do you know where your student is?

Learn the technology. It doesn't tell anyone anything. It has no GPS.

It' the reading equipment that reports when an RFId passes close to it. The best the school could do at locating a student is to see what doors the RFID tag had passed through last.

My job has RFID readers on external doors so they know when I'm in the office and when I'm not.

I keep my ID with my when I leave. It does not report anything about my location to anyone at any time. It's not a GPS enabled cell phone that transmits it's location.

Anyone comparing RFIDs to some sort of "mark of the beast" is living an a paranoid fantasy.

I certainly hope that anyone wanting to avoid "the mark" never checks out a book from the library or has a credit card that you don't have to swipe through a reader. Oh, and remove all security tags from items when you take them from the store, or they might report back to the big nasty evil one where you live.

jf1acai wrote: Is it OK for schools to force juveniles to be tracked all the time, with or without their parents' permission?

It's the school's responsibility to know exactly where the students are at all times. If they lost one, do you think any parent is going to say "Thank God, at least they didn't have to wear that ID?"

With modern kids, they shouldn't use a RFID chip, instead have the kid's phones registered so they can easily find them.

Heisenberg wrote:

Big Doug wrote: Another sign of the apocalypse

But were they allowed to play dodgeball, right?

Actually no, because you could bruise or mentally injure a poor little entitled snowflake.

I would bet that you were the biggest wimp on the playground..Lil skinny curly haired kid named Melvin.

Nobody that matters wrote: Anyone comparing RFIDs to some sort of "mark of the beast" is living an a paranoid fantasy.

Republicans live in one..The world is a very scary place for them.

jf1acai wrote: Is it OK for schools to force juveniles to be tracked all the time, with or without their parents' permission?

Public schooling is not mandatory Jfecal

You can keep em home, send them to a survivalist boot camp or do whatever you want with them.

Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Schools

I think this makes a number of good points about the use of this technology, whether it currently has GPS capability or not.