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So is this a good idea - using a fingerprint scanner to take attendance?

http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4281962.stm

"The head teacher said it would aid self-registration and cut teachers' administrative workloads.

Youngsters will use check-in stations each morning, where the technology will identify and verify who they are.

The parents of any absentees will be notified using text messages on their mobile phones."


Won't kids just go home after doing it in the morning?

yes. just like they do under the "old system", if not more so as no-one is around to see them slope off.

Why not use this technology for something that it could really make a difference on -credit cards. never mind all this not-checking-signatures/chip-and-pin crap -we ought to be able to digitally read and verify fingerprints at the checkout by now -much quicker, so hard to cheat. They would be easy to install at Pay-at-the-pump gas stations too.

It'll only work in school if each seat in the clessrooms is fitted with the same technology to keep track of the brats. Big Brother regards.......

(why bother keeping track of them -they're only cheating themselves.... someone has to be at the bottom of the heap, some people do very well without formal education...... uh-oh, a whole new can of worms....)

Won't kids just go home after doing it in the morning?[/quote]


Not after "six of the best" after registration... lol lol

Heh. They'll have a tough time texting me. Don't have a mobile phone.

It does seem that kids can go home after fingerprinting just as they did after registration when I was a lass.

LUDDITE!!!!

Heathen!

Anti-American!

Traitor!

Tree-hugging wishy-washy-liberal!

I hadn't thought of that - I don't have a cell phone either.

So exactly what is wrong with taking the register? And what massive improvement could justify the costs of a fingerprinting system?

A school recently started to test a system to monitor kids by giving each an identity card and recievers over the class door to record their entry etc. Of course, this being America, most of the parents were against the idea and the ACLU got involved. Something about freedom or rights or something.

Personally, I would prefer to have my children monitored whilst on school grounds and know that they were doing what they are supposed too etc..

I wish they had had this when I was at school. The teachers would have had no responsibility for seeing if students were present, So Michael Bryant and I would give our cards to Doddy and Jim, and thy would each carry two cards in while Bryant and I went to the pictures or summat. Next day we could switch with Doddy and Jim. I like it :mrgreen:

That is what super glue and duct tape is for.. :)

How long do you think it'll be before its optional then mandatory for kids to have microchip implants under their skin?