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Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker

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I hope the student wins.**** like this could be used to used to breed compliance with government and corporate monitoring of what we do.

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker | Threat Level | Wired.com

A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip.
Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the fall. The ID badge has a bar code associated with a student’s Social Security number, and the RFID chip monitors pupils’ movements on campus, from when they arrive until when they leave.
Radio-frequency identification devices are a daily part of the electronic age — found in passports, and library and payment cards. Eventually they’re expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. Now schools across the nation are slowly adopting them as well.
The suspended student, sophomore Andrea Hernandez, was notified by the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio that she won’t be able to continue attending John Jay High School unless she wears the badge around her neck, which she has been refusing to do. The district said the girl, who objects on privacy and religious grounds, beginning Monday would have to attend another high school in the district that does not yet employ the RFID tags.
The Rutherford Institute said it would go to court and try to nullify the district’s decision. The institute said that the district’s stated purpose for the program — to enhance their coffers — is “fundamentally disturbing.”
“There is something fundamentally disturbing about this school district’s insistence on steamrolling students into complying with programs that have nothing whatsoever to do with academic priorities and everything to do with fattening school coffers,” said John Whitehead, the institute’s president.
 
The Hernandez family, which is Christian, told InfoWars that the sophomore is declining to wear the badge because it signifies Satan, or the Mark of the Beast warning in Revelations 13: 16-18.
if this were a tattoo, then maybe that would be a reasonable objection
the school's expectation is not onerous
wear the chipped ID card so that the school- which is responsible for the students on campus grounds - can know where its students are located during school hours
 
From the article : "School officials offered to quietly remove the tracking chip from Andrea’s card if the sophomore would agree to wear the new ID without the imbedded RFID chip so as to give the appearance of participation in the Student Locator Project. Andrea refused this offer. "

Why would that be a violation of her religion? I think it could be a good tool to have in a school shooting situation to help the police be able to locate students hiding in closets and such.
 
I hope the student wins too. This goes too far for my tastes even though the "it signifies Satan" part of the objection is too far out there for me.
 
I hope the student wins too. This goes too far for my tastes even though the "it signifies Satan" part of the objection is too far out there for me.

why is it a bad idea for the school to use technology to know where each of its students is located on campus during school hours?
 
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its a school, they make the rules, currently i don't see the big deal at all.
Guess that could change if i read more about it, but based on the article im fine with the tags.
She can find a different school.
 
if this were a tattoo, then maybe that would be a reasonable objection
the school's expectation is not onerous
wear the chipped ID card so that the school- which is responsible for the students on campus grounds - can know where its students are located during school hours

And tracking peoples location is violation of their rights.
 
From the article : "School officials offered to quietly remove the tracking chip from Andrea’s card if the sophomore would agree to wear the new ID without the imbedded RFID chip so as to give the appearance of participation in the Student Locator Project. Andrea refused this offer. "

The card is obviously meant for tracking purposes. Without that the card is entirely useless and she has no reason to care about the schools appearances. It is however in her interest to make them look as bad she possibility can and to refuse their offer that was only meant so they could save some face.
 
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Our schools are becoming prisons. Fences all around, zero tolerance policies, drug testing, ridiculous lunchtime restrictions, strip searches, and now RFID tracking. It is a shame that so many are willing to give up so much out of fear.
 
And tracking peoples location is violation of their rights.

Good Point. This is a major violation to personal privacy. This is making High School's a Police State (They are Gov. Institutions) in themselves. This is going way to far in my opinion; If they are that paranoid about their students, invest in cyber school not RF-ID chips.
 
why is it a bad idea for the school to use technology to know where each of its students is located on campus during school hours?
I just don't like the idea of any institution tracking anybody.
 
Good Point. This is a major violation to personal privacy. This is making High School's a Police State (They are Gov. Institutions) in themselves. This is going way to far in my opinion; If they are that paranoid about their students, invest in cyber school not RF-ID chips.

If someone wants to leave the school they have the right to leave the damn school. The school is responsible for the kids, but the kids also have free will and the school is NOT a prison. If they want to skip half of the day than that is their right to do.

But yes, it is violation of ones privacy.
 
