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Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
"We're all for keeping kids in school, and we applaud any efforts to make that happen," Burke said. "But the privacy issue: What happens with the bracelet or anklet after school is out? Is that appropriate for the school or courts to know where and what this person is doing outside of school?"
Originally posted by NuclearPaul
Is this just conditioning us into thinking that GPS tracking our children is a good idea. They will grow up thinking this is normal, and obviously it will be even worse for their own kids.
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Originally posted by logician magician
The ones who don't want any part of it, or society.. you know, the ones who will end up in gangs, on welfare, robbing liqueur stores, mugging people, holding up people at ATMS... they just get anklets.
Originally posted by gnosis111
Shouldn't this be something the parents have to agree to? Same as with the drug testing in certain schools. It should always be the parents choice. But if it is mandatory and if you don't comply you have to go to school elsewhere, only then will I see it as a way to ease us into being tracked. I don't agree with it at all though.
Originally posted by NuclearPaul
Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets
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Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
"We're all for keeping kids in school, and we applaud any efforts to make that happen," Burke said. "But the privacy issue: What happens with the bracelet or anklet after school is out? Is that appropriate for the school or courts to know where and what this person is doing outside of school?"
Originally posted by dunwichwitch
Originally posted by gnosis111
Shouldn't this be something the parents have to agree to? Same as with the drug testing in certain schools. It should always be the parents choice. But if it is mandatory and if you don't comply you have to go to school elsewhere, only then will I see it as a way to ease us into being tracked. I don't agree with it at all though.
It should, but it never has been. They arrest parents if their children skip school enough, remember?
Parents don't decide the curriculum. Parents don't decide which teachers are good teachers and which teachers are bad. Parents don't decide anything... and the PTA? That's a pile of bull#. My mother was on the PTA for less than a year, and she saw that real opinions were not being listened to. It was like favoritism... whichever parents were the most affluent, seemed to get the most feedback.
Originally posted by ccgg77
I think it's a brilliant idea! If these kids haven't shown responsibility on their own, then the GPS should make them do it. They're going to have to learn one way or the other.
Originally posted by Dan Tanna
Then they came for the criminals, and you didn't speak up.