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In reply to the discussion: Teenager's Faith At Odds With Locator Tags In School IDs [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)You have to have them to board the bus. You're scanned and the fact you're on the bus is recorded and your presence on the bus validated. Same for exiting the bus and entering the school. Then you're scanned when you exit the school and get on (and then off) the bus.
The reason?
1. Some cases of custody fights. One parent would nab the kid between home and the bus stop. The school wanted to show that the kidnapping occured when the school wasn't the kid's temporary guardian. It's also an entirely different matter to kidnap a kid from school property instead of from the street in front of his house.
2. Kids would get off the bus at school and, in the confusion, vanish for the day. The school could track him to being on school property. No need to search his neighborhood.
3. Kids would sneak on the wrong bus or sneak off at the wrong stop. The scanner tells the driver--who may be a sub or a temp or newly switched to that route--that it's okay for you to get off at that stop. Or not. And if the driver let you off anyway, the driver's butt is toast.
Downside: Kids have been known to swap IDs to fool the scanner and the bus driver didn't check the photos.