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Originally posted by semperkill
Im so pissed right now. Just looked at the school schedule that was given out on Friday May 5th. One thing stood out. County school fingerprinting schedule. They scheduled 2 days One on May 2nd and the other on May 17th. I asked my son if he was fingerprinted he is 5 and didnt really understand. I then asked him if he ever had ink put on his fingers. He said no but on wednsday he had to make a butterfly on a blank piece of paper with his hands. He said that the teacher asked him what his name and birthday was. He asked her why she wants to know its already written on the bottom of the paper. I asked him to show me this paper since on fridays he always bring everything home. I mean everything. Not much "artwork" is going on.
To me this is akin to when the kids have tours of police station and the officer "shows them" how they fingerprint.
My daughter "she is older" told me that the teacher said all the older kids were to be fingerprinted later in the month. WTF! Is anyone is going this. Is this a normal school activity?
Originally posted by Romekje
From now on i'm just gonna copy/paste the same response to any of these kind of threads...
THE USA IS COLLECTIVELY GOING NUTS!!!
Originally posted by apoc36
This is actually nothing new. I remember when I was in second grade. I was fingerprinted in my school, they actually made it fun, lol with the cops talking to the students. All my classmates were fingerprinted and this was 28 years ago and I live in a small hick town in West Virginia.
They do this so they can have everyone's fingerprints on file. It makes it easier for them later in years to catch a criminal if they already have the persons prints on file.
I actually think its a good idea for them to do this. If your kid is going to become a criminal later in life then they already have his / her greedy little fingerprints.
Originally posted by MindFever
You guys just hate government right?
Originally posted by Biigs
If the prints are being recorded, just for general data banks to hold?
All persons entering the sates have all ten fingers scanned so it does not surprise me to find out that on top of your photo for ID being taken, the gov wants prints, weight, tattoos or any anything else from their own citizens.
If it does in fact reduce crime or terrorism its really very hard to complain about it, from a personnel privacy stand point.
Originally posted by ColoradoJens
Originally posted by apoc36
This is actually nothing new. I remember when I was in second grade. I was fingerprinted in my school, they actually made it fun, lol with the cops talking to the students. All my classmates were fingerprinted and this was 28 years ago and I live in a small hick town in West Virginia.
They do this so they can have everyone's fingerprints on file. It makes it easier for them later in years to catch a criminal if they already have the persons prints on file.
I actually think its a good idea for them to do this. If your kid is going to become a criminal later in life then they already have his / her greedy little fingerprints.
You have no clue of the 4th amendment. Why not just put everyone in a prison camp from age 5 on? Crime would go down, eh?
CJ