Tuesday, March 08, 2005

American Schools Tag Children

Boston.com / News / Nation / School's electronic tracking zapped:

"It started with a girl who went home from junior high saying she felt like an orange.
Lauren Tatro, 13, told her parents the facts. Every student at Brittan Elementary School had to wear a badge the size of an index card with their name, grade, photo -- and a tiny radio identification tag. The purpose was to test a new high-tech attendance system. To the eighth-grader, it seemed students had been turned into grocery items on the shelf, slabs of sirloin at the meat counter, fruit in the produce section."

Try it with Abby? They won't find out much. She rarely gets out of bed!

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