14 DAY TRIAL // Two schools in San Antonio, Texas, have implemented ID cards embedded with RFID chips, to track their students on campus.
As state aid is based on attendance, the ID cards now serve as an objective observer to the students' activities, and help count them. As an added bonus, any student can be located on campus, at any time.
According to NBC News, there has been some vocal opposition to his measure, as some argue the measure makes students feel uneasy and under permanent supervision.
Consumer privacy group CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) argues that, instead of treating the kids “like prisoners in their own schools,” the state is better off investing in means of providing a better education for them.
“Students deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, not forced to wear microchips that track them like cattle. [...] (The district) has spent upward of $500,000 solving a non-problem. Relying on RFID to track and monitor students during the school day shifts the burden of responsibility away from the administrators and teachers,” Katie Deolloz, head of RFID ID card opposition for CASPIAN stated.