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Texas Students Rebelling Against Electronic Tracking Cards Now Facing ‘Consequences’

Oct. 8, 2012 3:45pm Liz Klimas

Before the end of the 2011-2012 school year, TheBlaze reported a Texas school district’s plans to track students using radio frequency and their I.D. cards. With classes in the San Antonio district school now well underway and the system implemented on Oct. 1, some students are rebelling against the required cards.

John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District issued each student a card using radio frequency to ID their location in an effort to boost attendance. Earlier this year, TheBlaze reported officials saying they expected to gain more funding from the state due to improved attendance levels.

San Antonio School District Implements RFID Card Pilot Program Despite Opposition

(Image: Northside Independent School District via Wired)

Students picked up their badges at registration at the beginning of the year and were reportedly threatened with suspension or school transfer if they didn’t use the badge. One student refusing to use the RFID card said she was denied the ability to vote for Homecoming king and queen.

WND reports Andrea Hernandez rejecting the RFID card for religious and privacy reasons. Still, she tried to use her old card to supplement required identification.

Some have made the comparison of RFID technology being used to track livestock. (Photo: Wikimedia)

“About two weeks ago when I went to cast my vote for homecoming king and queen I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID,” she said according to WND. “I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years we were in school. He said I needed the new ID with the chip in order to vote.”

Hernandez also told WND she is not alone in rebelling against the badges. Other students have joined her as well. Hernandez’s father, Steve, is also taking issue with the badge. Eventually, his daughter was permitted to use her old badge but there are “consequences,” Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo wrote to her father, to not having the tracking card. Not being able to vote for Homecoming court was one of them.

“He told me in a meeting that if my daughter would proudly wear her student ID card around her neck so everyone could see, he would be able to quietly remove her chip from her student ID card,” Steve Hernandez explained. “He went on to say as part of the accommodation my daughter and I would have to agree to stop criticizing the program and publicly support … it. I told him that was unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district’s policy and my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong.”

Steve Hernandez is not the only parent to protest the chips. At a late September school board meeting, several individuals came forward to voice concerns. Watch this news report after the event:

Heather Fazio, executive director of Texans for Accountable Government who spoke after the school district event in the video above, also highlighted to WND one of the privacy concerns regarding the cards. She said she was able to obtain private information, like home addresses, about the students through a Freedom of Information Act Request. She believes this information could be exploited by potential predators.

The organization ”Chip Free Schools” writes in its position paper that it sees tracking students with RFID cards as not only a threat to civil liberties and privacy but also notes the potential for health risk from electromagnetic radiation.

Even with these complaints though, the district’s spokesperson Pascual Gonzales told Wired last month that opposition to the cards as a whole has been minimal. The school district will evaluate how the pilot program goes and could institute it in the NISD’s more than 100 other schools in the future.

It is important to note that the RFID cards stop tracking students when they leave campus.

Although Wired reports some saying the cards are tracking the kids like “cattle,” Gonzales said they are used to surveillance.

“The kids are used to being monitored,” Gonzalez told Wired, noting the districts more than 200 cameras.

Read more details of the ID card dissent in here.

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tugdiver
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:26pm
we are the government and we we are here to help

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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:36pm
  This program is about getting more tax payer money and these lib progs would implant these chips in children’s heads if it means more tax money. On the flip side, the same people argue that needing a simple ID to vote for President is unconstitutional.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:38pm
  You don’t lose your civil rights in public schools. Time to cut the legs out of belligerent educational institutions.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:41pm
  Why would they require an ID to vote for the Kenyan POS when the Kenyan POS doesn’t even have proper ID?
  
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- antiprogressive
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:44pm
  every government OVERintervention starts with GOOD intentions.
  
  The FDA keeps your food afe but in the end you can’t run a lemonade stand.
  The EPA protects the beaches from errosion but now won’t let you build sandcastles.
  The PARKs commission protects wild animals but shut down highway/dam/bridge building products for tiny spiders or minnows.
  
  This is no different.
  
  Some parents CHOOSE to register/track their little kids to prevent/help with kidnapping.
  Companies require photo ID’s to be worn on property for protection.
  Americans flags can’t be flown in some locations due to size and “offending” someone.
  This list goes on and on…
  
  Little by little, the liberals and primarily Progressives are destroying ALL of our freedoms.
  
  The article says the students are only tracked while ON CAMPUS,
  much like your dog with a shock collar / infared fence I suppose.
  
