Big Brother is watching: How tech turns public school students into prison inmates
A growing number of school districts have begun to incorporate the same kind of high-tech radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems used successfully by prison administrations to better control and manage state and federal prison populations. The latest example is found in Texas where Northside Independent School District requires students to carry a unique school ID card embedded with a tracking chip that allows school administrators to instantly pinpoint the geographic location of any student.
We must ask ourselves: Have schools perhaps gone too far by tracking students with an overly intrusive method that prison guards use to oversee their inmates?
