New Canaan, Connecticut Schools Consider Tracking Students With RFID

Please, enough with the text talk. PLEASE TYPE OUT YOUR WORDS. (Ok, I'm done).

Excuse me, where in the article did it say "implanted" in the kid's body? Although, I must admit, I have facitiously suggested this at my school. Please read more carefully and please stop with the all caps. This is just another "get everyone riled up" article. Most parents would not agree, no kids would agree, and all who commented on civil rights issues are correct. No way this would fly in our courts. The people who suggested this are nuts and wasting money that could be better used. Perhaps an adult ed course in reading, spelling and grammar for posters??

I would tell my kid to fight to the death before allowing himself to be treated like slave livestock.

Gorillas? Oh please say that you are not a parent. I agree, to a point. Some parents do not instil proper values in their sons and daughters. We did, our kids were involved in church, sports and Scouting. And they are college educated, wonderful men, But they are in their twenties, and that is not how the world of today is, Even in families where the kids are taught values, not all of the kids are able to apply these values. I have worked with parents who have multiple children and only one is a problem. Behavior is complex and automatically blaming the parents is an unreasonbly cheap shot.

Um, wouldn't the tracking device only tell you where the kid's backpack is? Surely they don't expect Kindergarteners to carry wallets with ID cards, do they? Anyway, the best preparation for safely navigating a school emergency is to practice. What the hell could tracking devices have to do with streamlining buses? And if kids aren't at school, it isn't the schools place to track the kids, it's the parents place. I am appalled that $100k of our taxpayer money is going to fund this invasive, unnecessary attempt at government intrusion into what is not a problem, and into what should be a parenting problem.

Ok what the hell is this bs i heard about the fingerprint scanners in gyms, cell phone, tracking, and now tracking kids at school, whats next dna scanners everywhere. This is starting to look like and sound like 1984 or Gattaca if you haven't seen either i STRONGLY RECOMMEND seeing it or reading the books because our world is slowly turning into this we need to bring all of it to a halt before any real damage is done because once it is done it cannot be stopped or undone.

This proposal, no matter how well intentioned, is "Big Brotherism" at its worst. We've already had school systems take illegal photos of children who borrowed computers with built in webcams. This is just another extention that will be abused in a similar fashion. I hope the parents of New Canaan, and any other community where this gets proposed, reject the idea loud and clear, vote to replace any school board member who favors it, and seeks the termination of any school employee who thinks it's a great idea. School are for learning and encouraging young minds to grow not some form of Nazi concentration camp or Communist gulag.

Probably a bad idea. Good intentions, bad idea, and near impossible to implement.

I would take issue with some who are saying that kids have the same rights and freedoms as adults. Not until you are emancipated and self-supporting and parents (or schools) are no longer responsible for you in any way.

On the other hand, parents give consent to violations of kids' "rights" everyday, for less noble, practical, or reasonable purposes: circumcision, tattoos, and ear piercing come to mind. Less egregiously, they do allow child caregivers and others to watch them and schools to report on their presence/absence, performance, or behavior. They also disclose medical information about the child to the schools and others without the child's "informed consent." Let's not go getting all dippy and brand-new about the realities here. People do want to be informed and to protect their kids, and they do what they feel is necessary in their best judgment.

Kids who take gut-reaction issue with that and think it's about paranoid control or power are the very kids who are looking for trouble and need watching.

Parent should do this for thier children til they reach the age of 10. By then their children should have been taught not to talk to strangers, walk with friends and know who to 'talk' to (police, storeclerks, etc.) if trouble happens. For schools to waste money on this and to invade the children's privacy is sad. I know this is just a 'test' but why test it at all!! If the teachers cannot take attendence, and staff cannot see who is walking off (I hope they can see who is walking on school property) school grounds, maybe they should find another job, you know the one where they ask you 'will that be paper or plastic?'.

Who would pay for the monitoring devices ? Hope it's not the taxpayer ! Should be the child's parent / guardian. But it still
reeks of Hitler's Germany to me. Schtop vere you are ! Ve haf vays of making you talk ! You haf relatives in Norwalk, ja ?
Bad idea. Maybe the parents should teach their kids to respect authority and behave in school, at the mall, etc.

This is an incredibly sad moment for mankind. As a parent I cannot imagine another parent being ok with this type of behavior. Schools are supposed to be there to educate and teach kids right from wrong. The principal of this school needs to have his head examined for even considering to allow this system to be allowed, then they need to let his ass go. The government needs to DENY the federal grant application and then threaten the company responsible for this stupid idea with jail time if they don't forget that they ever thought about it in the first place. I can see this going in a similar way to the red light and speed cameras that are popping up all over America. The company that makes the cameras give them away for free in return for a cut of every ticket that gets written. What's going to go on with these? The company will give away the tracking devices in return for, say, a cut of each school lunch sold? Enough is enough folks. This is the United States of America and it's time we take it back.

As I read a lot of these comments you people remind me of this friend of mine that is convinced that chemtrails are real. Nobody is out to get you...

Kids cut themselves enough as it is. When they hit they teenage years, they're going to want to cut this thing right out of their own flesh.

And a point in time will come when it's absolutely their decision to make, not yours.