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Thursday Morning Coffee/Tea Talk
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    Don't want to leave out all those tea drinkers, right @lesbomom?

    Topic on the coffee table: your school district stalking your child


    Today's article: http://m.cnet.com/news/texas-school-district-to-track-kids-through-rfid-tags/57441651

    Basically a school district in Texas is going to microchip it's students so they can track them at all times!!!! Ahh!


    Question: what do you think of the microchipping idea- will it increase student safety, or is it limiting personal privacy?

    Should their be an opt out program, or not?


    ~O) ~O)

    Thanks to @canadianmama for today's article and topic
  • mommydeliriousmommydelirious
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    Well it appears from the article that the microchips would be in the kids ID cards not in the kid, so I don't have as big of a prob with it as I did originally when I thought they'd be sticking a microchip in a child. If they have that big of a prob with it, I guess this is an option. Im not sure if there shouldn't be an opt out thingi, but what parents wouldn't be ok with their child being monitored DURING SCHOOL HOURS. After school hours is a bit too far perhaps, unless there was some kind of need like abduction or kidnapping, or runways that they could use the technology for.
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  • OpheliaOphelia
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    My first thought when reading this: what the Fuck?!

    Now that I know that it is their id cards, not their person being chipped, I don't find it so bad. I do think parents should be allowed to opt out though.
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  • irishlassirishlass
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    @ophelia I thought the same thing!
    In an id card seems kindof pointless. If a kid wants to play truant they will get a friend to bring the card in to school for them while they go to the park and smoke. I think its a waste of money.
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  • French_momFrench_mom
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    Sitting on my butt, too lazy to go make coffee yet.

    And i had the same reaction as @Ophelia and @irishlass  : WTF ?

    But since it is in their id's  i am all for it. to a certain point. They could monitor ONLY during school hours. But then again, it could be money they could put toward new books, and shool specialists. Yeah, i changed my mind. No chip, put money where it is REALLY needed.

    Geez i guess i need my coffee more then i thought. Need to wake up my brain
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  • shadylaneshadylane
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    i agree with @irishlass, i'm sure there are more important things they could spend all that money on
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  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
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    Good morning. Got my coffee and waiting to see if I get a call that I need to work today or not. I also agree that the money could be spent for something better.
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  • tothemoonandbacktothemoonandback
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    Good morning!  Hellish weather last night.. almost an hour of hail around12am, and then DS2.5 decided he needed to sleep like a newborn and wake up 4!! times between 2 and 4am.  I am chugging coffee, I'd prefer an IV.

    I wouldn't mind it considering it would be on the ID card, but it does seem like a crazy expense when they could just do a better job at keeping track of my kid while he's in their care like they are supposed to.
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  • missmama5missmama5
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    I think that should be the parents choice, and the parents choice only. Just as everything else concerning a childs well-being and body should be their & their guardians choice. Geez Louise. How is this even real?! LOL
    I would totally microchip my kid if I could. But it would only be available to the police search database for emergencies. Think of how many lives it would save....it's not like I could creep him and invade his general privacy. But if he went missing or something happened, they could search the microchip or whatever and find him in a jiffy. Makes sense to me! But still, that should be MY choice, Not his schools.
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  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
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    Sounds like a waste of money. We had student IDs in HS but we never used them for anything so I never carried mine around with me. I also went to a smaller HS than I imagine this high school is. My senior glass had like maybe 300 kids.

    Do they want to use the microchips to track wandering students in the hall? Find class ditchers in town? Or to take attendance during a bomb threat/fire drill/real emergency?
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  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
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    @mammateeroll Yes! This is very cynical, but really how much is done for our children because the collective we want what's best for them versus what's going to line the collective our pockets...
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  • ImWendyImWendy
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    Rfid means the signal is transmitted over radio frequency, and only to the proper receiver. Like the right radio "station." This seems utterly pointless to me. Can't the teachers keep up with where the students are?
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  • ImWendyImWendy
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    The chips would only work at school, where the receiver is.
    deus ex machina
  • CrashCrash
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    I think microchips of any kind are creepy. There are two kids in my daughter's class alone who have been 'chipped' by their parents. (Oddly enough, they both have very unstable home lives).

     Chipping an id card is just pointless.
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  • nonamejustmommy
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    I have to say I am ok with it but I have to add that I am the type of parent that when my kids get older I will be able to track them from their phones and cars.  I want to know if my kid is skipping class and this solves it. I am all for monitoring kids because it is their job to go to school and get an education. Kids don't always make the best decision no matter how you raise them. My parents never knew that I went off campus for lunch before I was allowed too, they never knew that I skipped half my classes my senior year. While I was working after lunch I still got into trouble bc of it but I was 18 and I wanted $ more than school. I think adults forget all the things they tried and think that their kids wont do that bc they did something different than their parents did with them.  I am a realist I know what I did and I expect my kids to do at least as much as I did. 

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