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AngryCollegeDude
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School uses GPS on students who skip.
*sigh*
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... ?GT1=43001
This shouldn't surprise me considering it is the public schools, but wow what a shit load of fuck. But wait, it's "optional". Here's an excert.
Quote:It's worth noting that while this anti-truancy program is very elaborate and almost invasive, it is also entirely optional. Students and their parents are offered the chance to voluntarily participate in the "monitoring as a way to avoid continuation school or prosecution with a potential stay in juvenile hall."
On top of that, parents would also be avoiding the $2,000 fine that can come from turning a blind eye to truancy if a school district chooses to pursue the issue.
Yeah, let them monitor you or go jail/be fined. Yeah entirely optional!
Big brother much?
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All I say is *sigh*
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...And repeat after me... You are free.
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I've been truant on more than one occasion, and not once has my school exercised their ability to intrude, investigate and fine my family for it. The very fact that they have that ability scares me though. Fuck them, if they start doing that shit, I don't even know what I would do.
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Wow...that's fucked up. I'm glad my school doesn't do this...but they do call and ask for a conformation call back, which is annoying. >.< But it's still not as bad as being tracked...
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Typical. They don't give a shit why the students are skipping, that school is a hellhole that makes them hate life most likely. They instead want to use hundreds of dollars for these devices rather than using that money to maybe, you know, improve the schools! 
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AngryCollegeDude Wrote:*sigh*
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... ?GT1=43001
This shouldn't surprise me considering it is the public schools, but wow what a shit load of fuck. But wait, it's "optional". Here's an excert.
Quote:It's worth noting that while this anti-truancy program is very elaborate and almost invasive, it is also entirely optional. Students and their parents are offered the chance to voluntarily participate in the "monitoring as a way to avoid continuation school or prosecution with a potential stay in juvenile hall."
On top of that, parents would also be avoiding the $2,000 fine that can come from turning a blind eye to truancy if a school district chooses to pursue the issue.
Yeah, let them monitor you or go jail/be fined. Yeah entirely optional!
Big brother much?
...good Lord, are you serious?
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What if you just throw the GPS thing under a table or something
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I'm sure happy they didn't have this a my school 
I wonder why they haven't yet put rfid chips in kids' brains to ease roll call, and cameras in bathrooms to make sure nobody is smoking... That would be fun lol
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Cameras in the toilets... Inside the toilets... I mean, in the bowl..
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Elfy Wrote:...And repeat after me... You are free.
You nailed it. I feel so bad about how far this has gone. I's amazing to me that school officials think that school is so valuable that kids should never be given the benefit of the doubt when they decide to do something else. I know I keep talking about when I taught I did this and that but when I taught high school, if a kid skipped I figured he or she had to take care of an emotional need. I mean, if you skip it means you didn't want to go and if you don't want to go it means your heart is pulling you somewhere else. Instead of being so aggressive about forcing these kids to attend school they should be considering why they hate it so much. Plus, you can't teach someone who really doesn't want to be there, so what's the point?
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My parents, and many others I know, would eat this up. What was that one quote... "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
The worst part is, these people actually think they're doing good. They go home at night and sleep well believing this helps us.
P.S. Not sure why you guys bumped this. Guess it was lulzy a few weeks ago, and is still lulzy now.
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TheCancer Wrote:Elfy Wrote:...And repeat after me... You are free.
You nailed it. I feel so bad about how far this has gone. I's amazing to me that school officials think that school is so valuable that kids should never be given the benefit of the doubt when they decide to do something else. I know I keep talking about when I taught I did this and that but when I taught high school, if a kid skipped I figured he or she had to take care of an emotional need. I mean, if you skip it means you didn't want to go and if you don't want to go it means your heart is pulling you somewhere else. Instead of being so aggressive about forcing these kids to attend school they should be considering why they hate it so much. Plus, you can't teach someone who really doesn't want to be there, so what's the point?
It's worse than being pointless. That person doesn't want to be there, has a desire to do something else, and you'd have to force them to stay on task. This ties you up, meaning you can't help the people who want to be there, and actually need your help.
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