Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

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103. It takes more than 30 seconds, and attendance reports have to be filled in...

...at least when I was in school, they did. These were collected and then reconciled at the end of the day. I believe I've read reports that count instruction time increases of five minutes or so per class as being significant in learning.

I would agree, however, that this seems like a trivial benefit if the system costs a substantial amount. So why would they be doing it? It seems that the real benefit is greater revenue through better attendance records when the kid is not in class at the time of the roll call but actually is in the school building. I'm not sure of the mechanics, but if they can locate the kid and count his presence, they get more revenue from the state.

The whole point of the pilot is to see if the increased accuracy of attendance records increases revenue and makes the system cost effective. Cost effective meaning getting much more money for the school than the system costs.

My bet is that if they get more money than it costs, it stays. If they don't, it goes. Why would they pay a lot for trivial information if it doesn't add to the bottom line? I don't think they would.