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Sounds like some students are stuck between a rock and a hard place. School threatening to discipline students for not using the system and parents telling their children not to use the system.
I wonder how much this cost the taxpayers, and at a time when everyone is worried about federal funding cuts.
I can understand this system for prisoners, but children?
Our entire school system needs a face lift. Locally, a 15 year old built a medieval style weapon in shop class and took it home. When his father found it, he questioned his son, finding out that it was built in school. The father contacted the school, wondering where the teacher was during this, because this was obviously a weapon that took some time to build and couldn't be put together in a few minutes.
The school set up a meeting with the upper brass and the father. The outcome was the child being suspended for the remainder of the school year. Keep in mind that the father could've disciplined his son at home and never contacted the school, avoiding the suspension. He felt that the school needed to keep a better watch on the students because they were obviously unattended for long periods of time. The shop teacher still has a job and his son is kicked out - go figure.
I wonder how much this cost the taxpayers, and at a time when everyone is worried about federal funding cuts.
I can understand this system for prisoners, but children?
Our entire school system needs a face lift. Locally, a 15 year old built a medieval style weapon in shop class and took it home. When his father found it, he questioned his son, finding out that it was built in school. The father contacted the school, wondering where the teacher was during this, because this was obviously a weapon that took some time to build and couldn't be put together in a few minutes.
The school set up a meeting with the upper brass and the father. The outcome was the child being suspended for the remainder of the school year. Keep in mind that the father could've disciplined his son at home and never contacted the school, avoiding the suspension. He felt that the school needed to keep a better watch on the students because they were obviously unattended for long periods of time. The shop teacher still has a job and his son is kicked out - go figure.
I really do feel sorry for today's kids and parents in our "Politically Correct" schools. Simple matters that parents use to handle are now "handled" by "touchy feely" bureaucrats. Plus they seem to spend more time teaching "touchy feely" cr*p in school nowadays rather than useful knowledge.
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In todays world its a great thing. We can't seem to punish the bad guys hard enough so as to make them afraid to comit chrimes and liberal judges release 'em anyway. I support it.
Neither of these comments are relevant to the original post. Whimsey, there's nothing "touchy feely" about tracking kids' movements with RFID tags.
Al, neither "bad guys" nor "liberal judges" made an appearance in the story.
You guys see a liberal conspiracy in everything.
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It's weird to see kids with RF tags. They're innocent, not guilty of anything.
If the guilty wore tags, such as pedophiles, etc, we would understand due to their predisposition to such awful crimes.
One is innocent, one is guilty. I see it as plaguing the innocent with a "solution" when there isn't a need for one. Just more social engineering brought to us from the left's mindset without the parent's thumbs-up to being with. Do you think they'd get the parent's permission to do this to begin with? Of course not! Geez.
If the guilty wore tags, such as pedophiles, etc, we would understand due to their predisposition to such awful crimes.
One is innocent, one is guilty. I see it as plaguing the innocent with a "solution" when there isn't a need for one. Just more social engineering brought to us from the left's mindset without the parent's thumbs-up to being with. Do you think they'd get the parent's permission to do this to begin with? Of course not! Geez.
Why has liberal become such a bad word around here anyway? Considering many of us are very liberal when it comes to our vehicles, it is surprising how many of us aren't when it comes to life.
Hmmm, isn't the ACLU "liberal" and "left"? Why are they against this? Hmmm, must be a conservative thing that the conservatives here don't understand or don't want to admit to.
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Silly father. He should know that no noble or good deed goes unpunished.
Although I'm unsure of the peripheral implications of such actions "down the road" and what they may evolve to if adopted and eventually accepted as commonplace, you've got to admit that our previous social evolutions have basically hobbled our schools at maintaining any discapline and control over children.
Now we reject their "coping" mechanisms
My view, aside from unforeseen side effects, would be "Their house ..their rules". I want my kid in his/her classroom when they're supposed to be. If they're not ...I want the school to know where they are and assure that they get where they're supposed to be. Does it matter if it's a RF tag ..or 3 more behavior managers/monitors routinely searching for missing students??
Gary, I agree with you to a point. But at what point does this system become a babysitter in itself and begin to take the place of human interaction?
If a mother where to leave her children unattended at home for hours on end, but have some sort of tracking system so she would know their every move, would she be guilty of neglect? I would like to think the answer is YES. Would it be different in school? The example I gave earlier shows that students are already being left to their own devices too often.
If a mother where to leave her children unattended at home for hours on end, but have some sort of tracking system so she would know their every move, would she be guilty of neglect? I would like to think the answer is YES. Would it be different in school? The example I gave earlier shows that students are already being left to their own devices too often.
I think you are equating this action to neglecting the children in other areas which isn't necessarily true. They are enhansing their acountability probably due to liability issues.
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