Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

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191. Kids will hang their RFID badges in the school, then not attend classes.

If there is no way to prevent that, then the attendance counts using RFID badge will never accurately reflect attendance (as would a real headcount, which is not that difficult nor time consuming). A school doesn't need money for a child who doesn't attend, right? So if a school gets funding for students who are not attending by showing inaccurate RFID numbers, then the school is committing fraud.

Are you asking what is wrong with that?

I guess they can just skip the RFID and go straight to the lie about attendance part. That would get them the extra funding AND save on the costs of the inaccurate RFID equipment.

So anyway, how will the school know if a child is in the building, or if the child has merely left his/her RFID badge behind to be counted?

And yes, if there is no solution to that problem of improving attendance, then the RFIDs are only being deployed by a school that wishes to to defraud the state, so that the state will allocate funding based on those fraudulent attendance numbers. If children are not attending a school when they should be, then the school needs to figure out why and try to eliminate the problems causing the lack of attendance.

Not lie about the numbers using a flawed RFID system that children can circumvent, and then hauling in $$$ that won't be used by the kids who aren't in attendance. And should be deployed in other in schools where children are showing up. This is about correctly allocating money, not giving it to a school to use to engage in fraud, which is what it is when you merely count the "existence" of a badge as actual attendance by a child.

It is critical to get resources where they are needed, not to line the pockets of those who are not acting in the best interests of the students. Real attendance counts provide certainty; RFID appears to provide nothing more than a "badge count". Not a true "child" count. The more I analyze it, the more clear it is that this RFID system cannot achieve its purported goals.