Monday, August 30, 2010
ToDaZeD Creeping Incrementalism
*beep*beep*beep* Out Of Bounds!!
The Contra Costa County [CA] School District has put RFID tags into basketball jerseys which the students [preschoolers] will wear while at school. The bulk of the [$50,000] grant went towards setting up sensors around the school to read the tags and computer systems to actually monitor where each student is.
Justification for spending on this system while kidz are being required to bring their own paper, pencils, Purell and TP?
The point is to make it easier to make sure all students are accounted for. ... while the idea of attaching tracking devices to kids seems a little odd, the usage and reasoning seem sound.
Has there been a spate of lost preschoolers from classrooms that I’ve missed? How have teachers kept track of tots without these RFID tags since Time began? Did they actually learn the names of the kidz and watch them?!? That’s hard.
When I was young, we had 1 [one] teacher/tot-wrangler per 36-40 kidz: now they have 3-4 ‘teachers’ aides” per teacher/classroom and class sizes of under 20. And the kidz are coming out dumber—but that’s not important now....
Here’s what got me about this fella’s premise; and the likely reaction of most folks:
Part of why I’m not going to freak out about this is because it in no way encroaches on anyone’s reasonable expectation of privacy. ... your location at a public school isn’t exactly private information. And again, this facilitates grownups to watch kids and make sure they’re not doing dangerous things with scissors.
How a locator dot on a screen manages to carry information about running with scissors eludes me. [Are scissors still allowed on school property these daze?]
What it does do is communicate the idea to kidz early on—when it will take root solidly [*]—that The Collective has a right to know his whereabouts at all times. “For his saaaafety.”
And there’s no “camel’s nose” potential here? Right?
oh… first comment:
Problem is they’re not tracking kids, they’re tracking jerseys. Kids take clothes off. Ask a parent.
hm… Wonder what “solutions” might come up, now we’ve blown past the original premise? What’s the problem?!? I mean, it’s, like, legal and everything, right?
Not even gonna go into the fact that all the jerseys also have numbers on ‘em.
Hey—what a great way to keep track of all us stupid old people, too. [Hey—conservatives are all old, right?] Might wander out into traffic, yanno? And all us dumbass, redneck ruralites, right? Can’t have us those people wandering around loose—they might break into an enlightened urban area and distress the delicate seeensitive latte-sippers with their muddy, shit-encrusted boots, work-roughened hands and barnyard raaaacist attitudes. No good.
*"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man”
-- Francis Xavier
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