Being tracked

Police State Culture Students will be tracked via chips in IDs DRUDGE “ “ .Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) ” Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students. District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags would improve safety by allowing them to locate students — and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day to help offset cuts in state funding, which is partly based on attendance. [...] The school board unanimously approved the program late Tuesday but, in a rarity for Northside trustees, they hotly debated it first, with some questioning it on privacy grounds. Read more: And this is in Texas for chrisake.  San Antonio must be in one of those counties where Lyndon Johnson received 118% of the vote.  If I was writing a novel, members of the school board would be given rides on government drones which would be quickly shot down by Judge Napolitano's band of patriots.  It would be fiction of course, because in real life we'll go on thanking the people who strip us of all freedom in exchange for free Band-Aids. And it would be unlawful too, of course. ”