Tracking Students With Microchips

By Gregory Mone Posted 10.22.2007 at 1:29 pm 6 Comments

Uniform As if the ugly uniforms weren't enough, now a private school is considering using RFID chips to track its students, too. At a school in South Yorkshire, UK, officials are testing a new system that tracks whether students are in a given classroom or not, and can also cut off access to certain areas of the school.

The radio-frequency identification tags tell the students' teachers whether or not they're in the building, and call up other critical data, such as photos and behavioral records, in the event that the teacher forgets who he or she is dealing with. Ten kids have been wearing the chips for eight months. And you have to wonder if any of them have been asked to read 1984 yet.—Gregory Mone

Via Times Online

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GLEN (imported)
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 10/22/07 at 6:35 pm

MARK OF THE BEAST!! GOOGLE "VERICHIP" OR APPLIED DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, THEn CROSS REFERENCE WITH IBM DURING WW2(JEWISH ARM TATOOS)

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ryan (imported)
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 10/22/07 at 7:57 pm

ok thats goin too far dude

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Kaitlyn (imported)
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 10/22/07 at 10:21 pm

Glen-you are right this is a bit to far,and weird . . i sure am glad my (private) school isn't doing this then who ever would be "tracking" me would see how very weird i can be lol. :c ),

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mike (imported)
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 10/22/07 at 11:05 pm

Kaitlynn private schools may fall to the microchip one day too. Home schoolers like myself will never fall to the chip unless the parents of the family orders us kids to get them. Even then I would have to see some benefit to it all.

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Benmark (imported)
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 10/23/07 at 4:43 am

That's not such a bad idea. Keep tabs on those little troublemakers.

Jokes aside, that can actually be really helpful in the case of emergencies and whatnot.

Guys, quit freaking out.

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Jay (imported)
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 10/23/07 at 6:49 pm

The students were WEARING them? Well if I were a student at this school, I'd just take it off, set it in a crowded gym or classroom, and then off I go. If they found it, I'd say I lost it.

If this were really to work, they'd have to do an internal implant.

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