Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID
Julia Scheeres,
Wired News,
Oct 24, 2003
Schools have never been bastions of democracy and individual rights; we have seen over and over again how a students' right to freedom of expression, for example, is quite limited (hence the explusion of a Georgia student for wearing a Pepsi shirt on the school's Coke Day). So it is perhaps not a surprise to see the first major use of RFID tags to track people taking place in a school environment. "The charter school's 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip. As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip's signal and displays their photograph." Perhaps we should spend a little more time thinking about the sort of citizens our schools produce when their students spend their developmental years as the subjects of little dictatorships.
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