips-san-antonio-rfid?hpt=hp_bn15
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What a sneaky way of making the chip sound like a good idea and introducing it into schools, monitoring the ever movement of the students and their whereabouts. The next thing they'll say, we have to implant it in their hand or forehead, because the students can easily loose their ID card...! Most likely they'll start implementing this with Obama chip for Medical purposes is introduced next year. Then all the information will be on it, and it will be mandatory.

Oh my!!! Where's TX Gov. Rick Perry... and Pastors John & Matthew Hagee (who ARE San Antonio citizens) on this? For this is NOT good!!!

Surely they, the Hagees, our fellow Believers, highly disapprove of the Mark of the Beast system, must have a say on this disturbing news for their kids, shouldn't they? And furthermore--hasn't John Hagee preached on this in one of his series endtimes sermons...especially about remification consequences of accepting this MotB?

Maranatha!
Tammy