"Intelligent Uniform" stops students from doing truancy

[Luizao876]

Quote:Since the beginning of the week, students from the city of Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia, will no longer be able to truancy. A "smart uniform" will tell their parents if students came to school - or "tell" if they did not pass the gate.

The system, based on radio frequency works through a minichip installed in the new uniform shirt, which began to be distributed to 20,000 students on Monday.

It works like this: when students enter school, a sensor installed in the entrance detects the chip and sends an SMS to parents warning of entry into the institution.

If, within 20 minutes after the beginning of class, students do not go there, notice changes in tone and parents receive the sentence: "Your son is not yet in school."

According to the Municipal Secretary of Education, Coriolanus Moraes, the idea is to keep parents informed about the frequency of students.

"We realize that many parents would leave students in school, but soon ran away to work and did not see if they came," he says.

"Then when we called for a meeting, they were surprised by the number of absences of the children."

Now, every three absences, parents will be called the school to justify the absence. If they do not attend, the institution can warn the Guardian Council and the Public Ministry.

In one part of the uniforms, the equipment is hidden in the school crest. In another, the sleeve is camouflaged in the middle of the sentence of Paulo Freire: "Education does not changes the world. Education changes people. People change the world."

The distribution, according to Moraes, aims to prevent students discover a way to circumvent the system - which, he says, is almost "impossible" due to a security system chip.

He also says the technology is tough. "You can wash, iron and fold," he says.

Altogether, the amount invested was $ 1.2 million. The estimate is that the system works for the first 20,000 students within 15 days. The remaining half should be contemplated until 2013.

Thoughts?

[LOON_ATTIC]

Fuck that shit.

[Dirtbikemike]

$1.2 million dollars spent on 20,000 kids. Ask your parents how their tax money is doing

[Miller0700]

Pointless and a waste of money.

[Luizao876]

It's Reais, but still, it's a waste of fuckin money.

[Luizao876]

"To me everyone should have already been chipped a long time ago. Thus tricksters would think twice before robbing someone and commit crimes of all kinds. If technically possible, it should be placed as deeply, or more difficult to be taken."

That was actually a comment from the news.

[Wingless]

Hooray, 1.2 million they could've spent on making the school better by hiring better teachers, renovating buildings, new equipment, etc. all gone down the drain.


Protip: If you want kids to be in school, make it so that they actually want to come to school, and make learning enjoyable, these uniforms won't change shit.

I hope these students start protesting and stay home from school in droves, because if they do, the school will loose a shitload of even more money for each student's truancy, and they'll begin to realize they fucked up as badly as they possibly could with this move.

(03-23-2012 10:06 AM)Luizão876 Wrote:  "To me everyone should have already been chipped a long time ago. Thus tricksters would think twice before robbing someone and commit crimes of all kinds. If technically possible, it should be placed as deeply, or more difficult to be taken."

That was actually a comment from the news.

I would love to go up to this scum and ask him if he would be alright with having the same tracking done to him. "How about a chip in your clothing that would track the days you arrive at your job as well as if you arrive exactly on time. Or how about the state or federal government implementing a civilian tracking system to keep an eye on where you were? No? Well shut the fuck up. Yes? Please allow me to introduce your head to my golf club named "common sense". "

[HeartofShadows]

Echo the sentiments on waste of money, etc.
Also some kids don't give a damn if their parents know they skipped school or not and some parents care even less.
but seriously what a way to waste 1.2 billion.

[Absnt]

Mfw I would cut it out and hand it to the school staff, go home, get bitched at by my parents when the school called, bitch right back, and go to sleep.

[Thought Criminal]

1) Go to school
2) Remove shirt and place in locker
3) Leave
4) ????
5) Profit?

Also, since when is truancy a verb?

[UltraRobot]

[batboy138]

It's only a matter of time before they put tracking devices in our skin.

[Absnt]

And only a matter of time before hundreds of patients get them torn out in an mri machine / fried by a pointed microwave / cut out / deactivated by a bomb going off in the serveroom that processes all of the data.

[UnschoolShqiponjë]

1984

[Sapphire Flames]

I'm not surprised anymore.
All the schools do anymore is try to improve attendance and test scores.
Too tired to write a rant.

[M3116]

My mom would get annoyed by all the messages. She'd cut the little fucker off, I mean if I didn't first. Besides, what if they are in the office? What they already do about attendance, it works just fine, I mean if you could say that. What needs to be done now is schools need to actually start adapting to their masses instead of focusing on what prison uniforms they will wear.

[1312]

Chipping started a long time ago already.

Soon under your skin.
(If not already, you may never know)

[Dirtbikemike]

(03-23-2012 09:17 PM)LedoS Wrote:  Chipping started a long time ago already.

Soon under your skin.
(If not already, you may never know)

I'll fucking punch the guy placing the chips in the face and run.

[.Manicrose.]

They'll probably do it at birth and make it somehow impossible to get it out... god I wish there were a conspiracytheorist icon I could pepper my posts with... except this isn't even in that realm anymore. It's becoming real life.

[Dirtbikemike]

(03-24-2012 12:27 AM).Manicrose. Wrote:  They'll probably do it at birth and make it somehow impossible to get it out... god I wish there were a conspiracytheorist icon I could pepper my posts with... except this isn't even in that realm anymore. It's becoming real life.

Inb4 cutting it out anyway

[1312]

I read somewhere that they could put it in with vaccines and make it reallly small. But oh well, I won't be getting ANY vaccines ever again anyways.

And Mike, if you run away, easy, they will just send cops at you.

[Stadium]

Soon they'll put chips in their brains

[HeartofShadows]

very damn funny.
the people who brought this up years ago were the butt of jokes but now its happening and it ain't so funny anymore now is it?

[Sociopath]

(03-23-2012 11:31 AM)Thought Criminal Wrote:  1) Go to school
2) Remove shirt and place in locker
3) Leave
4) ????
5) Profit?

Also, since when is truancy a verb?

Motherfucker...I was going to say that.

GET OUT OF MY MIND YOU FUCK

[1312]

(03-24-2012 02:41 AM)HeartofShadows Wrote:  very damn funny.
the people who brought this up years ago were the butt of jokes but now its happening and it ain't so funny anymore now is it?

"What are you talking about? Conspiracy theorists are obviously mentally retarded people who are bored and just plain crazy! Everything is under control and fine, don't worry!"

[HeartofShadows]

(03-24-2012 03:46 AM)LedoS Wrote:  "What are you talking about? Conspiracy theorists are obviously mentally retarded people who are bored and just plain crazy! Everything is under control and fine, don't worry!"

Government already wants a database with your dna on file from birth so yeah the chip in skin thing won't take too long.

[.Manicrose.]

Quote:Government already wants a database with your dna on file from birth so yeah the chip in skin thing won't take too long.

Fuck this shit I'm just gonna go live in the woods like Thoreau. If in the future you see a ragged girl stomping around the forest carrying a copy of Walden, don't panic, it's just me

[Electronagon]

They're getting desperate. $1.2 Million? Think of it.... $1.2 Million spent on improving school... and it's all gone into uniform.

[1312]

That's not all...

NWO in your country by 21st Dec 2012.

[Prince Rilian]

Yeah, see, the reason the schools are failing is that the kids don't attend enough........