  As long as it is only used AT SCHOOL, I don’t see much difference than the rest of the list…
  
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- dfissell
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:48pm
  i could see 1 good thing with this and that’s just in case of an emergency at the school building
  
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- OldGeek72
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:49pm
  RabidPatriot:
  “…and these lib progs would implant these chips in children’s heads….”
  
  You do realize that our governments are suggesting that very thing don’t you? That’s been discussed over and over again as a way to track missing/kidnapped/run-away/injured/you-name-it kids. It has not gotten very far – yet! It’s things like what this school’s doing that is just the first peek-in-the-door for such a national program. That’s how every nasty nazi/liberal deal we have got it’s start, just a tiny local deal.
  
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- goahead.makemyday
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:00pm
  @RABID the clincher is our current ID’s just verify who you are. They don’t track you through radio signals that anyone with the proper wavelength and a portable scanner (same kind used by ranchers) can follow.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:00pm
  “I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years…”
  
  OK, what Senior (12th grade) wants to walk around wearing a picture taken of themselves from 9th grade?
  
  When I was growing up we didn’t have a “student location” issue. If you didn’t have a good reason for being someplace else other than where you were supposed to be it was off to the Gym locker room for a little one-on-one with the wooden paddle with holes drilled in it.
  
  These progressive teachers stuff leftie politics into the minds of young people and wonder why there in no discipline. “Spare the rod, spoil the Child” means just that. If you spare the rod you will spoil the Child. It only takes once to straighten up a misfit. But, you most catch them in the act so that you both know it’s justified. Never punish unless you both know, without any doubt, know all the facts before hand.
  
  BTW…. in 9th grade I was allowed to bring in my Remington 241A rifle to school to refinish the stock. Rode my bike to school, dropped by the Principles office, removed the firing mechanism, worked on it for 3 days, returned to the office for the firing mechanism, installed it and rode my bike home. Trust is a 2 way street. I earned that trust first and I was trusted.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:14pm
  RabidPatriot
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:36pm
  
  This program is about getting more tax payer money and these lib progs would implant these chips in children’s heads if it means more tax money. On the flip side, the same people argue that needing a simple ID to vote for President is unconstitutional.
  _______________________
  This is Texas, the Republicans control Texas, its not the liberals you good ole’ boy Christian Conervative.
  
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- HI_Don
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:01pm
  @Encino -
  “This is Texas, the Republicans control Texas, its not the liberals you good ole’ boy Christian Conervative.”
  
  No, this is a public DOE school no matter what state your in, that the liberals running things dope. The nation lost control of the public education system a long time ago and this is what you get from the same people that bring you condom distribution, making bibles illegal in schools, removal of the pledge of allegiance because of a non-denominational reference to God, and on and on and on. big brother tracking of students because they can’t create a school where students want to learn, yea par for the course.
  
  And if you are going to slam Christian Conservatives, perhaps you should get the spelling right.
  
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- steelpanther
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:28pm
  This is all about making RFID tech common place so there’s little backlash to when they want to mandate this crap into our bodies and make the mark of the beast come true. Oh yeah, and here’s Adam Savage from Mythbusters about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X034R3yzDhw
  
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- scotts
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:33pm
  Yep,look out,next thing you know they will want to inject it into their arm.We are Americans,get these libs out of government and take back this country for ourselves and especially for our children.We the people of the United States ain’t gotta put up with this.When the school board told the parents and others who are against the tags that only 5 would be allowed to speak they should have spoken anyway in droves until the school board got the message.We have rights and should not back down from these government bullies.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:24pm
  So the commies are for voter ID in a relatively unimportant election as long as it suits their needs but against it for the offices of government where the importance is vital to the well being of this nation.
  
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- WAKEUPUSA2012
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 10:08pm
  This whole family was on the AJ nightly news the other night. Its good to see the blaze pick this up. Now if they would just tell us about how our government runs al qedea and there flouride in our water, or tanted vaccines to cause cancer down the life span.
  
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- ObamaForward_OverTheCliff
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:58am
  What is WRONG with Texas? (Aren’t you sorry you left New York, Glenn?) :)
  
  It’s very simple to correct … WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
  That means the students en mass boycott EVERY SCHOOL FUNCTION (badge or no badge).
  That means the parents en mass VOTE DOWN EVERY SCHOOL BUDGET.
  That means INVESTIGATING WHO IS BEHIND THIS and going after them.
  
  WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
  
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- gena t
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 6:54am
  I used to live in that district where that high school was the one the neighbor kids attended. The number of gangs and the number of kids who skipped school or would leave the school once they got there is unbelievable. If the kids do not attend school at least half the day, the school doesn’t get paid for their attendance at all, therefore since so many were cutting school or classes, it cut back on the amount the school got for teacher pay, building new classes or schools, in the fastest growing school district in the San Antonio area. since this doesn’t track the kids if they are off campus, basically it tells them if the kid has wandered off campus, and the parents can be notified that the child they think is at school is not at school. Since parents seem to feel the school is responsible if something happens when they think their kid is at school and isn’t, seems a good way to let the school know if the kid has left and they can notify the parent(s) they kid is not where they think he/she is. And in that school district it is a big problem. When I lived there, I quickly realized that most of the kids in our apartment complex would use the excuse they missed the bus to skip school since their parent(s) were usually gone to work before the school buses came. So I went to various parents and kids and told them to come to my apartment and get me if they missed the bus and I would take them to school. The parents liked the idea, the kids tested me at first, but it worked.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:18am
  Welcome to Amerika Comrades ! obama has seen to your every need – just be sure to follow the rules!
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:28pm
  These kids need a Voter ID to vote for Homecoming King and Queen and need to have it on them at all times or face being punished. Yet, we do not need to show any ID of any kind to vote for President of the United States of America!! Let, me tell ya’ll something, I went to school in the same district, and they’re testing this out on the poorer kids who much isn’t expected from anyway. They think no one will complain if the fed dollars roll in. It’s not right and these kids are realizing what a nazi state begins to feels like. What tolerant,open government liberals we have running our schools and tagging the kids like animals in San Antonio! The parents don’t even know what the heck is going on. Most are probably on government assistance anyway or the kids are here illegally or as anchor babies.
  So fair. So wonderful for the kids to have more money for their goverment-led lunch programs and curriculum where most will leave high school hating the US, and prepared to party it up in college where further debt is created and liberal indoctrination is completed.
  
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- Dont-hate-on-me-2
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:52am
  IF it is meant to help with locating the students for increased attandence purposes, why would it start and stop tracking them upon entering and leaving the campus. I have a few possible anwsers.
  
  1. The teachers can’t even manage to mark children present anymore they are so incompetent.
  2. The school district is lying.
  
  Well I won’t make you wait till my next post to find out but my opinion is… the answer is #2 and not all teachers are incompetent. Just most of them.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:38am
  “About two weeks ago when I went to cast my vote for homecoming king and queen I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID,”
  
  What RACISTS! And her name is Hernandez too!
  
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MTNative
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:26pm
First of all you are all being tracked with your cell-phone. We all gave up that privacy a long time ago. Second, from a technology standpoint this is awesome. No more calling out names for roll, or wondering where students skip class to. And third, yup they herd our children like animals, but they have done this for years without electronics. What makes this any different? We should have stood up a long time ago when we saw them being brainwashed with liberal policies.

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- Rajabear1
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Cell phone is a choice. For most folks, their child must attend a public school–by law. Therefore they are removing your right to choose whether you want one of these ‘chips’ ‘attached’ to your child. If the parents don’t want this they should be able to opt out. Period. But just like ‘sex ed’, it’ll never happen.
  
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- SanDiegoDave
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 7:12am
  Really? Really?? So lame… I can turn off my cell phone anytime I want. I would refuse to wear the RFID card..
  
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- Arminius23
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:09am
  THEY ALREADY TRACK YOU! They track you with your cell phone regardless if you turn it off or not. Heh! Even if you remove the POWER SOURCE there is no guarantees its not in passive mode. The only way you are not tracked is if you’re off the grid entirely. THINK ABOUT IT! This is just a test of the American people’s resistance and what better way than to run it in the bastion of secessionists.
  
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RED-DAWN
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:24pm
Wrap it in a thick piece of Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil or go the school board meetings on a weekly / monthly basis or whenever they meet and start following them around. After all, they have nothing to hide, I’m sure…

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midnightsun
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:21pm
The student couldn’t cast her vote for homecoming queen and king because she did not have the proper ID, but we don’t have to show ID to vote for the president? WTF is wrong with this country!

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- burnteye86
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Voter Suppression!
  
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- Sail Away
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:41pm
  LOL! WTF, indeed!!!
  
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PoliticalSmackdown {Subscribe & Friend me on YouTube}
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:16pm
take a nice tazer and Zap the living Crap out of the Card will the RFID chip dies. or just drive a nail thorough the chip. i would not let my kid wear that Ever.

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:23pm
  Now you know why school board elections are held on the ‘last Saturday in June’ between the hours of 0200 and 0600.
  
  Vote the bastards out!!
  
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piper60
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:15pm
These students who are rebelling are true Americans. Anybody who has read the book, or seen the movie 1984 will be on their side.

