School to fingerprint students to ‘monitor their diets’..STOURBRIDGE, England

[lostinblue 1,989]

School to fingerprint students to ‘monitor their diets’STOURBRIDGE, England

A school is implementing a biometric system to better track what students are eating each day.

The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”

The system requires pupils to press a finger against a machine which converts the print into biometric data.

This can then be used to identify individual pupils accounts.

Headteacher Stephen Dunster wrote to parents, “We are aiming to have a cashless system throughout the school. The catering system is better for parents because they don’t have to provide children with lunch money every morning. From our perspective it is far more efficient as it reduces waiting times.

“We will also be able to monitor what children are buying to make sure they are eating a healthy diet.”

Some American schools have attempted to implement palm scanners for similar purposes, but were met with parent anger or technological problems.

Washington’s Puyallup School District spent $38,695 on devices that would map the veins in a student’s palm, and then use that data as a school lunch account identifier.

District employees claimed “human error and fraud” necessitated the palm scanners.

“If the school district needs my signature in order to obtain my daughter’s photograph and use that photograph in publication because of a privacy issue, then I believe I should have to sign an authorization to use my child’s identity … for them to do that,” said parent Christina Allen, EAGnews reported.

“To hear those words vein recognition program… it’s very invasive to me,” she said.

The district ended up ending the program because of parent backlash.

“We failed at communication significantly on this,” said board president Chris Ihrig. “We got an ‘F’ on this one.”

Last year, a group of New York engineers announced the development of a “biometric classroom.”

According to developers at SensorStar Labs, cameras that track students’ eye movements, conversations and even smiles will supposedly help teachers improve classroom learning.

http://eagnews.org/students-to-be-fingerprinted-to-monitor-their-diets/

Soon to be in a school near you ... This will tie in very well with kenyan kare.

[GBCW 397]

Schools also make you show up on time and they make you do your homework and other nonsense.

Schools are exactly where this kind of thing is okay. School is where little people learn behaviors and habits that will make them successful adults.

[Ban Hammer 13,662]

School is where little people learn behaviors and habits that will make them successful adults.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/514148-teen-faces-2-years-in-jail-for-mimicking-oral-sex-with-jesus-statue/

[GBCW 397]

charles, if you have a point to make, then please make it.

[Darnell 8,479]

I think it's great this fingerprinting thingie Is happening in England.

Need more of it, so says I, in England.

[Robby999 1,024]

Get them adjusted to government monitoring early and they will be less likely to balk when their mandated government tracking microchip is implanted!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

One school. Who gives a fanny Adams?

[lostinblue 1,989]

One school. Who gives a fanny Adams?

The liberal elite ... know that the people simply cannot be trusted; that they are incapable of just and fair self-government; that left to their own devices, their society will be racist, sexist, homophobic, and inequitable -- and the liberal elite know how to fix things. They are going to help us live the good and just life, even if they have to lie to us and force us to do it. And they detest those who stand in their way."

- A Nation Of Cowards, by Jeffrey R. Snyder

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You are certifiable. Seriously.

[Karee 4,191]

Maybe they're trying to avoid generating a bunch of fat kids like some other countries. Also, what's the big deal with having them use their fingerprints to pay for lunch? Would probably eliminate kids getting beat up for their lunch money.

I thought they fingerprinted kids in the U.S. in case they get abducted?

Edited September 14, 2014 by Karee

[Dakine10 5,452]

Biometric fingerprint scanning linked to a payment or credit account. Isn't that one of Apple's features for the iPhone 6?

Seems like it's all about how you market it.

[Pooky 3,844]

I thought they fingerprinted kids in the U.S. in case they get abducted?

That's only a voluntary system

[Rattlehead 69]

That's only a voluntary system

Until it's not... just give it time.

[Curmudgeon 227]

That's only a voluntary system

Do you think this system will not be voluntary? I would imagine if anyone serious objected they wouldn't have to join in, but as long as the system isn't linked to any form of governmental data base of potential criminals, what does it really matter? Or, are you suggesting that this really is some secret plot to log all English school kids into a governmental data base in order to be able to track them permanently?

As far as I am aware, English school kids do not currently have to produce photo ID cards on campus. US school kids do.

[Pooky 3,844]

Do you think this system will not be voluntary? I would imagine if anyone serious objected they wouldn't have to join in, but as long as the system isn't linked to any form of governmental data base of potential criminals, what does it really matter? Or, are you suggesting that this really is some secret plot to log all English school kids into a governmental data base in order to be able to track them permanently?

As far as I am aware, English school kids do not currently have to produce photo ID cards on campus. US school kids do.

Wow.

Way to not follow the thread and draw wacky and hopelessly wide of the mark conclusions as a result. Nice try, though.