Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

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91. It would be a huge traffic jam because...

...students arrive in mass on buses all at once, and they are not organized and disciplined like adults are. They will just run in without sliding their card. It is much easier and less of a hassle to use RFID. What value does requiring physical contact between the card and the reader provide? It seems to me that it detracts from the ease of use of the system.

It tracks each student each second they are in the school: Taking attendance at the start of each class is a traditional and expected practice in HS. Making such administrative tasks easier gives teachers more time to teach and costs the school less money. Here is what the school web site says the uses / goals of the system are:

* Increase student safety and security. Our students' parents expect that we always know where their children are in our schools.

* Increase attendance. Through more efficient attendance management, schools can generate additional revenues by identifying students who are not in their seats during roll call but who are in the school and locate them. (Increased attendance = increased state revenues)

* Provide multi-purpose "Smart" Student ID card. The Student ID will provide access to the library and cafeteria, serve as a photo ID, and allow for the purchase of tickets to schools' extracurricular activities. Other uses will be rolled out during the pilot program.