Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can't Vote For Homeco, page 3


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reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 04:53 AM by RealSpoke
reply to post by badgerprints



A police state is a progressive agenda? Last time I checked the dept. of homeland security was created by Bush....


reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 06:01 AM by detachedindividual
Having been a truant myself for the final year or so of my education, I can say that this will simply not work for the majority of kids.

Sure, it might scare a minority of kids back into class, the ones who jump at their own shadow, but they are a very small minority. The rest just won't care.

The only way to deal with truancy is to find out why each kid doesn't want to be there, and then fix it!

The biggest problem we have is that every kid is taught the same, every kid is treated the same, like little robots on a production line.

Some kids hate physical education, and just removing them from that class and replacing it with something they actually have an interest in would end their truancy. But the adults know best, apparently. They would rather screw up a kids entire education than admit that kids are unique.

My reason for missing school was phys ed, because I just couldn't do it. I was never overweight or anything, I just couldn't do it. All my life I had unexplained health problems that were just disregarded, and then a couple of years ago I collapsed and had a seizure, and they found a genetic heart problem which explained all of those medical problems I've always had. As it turns out, being pushed in phys ed like that could actually have killed me.

If my needs had been met, and they'd replaced that lesson with something I could do, and had an interest in, I wouldn't have missed a day of school.

Doesn't really matter so much, education is great but I've done just fine with poor results. I now run my own business from home, I've written a published novel, I've exhibited and sold my art and I've been involved in numerous things that plenty of my past fellow students would never achieve.

Let kids be kids, try to fix their problems, but let them be unique and don't dictate to them what they MUST do to satisfy some old person behind a state funded desk.

Monitoring them in this way is treating them like cattle, like a commodity to be bought and sold. I find it sickening that they are even considering this. The cost of this is far more expensive than paying a councilor to find out their reasons for being truant. That's why I fully believe that there is some sweet deal going on between those making the decision and those with a vested interest in selling this product.

Follow the money, and you'll probably find a business deal where someone in local government is making a few hundred thousand $'s.


reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 06:39 AM by itsallmaya
Originally posted by timmhaines
reply to
post by ninjas4321



I like the California method, they hold the parents accountable. If your child doesn't make it to school, and misses class several times your directly affected legally.



What about the low income, one parent homes where the mother has to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet?

With what you are saying, then you will have more high school drop out rates because the parent can't afford the fines.



reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 07:46 AM by newcovenant
reply to post by ninjas4321



Texas has always been visionary and is responsible for the oil boom and countless millionaires in the oil business this century. I am not saying it's a conservative or a Republican State but I think it is.

This figures - I would not expect anything less.

When the GOP has unfettered control these are the kinds of things they suggest and the direction they are moving the country. Some states are already instituting the NATIONAL ID CARD thanks to GOP feigning voter fraud to justify them. Soon we will all be chipped or have a computer bar-code on our arm..

These type things will help industry keep track of their employees!

Isn't that clever?

A welcome innovation, brought to you by...... THE JOB CREATORS !!

Thank a republican.
edit on 10-10-2012 by newcovenant because: (no reason given)



reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 07:57 AM by marg6043
reply to post by ninjas4321



So now the Innovative Texas is tracking children like they do in our Nation with convicted felons on probation.

Yes, I am sure that as a parent I would love to have my child been persecuted like a criminal.

I wonder what kind of parent will allow this attack on the youth in our nation come forward.

Schools are public places support by tax dollars.

They can take their IDs and put them where the sun doesn't shine.


reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 08:00 AM by antar
reply to post by ninjas4321



I thought that Texas stood for the constitution and freedom from tyranny? This is a very bad sign because for all the hoopla of backing Texas and their bold moves towards sovereignty and independence this is in the opposite direction and very scary. I support the kids and their families who JUST SAY NO!


reply posted on 10-10-2012 @ 08:06 AM by GBP/JPY
reply to post by TheLieWeLive



then you are living a lie...we need no government control
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