U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students

[NightWatcher]

http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html

(NaturalNews) A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.

The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.

Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus's current location as provided by the GPS device.

I guess taking roll is too difficult to keep track of a whopping 80 kids. This is a "pilot program". If it works for Rhode Island, it might be coming to your town.

[NMDemDist2]

1. at least it's in the bookbags and not the kids!! good grief!

:banghead:

[notesdev]

4. It's only...

... a matter of time.

Makes you wonder what is really going on in these schools that the administration feels the need to construct a police state. I would wager that the faculty and administrators are not going to have their movements tracked by RFID tags.

[XemaSab]

2. Adults have civil liberties; kids don't.

The solution: get fingerprints, DNA, and microchips when they're young. :eyes:

[notesdev]

5. one unintended consequence is forseeable

"Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus's current location as provided by the GPS device."

What's to prevent a child molestor from doing the same?

[skepticscott]

7. Or

a non-custodial parent?

[AlphaCentauri]

15. This kids will be so used to microchips that they will not complain about civil liberties

[MrCoffee]

3. They're going to track them on the bus?

[rwheeler31]

6. Kids and book bags are terrifying.

[baldguy]

8. And what do you think the first thing that a concerned student will do?

or

[benld74]

9. Resistance if Futile! You will be assimilated!

The day I RFID my kid for a school will be my last day on earth for it will be done at gun point and I will still refuse!

[wtmusic]

10. Chips not "implants" but tags; parents could opt out

Natural News left out the non-hysterical part. :eyes:

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=51555

[The2ndWheel]

13. Seems like something you should have to opt into

The default setting shouldn't be tagging/chipping/implanting.

[Swamp Rat]

11. I bet this will be exploited in many nefarious ways, leaving children more vulnerable than before.

... beginning with professional truants, then child abductors...

[ulysses]

12. the civil libertarian in me balks. then again,

we haven't heard from those who will be quick to blame the school if a child goes missing.

[yurbud]

14. I wonder if parents would reconsider if they had info on cancer & cell phones

EMF aint too good for you.

They ban kids from using cells in Europe.