We like to believe we're progressing in Western culture.
Yet, when I see what's transpiring in Texas I can only shiver in shame and sadness.
These tracking devices (RFID) shouldn't even be up for discussion. It's such a disgusting blatant affront on civil liberties and sensibilities it destroys what little dignity we have in governing our personal responsibilities.
I would not, under any circumstance permit my child to be treated as cattle. Not for money. Not for something as simply as taking attendance which can be done manually and with much less room for unintended consequences. And this terrible, and moronic idea will be vulnerable to endless unintended consequences. For example, the impact connecting Wi-Fi to a human's neck.
I read that children are wearing them. I can't understand parents that allow this. I expect this type of Orwellian logic from Massachusetts and California, but Texas?
Anyway, a Christian family (once upon a time that was a given...meh) is challenging it on religious grounds and this has sparked a debate about religion and freedom but I fear this detracts from the overall point that it's not a religious issue. It's a basic human rights one, I reckon and argue.
The issue at hand? Public funding. As in, as I mentioned earlier, money. Think of it, the school is ready to permit kids to be tracked (and this apparently hasn't been thoroughly thought out. Turns out, anyone can hook or link up to RFID and track children bringing up all sorts of safety issues) for money.
Read more here.
"...By reducing truancy and tardiness, the school stands to net $2 million dollars in state funding...."
Geez, then change the way schools are funded.
It's no different in any public institution relying on funding to survive. In health, the system in Canada, for example, is forced into treating people not as patients but as cost-entities.
Moreover, it's may begin frightening trend. What's to stop, say, a company in using this heinous tracking device?
The more we progress, the less we're free.
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