I just don't like the idea of any institution tracking anybody.

as long as its on their property during school hours im find with it. Nobody is forcing her.

My work has the same badge, its never bothered me :shrug:

Do you see harm in it?
 
Our schools are becoming prisons. Fences all around, zero tolerance policies, drug testing, ridiculous lunchtime restrictions, strip searches, and now RFID tracking. It is a shame that so many are willing to give up so much out of fear.

Well they might have no rights, but they are safe. Thank god for that. :roll:
 
as long as its on their property during school hours im find with it. Nobody is forcing her.

My work has the same badge, its never bothered me :shrug:

Do you see harm in it?
I just like privacy. Therefore, for me, the harm is that people get less privacy. However, I see your point about the fact that since it's on their property, it shouldn't be a big deal. I'm kind of torn on it, actually. It's kind of like websites tracking how visitors use their site. I understand why they do it (I'm a programmer, so I even do it), but I don't like when I lose privacy.
 
I just like privacy. Therefore, for me, the harm is that people get less privacy. However, I see your point about the fact that since it's on their property, it shouldn't be a big deal. I'm kind of torn on it, actually. It's kind of like websites tracking how visitors use their site. I understand why they do it (I'm a programmer, so I even do it), but I don't like when I lose privacy.


works for me i was just curious, thought maybe there was something you saw that i didnt.
Thing is you dont really have privacy at work or at school. You have some to your own personal body but even that is limited. Now im not saying i agree with that but its just the reality.

Your privacy on others property quickly becomes limited.
 
Well they might have no rights, but they are safe. Thank god for that. :roll:

I think they should just go all the way and give the educators cattle prods so they can control the herd between the sessions of teaching the standardized test and the board-certified feedings. Implants should be required because badges can be easily removed and there is a risk that some animal might get lost when making a trip to the watering hole.
 
I think they should just go all the way and give the educators cattle prods so they can control the herd between the sessions of teaching the standardized test and the board-certified feedings. Implants should be required because badges can be easily removed and there is a risk that some animal might get lost when making a trip to the watering hole.

Indeed, do it at birth where apparently violations of rights is ok because you won't remember the pain. At that up to will ensure the child is safe and you have a win win baby.
 
works for me i was just curious, thought maybe there was something you saw that i didnt.
Thing is you dont really have privacy at work or at school. You have some to your own personal body but even that is limited. Now im not saying i agree with that but its just the reality.

Your privacy on others property quickly becomes limited.
I agree. Privacy does become limited on others' property which is why I'd like to save as much of it as I can.
 
I think the system would be more fair if it targeted known truants. No need to track the movements of otherwise trustworthy students, which I am sure makes up the majority of most school campuses.

Trouble is, it's hard to justify such a huge capital outlay to track only a handful of students. The simple fact is, we have the technology to track people 24/7, so we will. Our work trucks have GPS in them and can tell how fast you're going, and sends an email to our office if the truck you are driving goes over a certain speed threshhold. Our company gets a discount on their insurance by having this technology installed. This school district is getting a similar incentive in the form of increased funding for using the system.

I literally moved one of our company trucks from one end of a parking lot to another and immediately got a call on my cellphone asking me why I moved the truck.
 
I agree. Privacy does become limited on others' property which is why I'd like to save as much of it as I can.

fear enough and i agree in ways but the alternative is simply your not allowed on their property.

Now my work is a different story, we are a secured facility and there are even classified areas of the building so the necessity for tracking is much more obvious and logical.
 
fear enough and i agree in ways but the alternative is simply your not allowed on their property.

Now my work is a different story, we are a secured facility and there are even classified areas of the building so the necessity for tracking is much more obvious and logical.
Yeah, it makes more sense for that kind of workplace. And yeah, I know the alternative is not being allowed on their property, but as in the OP's story, it's a government school, so there's more room for contesting the privacy invasion.
 
why is it a bad idea for the school to use technology to know where each of its students is located on campus during school hours?

Because if you're having a quiet fap in the art cupboard, the school doesn't need to know. It's a violation of privacy.
 
And tracking peoples location is violation of their rights.

really
so that pre-school teacher who monitors the whereabouts of the toddlers is violating their rights
good to know [/s]
 
30 seconds in the microwave should solve the problem.
 
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