Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

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184. What stops skipping kids from hanging their badges in their lockers or the restrooms or

in their friends backpacks in the morning, and then they skip out all day? Their "badges" will be read as though they were present.

RFID tags make it far easier to skip school. You at least have a chance at a decent attendance rate if the teacher takes the attendance in person. But with this new RFID method, the child that is "not in the home room in the morning" because he is at the mall will be counted as present because his trusty RFID tag is at school, just not in its owner's home room seat.

Is there a method to prevent this? No. Not unless you have eyes taking roll, not a scanner.

This seems like a way for a school with bad attendance to continue to get funding by pretending that the children are there, when it is only a badge left there by a skipping child. Legislating badges merely avoids the real issues for the poor attendance. Worse, it will encourage skipping school - I mean, it was tough to duck out of a class after roll call... but if all I had to do was ditch my badge for the day anywhere in the school and be counted?

Whose dumb idea was this? RFIDs are clearly all about the money. Not about the kids, or curing what is causing the attendance issues. This school ought to be ashamed.