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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:29pm
  Benjamin Franklin – “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
  
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nesmond
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:15pm
If they skip school, they’ll leave the card at home, so as far as the school knows, the student is home. The only successful method to getting real time tracking is with an implant. It’s coming……

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- booger71
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Didn’t Arnold wear one up his nose?
  
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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:33pm
  not to get all biblical but… wearing the mark of the beast upon the forehead or hand and this is the only way to conduct commerce… (Sorry for the butchered paraphrasing but you get the idea) What better way of innocently introducing the mark, because it is for our kid’s safety…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:19pm
  @ Nesmond,
  
  Or a school bully will make a smaller student have his (in his pocket) so the bully can skip school but still show up as being in class. : (
  
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- gena t
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 7:51am
  But hen they skip school and leave the card at home the school will know they are not there since it only registers when they are on campus. And if the parent doesn’t call in an excuse for the kid not being there by a certain hour, the school calls the parent to make sure the parent is aware the kid is not at school. That is to ensure that the kid isn’t wandering the street while the parent thinks he/she is safely at school. It doesn’t always work, because about 40 years ago, when my younger brother ran off with his girl friend, they asked me to call the school and tell them I was her mother and she had stayed home sick. Unfortunately, I did not know her that well and kinda blew it when they asked me what grade she was in and I told them the wrong grade. They wanted me to help them have time to get out of town before her mother found out they were eloping. But then they got away but since both were minors they found they couldn’t get anyone to marry them anyhow, so they came home and told everyone they had gone to Mexico and gotten married and just lived together until they were old enough to really get married. We were all basically kids back then.
  
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valleyfever
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:13pm
This is a government test of the new system. If everybody refuses to wear them , or they “somehow” are disabled, then the test fails. We are Americans. We don’t do that crap!!

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- Necron99
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:09pm
  @ Valley
  
  “we don’t do that crap”
  
  If only that were true. 30 years ago, if someone had mentioned police road blocks and “safety” check points we all would have been shocked – that was something only done in communist Russia. Yet here we are today. Isn’t it sad how we grow to accept the usurpation of our freedom, with every generation moving farther and farther away from the concept of liberty and acceptance of a police state.
  
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My Two Cents
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:13pm
I’m the teachers and administrators would be agreeable to wearing them as well.

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:44pm
  My dog has a chip in her and she has never complained.
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:49pm
  Property isn’t allowed to complain…
  
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OniKaze
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:12pm
Mr. ID Card, Meet Mr. Microwave… Then I will introduce you to his wife, Mrs. Bottom-of-my-locker.. You will get to know her well as you will spend the next 4 years with her…

:-)

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moreteaplease
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:10pm
It is important to note that the RFID cards stop tracking students when they leave campus.
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The “ability to track” stops? And if so, at what range does the inability to track began?

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- nmgene
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:19pm
  The tracking does not stop at the school. It was designed for stopping truancy which means they can track down the child no matter where they are at. My children and grandchildren will never ever wear one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
  
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- MTNative
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:33pm
  People think a lot of technology. Take it from an EE PhD. This would be very difficult and expensive to track outside of a 100 ft range of the school. These chips are powered by the rf energy (no battery included) so they need to be in close proximity to the rf power source. You people freakin out is freakin me out that people are so scared of this.
  
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- Ramv36
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:29pm
  @MTNative
  
  Multiple sources outside TheBlaze have confirmed that the tags being used in San Antonio ARE active, battery-powered RFID, not passive scanner-powered tags.
  
  See everyone at the afterparty, at the bottom of the slippery slope!
  
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- t_party
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 11:44pm
  Even the battery powered ones are still very limited in range. Also, they must be within range of a receiver which is very limited. There are no ubiquitous rfid coverage areas like cell phone coverage. These are simply for attendance “money” purposes. Safety is a joke since all you have to do is take it off your neck while in the school and you are still “there”. Also, you could cut this thing out easily. It would be easier and cheaper to use some facial recognition software to verify attendance. But how about this…we make parents accountable for making sure the kids are at school. Take away their tax exemption if the kids more than X days of school each year. Since we can’t appeal to their intellect to make their kids go to school, hit them in the pocket book. This is a waste of money and a breach of privacy.
  
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You_cant_make_me
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:09pm
Let me get this straight – the liberal school board wants you to use an ID card for voting for homecoming king/queen? But these are the same liberals that are complaining about having to use an ID for a national election telling everyone that it is racist, disenfranchises people and should be outlawed?

Make up your mind on what you want…you cant have it both ways

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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:28pm
  Amen!
  
