Students in Texas to be monitored by microchip

[Igel]

14. My kid's former school district had RFID tags.

If you didn't have your ID, you couldn't board the bus. The scanner said if you were getting on the right bus. The bus also wouldn't leave if the student was at school and hadn't been accounted for.

If the student wasn't in class but was on the bus, the school knew. They'd had more than a few custody battles, with parents kidnapping kids. The school could show that the kid was taken at the bus stop before or after school.

I like the idea of checking to see if kids are where they're supposed to be. Currently we get frequent "Can you identify this student?" video-capture shots.

The real problem was making sure the kids have their IDs on their persons and that their IDs are their own IDs. Bad when one kid has three IDs in his backpack.

(The tags don't have enough capacity for a picture. Sorry.)