Agree to abstinence education and your kid will be tracked by the govt.

[Fridays Child]

At my daughter's school, parents who sign the permission slips for their children to attend a week-long abstinence education program are also permitting the state to track them in a database. Not that I would ever agree to allow my daughter to attend but, when I read that the state would be documenting subsequent childbirths of the participants, I was outraged.

Now, comes this article and the recent CNBC program on data mining. It seems that, no matter what we do, our government is determined to know everything there is to know about each and every one of us. NSA wiretapping is only the tip of the tip of the privacy violations iceberg.

:mad: :nuke:

[Flabbergasted]

1. Not to play devils advocate but this would be interesting to find out

what they discover? Any predictions?

[Fridays Child]

3. I guess it would be like a longitudinal study.

These kids are sixth graders. The female participants are just entering their childbearing years, and that period of their lives could last forty years or more.

[waiting for hope]

2. If they want to track

whether or not their dumb ass programs work - why don't they just do what they always do - steal from a Democrat: http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/features/politics_and_science/example_abstinence.htm

Right back at you with the :mad: ....it just makes me sick.

[NoSheep]

4. "No child left behind" is already tracking them for harassment by

military recruiters. That was the whole point of THAT little exercise in freedom.
Fascists. :mad:

[Fridays Child]

6. Meanwhile, B*sh cuts the NCLB funding for afterschool programs.

Evil incarnate.

[noamnety]

5. those silver ring things

they may as well forget the training part; just stick a gps in the damn things and surgically attach them to our uteruses. If they're so determined to track our asses, they should just go ahead and get it over with.