Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

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142. Why bring it up? Here, I'll quote you:

"This program relieves teachers from having to count and record attendance, and gives them more time to teach."

If you want more time to actually teach, stop teaching to the test. I promise you more actual teaching (and that's not just facts regurgitated by rote, but includes comprehension and critical thinking) will get done. Your reasoning was flawed; you mentioned the time taken in attendance taking, and that was the whole of your primary point. Your point, as stated, was thus invalid, because attendance taking requires a very small slice of time at its worst.

Your final, following paranthetical, depending on school cafeterias and public school lunch assistance as they relate to social stigma, is better handled by requiring (as one possible, plausible, and very doable example of many possible solutions) school account lunch cards, into which parents deposit their child's lunch funds for the week/month/year, capable of use solely at the school, solely in the cafeteria. Students using public assistance would never be visibly 'flagged' for such; the flag would go on the account, into which the parents would deposit the public assistance money, or into which the state would deposit the money directly. Nobody but the cashier need ever know a child is taking public assistance to be fed a school lunch. That nearly every "solution" ever implemented includes a visible sign of the fact the student is getting public assistance to eat lunch means that the people proposing those "solutions" have a very wide and deep streak of evil when it come to the poor.

Since I grew up in a public school system in which creative thinking was still allowed and outside-the-box solutions were still accepted (and, more to the point, taught to be accepted), I'm able to come up with solutions for taking attendance other than hanging a wage-slave-style card around a kid's neck- things teachers already did for literally centuries without any real ongoing problem with the method. I'm willing to do this because I see the long-term consequences of such an easy, short-term 'fix' for a "problem" that has never really been a problem.

Isn't it funny how things that teachers have done for literally forever are suddenly not enough when dollar signs are involved? Ha ha ha. I must pause while I wipe away my tears of mirth.

Besides, if it takes too much time (and even five minutes is too long) for a teacher to take attendance in their own classroom, they are either freshly-minted and very green teachers, or don't have enough control over their students to be teaching in the first place. I can forgive the former and am willing to give lots of time and patience for that particular stew to cook. I will not tolerate, excuse, or condone the latter.

That's why I brought it up. Your reasons for defending these electronic leashes are better dealt with in far less intrusive ways.