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darkeningskies
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:06pm
How ironic, you need these cards to vote for homecoming queen and king…….but no ID for voting for president

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momrules
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:06pm
I hate these RFID cards and the idea of being tracked but too many people will go along to get along. This is just priming the pump.

It will be so easy for someone, someday to insist that every human have a mark to allow them to buy or sell. Read Revelation 13:16-18.

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scrapadapolis
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:05pm
U want to implement chip tracking?Fine before school you take it from your locker and wear it,After school it goes back into your locker.But if the intent from the school says you must have it with you to and from school I have a problem with that.

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- darkeningskies
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:11pm
  It is called invasion of privacy…….the school should not be able to track you at all
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:15pm
  I have a problem with any tracking device on my kid that I didn’t put there. Unless a child/teen has a problem with discipline or skipping school, they don’t need a chip to track their every movements. I say find a way to disable it….leave it in the locker….sue for violation of the constitution. GISD better NEVER institute this or I’ll be there telling them my kid won’t wear it. I’ll home school.
  
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nesmond
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:04pm
In your face atheists! This is real deal deal. It won’t be long until we all will have tracking I.D.s and after awhile, they will become obsolete because they are too easily lost or stolen, so then comes the implant. However you atheists will have a choice… Right hand or forehead?

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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:35pm
  MARK OF THE BEAST! nice…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:15pm
  @ Nesmond,
  
  Right after a few bullies start flushing the smaller students ID cards down the toilets so the students location is the sewer system on the tracking computers the School Admins will change over to the implants. : (
  
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anAmericanVet
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:03pm
let me get this straight . .
a judge says tat you do not need proper ID to vote for the President of the United States
. . .but to ote for Homecoming King and Queen you do . . .

the next thing is you’ll tell me they won’t let me buy a drink bigger than 16oz in the Big Apple

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- darkeningskies
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:13pm
  lol
  
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KickinBack
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:01pm
Wow. Now we’re tagging our children like animals. Next they’ll be wearing those invisible fence dog collars to keep them in the classrooms…

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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:40pm
  too funny
  
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uisignorant
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:59pm
““About two weeks ago when I went to cast my vote for homecoming king and queen I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID,…”

If only the election was much more important, then you would not need ID.

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Government_Goodies
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:59pm
The kids should just claim to be democrats and this whole thing will go away.

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caddieman
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:57pm
can’t you just stick the cards in the microwave for a couple of seconds?

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- OniKaze
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Usually yes with RFID that typically works…. And that would be my FIRST action (quickly followed by chucking the thing in my locker and leaving it there until graduation…).
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Don’t throw it in your locker – super glue it to a stray dog. At least make it fun.
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Swap with another student… Every day….
  
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perry1980
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:55pm
Yeah i’m not letting my kid wear that. period.
Speak up Parents !

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762x51
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:55pm
Get the children used to being tracked and they will not question it as adults. This is evil, pure, plain and simple.

How long before they put these RFID chips in your drivers license?

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:09pm
  If it has a ‘magnetic strip’ on the back of it — you can be assured it already is ‘chipped’ – all they have to do is ‘flip’ the GPS on it… If anyone needs a lil ‘lesson’ on technology used nefariously — pick up Brad Thor’s Black List –
  
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- Countrygirl1362
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Are you sure they are not already in the drivers license?
  
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- SingerGuy
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:23pm
  http://www.drivingrules.net/EDL/
  
  “Many states offer a Real ID act compliant Enhanced drivers licenses or EDL. This means a small RFID chip is in the Card (EPC Gen2 chips). The card contains a unique number and barcode that link to a central file or database containing your info. Your info is not stored in the chip.
  
  “On the Northern Border you have Washington, Michigan, New York, Vermont, In Canada, Ontatrio, and British Columbia.
  
  “Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, New Hampshire, and Maine, are still working out the details.
  
  “Southern Border states will be offering EDL as well like Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico
  
  “State-issued enhanced drivers licenses (EDLs) provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship, are issued in a secure process. They provide travelers with a low-cost, convenient alternative for entering the United States from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean through a land or sea port of entry, in addition to serving as a permit to drive.
  
  “Enhanced drivers licenses make it easier for U.S. citizens that travel to Canada and Mexico and will save you time at the Customs Booth upon your return to the United States.”
  
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- Hopalongcasualty
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:38pm
  Pick up a RIFD blocking wallet/billfold.
  
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grimmster
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:53pm
Guess in liberal S.A. they dont like big brother watching them. Get used to it morons,liberal is as liberal does…….

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1awacitizen
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:52pm
but, if they are 18 they can vote for president without and i.d!!!!

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