Skipping Class? Sensors Are Watching

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Yikes. This is creepy. You must carry your ID card with you at all times, or else.

Skipping Class? Sensors Are Watching

Skipping Class? Sensors Are Watching
By Andrea Fuller

Students at Northern Arizona University who hope to skip large lecture courses may have more trouble doing so this fall: The university is installing an electronic system that measures student attendance.

The university is using $75,000 in federal stimulus money to install the system, which will detect the ID cards students are carrying as they enter large classrooms, The Arizona Republic reported on Tuesday. (The cards can be read by an electronic sensor.) Faculty members can choose to receive electronic attendance reports.

That brought this comment:

3. geochaucer - April 27, 2010 at 05:25 pm

In light of last week's vote by its legislature, I think the Arizona schools should go a step further and require passports and birth certificates to enter classrooms. Thank heavens for the Arizona legislature; whenever I think my state's is a dumb as rocks, Arizona consolingly outflanks it.

[Fumesucker]

1. Just have another student carry your ID card..

That will take them even less time to figure out than it took me, somewhat under five seconds.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Of course, admin will figure it out, too,

when the sensors show 72 people in the lecture hall, but only 12 seats are occupied.

[seabeyond]

2. and when people yell the schools do not do enough.... remember they implement more and more

to try to make happen what cannot be done by a school.

i tell my kids, there is no room for mistake, there is no room for doing wrong, the schools have them covered at every turn. unlike my day when i would skip school, take a two our drive to avila beach and then drive home with a tan or sunburn.

[RandomThoughts]

3. Immigration is just the excuse for that other law also

It is about setting up a police state.

Some people think the only way they can compete with China is to be totalitarian. And they like the fuedal system.

[jdlh8894]

4. Guess I'm getting old

When did universities start checking attendance?

[Lochloosa]

5. I know. It's weird.

[jdlh8894]

6. Skipping class was a "right of passage" n/t

[Blue-Jay]

7. I remember a class that I only showed up for twice.

Midterm and final. Earned an A.

[seabeyond]

11. i am not a group person. i had a class i showed up for tests....

i couldnt make it into regular class, ever. i did well on the tests, but felt so guilty i did not finish up the class. i later ran into the teacher and he asked what happened. i told him, i cant sit in a class of people, so i felt bad and dropped. he told me

you were doing great on the tests, should have taken last test, would have passed with credits. the first teacher ever to be so laid back, allowing a pass because of scores and ego not dented because i didnt attend class. was an eye opener

most teachers got pissy

i didnt need to go to class to get a b or above on my tests. most teachers cant handle that.

[LeftyMom]

8. Just put things you mention in the lecture that aren't in the textbook on tests.

That gets people to show up.

[jdlh8894]

9. Shoot,half the time

the professors didn't show up!

[tallahasseedem]

10. This is bullshit...

There were times that I would need to skip class for various reasons, none that were any of my professors business. I paid the tuition, the professors are paid no matter what, my business...screw off.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. What it is, is a secret military-funderd project testing remote sensors.

When the national ID card comes out, each will have this chip implanted, and all the government has to do to locate anyone is to flip a switch and get a sequential download of every sensor that ID card has passed. Every time you walk past a government building, a US Mail box (you know, the big blue ones every few blocks), traffic light, you name it, there could be a sensor installed in it.

The next step after that, of course, is implanting the chip in the person rather than in something that person carries. That way they KNOW.

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[WI_DEM]

14. The poor "kids" may actually have to attend class rather than sneak out and go

back home to get more sleep recovering from their hangover the night before.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Meanwhile, there's the trend toward coursecasting lectures.

Many profs say they don't care if their students show up in person or listen on their mp3 players later.