Schoolboys force to carry RFID

Two schools in San Antonio (Texas) have introduced the program of tracing of pupils through radio labels Student Locator under name (RFID). The administration of schools is happy: it was possible to raise considerably attendance of employment, and after all this parametre is traced at level of the Ministry of Education, and financing of each school directly depends on it. Moreover, it is direct for this experiment formation department pays to schools of $30 in day for each pupil, the local press informs. Parents are happier: now they always know, in how many the child has come to school and when it left it. Each pupil should carry on a neck or other foreground a plastic card (certificate) with a radio label. It automatically is registered on an input in a building, and also at visiting of library and in some other places.



Recently the school administration has declared that voting for school "king" and "queen" (the tradition of graduation parties in the USA) will be accessible only by means of RFID-cards. However, not all parents are happy with an innovation. There were active workers who have organised the protest against «illegal shadowing children», they have invited television and have achieved publications in a press. Now scandal left on national level. On site Reddit users are indignant: they say that such programs of shadowing need to be tested at first on politicians. And only after couple of years of successful tests if there will be no objections, it is possible to extend to children. The site of local department of formation of San Antonio with the description of program Student Locator does not rise a week because of DDoS-attack: the copy in cache Google, see also a copy of page FAQ about program Student Locator.