Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

[cloquet]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21 ... rfid_chip/

A plan by a San Antonio school district to continuously monitor its students using RFID has run into legal problems after one of them took a stand against being forced to use the tracking technology.

Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio, Texas has spent over $500,000 on its "Student Locator Project," a lanyard worn around the neck that has both a bar code and RFID tag built in. Students need the lanyard to use the library or cafeteria, vote in school elections, and in some cases for toilet breaks, and it allows the school to track their every movement throughout the day.

Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore student at the John Jay High School's Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio, has been effectively expelled from school for refusing to wear the tags, citing religious, privacy, and freedom of expression reasons.

The school offered to give her a special lanyard with the RFID tag removed, but she refused to wear this, either, as it would be taken as her supporting the system. The school also stopped her from passing out leaflets to other students regarding the locator project.

"I feel it's an invasion of my religious beliefs," she told InfoWars. "I feel it's the implementation of the Mark of the Beast*. It's also an invasion of my privacy and my other rights."

After a series of talks between the school, Hernandez, and her parents, her position at the science academy was "withdrawn" and she has been reassigned to another school. The family are now taking action against the school with the help of the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group.

The lawsuit will put a spanner in the works for the RFID tagging scheme, since the NISD already has plans to roll out the tracking scheme to over 100,000 students under its remit. The school district is hoping the system will increase school attendance, and thus win it a grant of nearly $2m from the state government.

"This is about money, plain and simple," John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, told The Register. "School violence is falling and, as Bill Clinton pointed out, a public school is a very safe place for a child to be. It's all about getting funding from the RFID system."

The school has already installed over 200 CCTV cameras in an attempt to curb truancy, some of which have a live link directly to the local police department, Whitehead said. All of this, along with the RFID scheme, is paid for out of the education budget.

"What’s happening now is going to spread across the country," Whitehead said. "If you can start early in life getting people accustomed to living in surveillance society then in future it'll be a lot easier to roll these things out to the larger populace."

What an awful sounding school. Dunno about her comment about "the mark of the beast" but it's definitely an infringement of privacy.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

mark of the beast refers to the apocalypse & the antichrist. end times thing.

[Ficticious]

that would suck.

[scottie584]

"What’s happening now is going to spread across the country," Whitehead said. "If you can start early in life getting people accustomed to living in surveillance society then in future it'll be a lot easier to roll these things out to the larger populace."

[kale]

people are fucking STUPID if they are ruling this type of thing as the mark of the beast. probably a feminist. anyways, mark of the beast is a physical mark, on the forehead or right hand, not a fucking chip on a lanyard around your neck. she should have just changed school / started private school

[kale]

if people would wise up, theyd realise the bible isnt just a symbolic refernce book. Mark of the beast will probably be a mark, from a claw, of a beast like nothing you've ever seen before. something like a man turned into a lab experiment, or something. check out those donut head injection things, that seems more like the mark of the beast to me then RFID nonsense

[Electric_Head]

if people would wise up, theyd realise the bible isnt just a symbolic refernce book. Mark of the beast will probably be a mark, from a claw, of a beast like nothing you've ever seen before. something like a man turned into a lab experiment, or something. check out those donut head injection things, that seems more like the mark of the beast to me then RFID nonsense

So you say it's a symbolic reference book but proceed to say it will be an actual mark from a beast.
Stop talking shit.
Symbolic is symbolic.
She is closer to the truth than you are.

[Phigure]

she's against it for the wrong reasons

people are fucking STUPID if they are ruling this type of thing as the mark of the beast. probably a feminist. anyways, mark of the beast is a physical mark, on the forehead or right hand, not a fucking chip on a lanyard around your neck. she should have just changed school / started private school

if people would wise up, theyd realise the bible isnt just a symbolic refernce book. Mark of the beast will probably be a mark, from a claw, of a beast like nothing you've ever seen before. something like a man turned into a lab experiment, or something. check out those donut head injection things, that seems more like the mark of the beast to me then RFID nonsense

i cant contain my laughter at you declaring this as "nonsense" and then going on to talk about how the mark of the beast will actually be a real thing

[dickman69]

so this is a private school right?

dont see what the problem is...

should be expelled imo

[Electric_Head]

For years they said the mark of the beast would be a scar from the implanted RFID tag.
And I'm not making that up.

[collige]

so this is a private school right?

dont see what the problem is...

should be expelled imo

Public school.

[dickman69]

oh ok then i see the conflict (why is it called "independent" confusing)

still i can understand why school would like to know where kids are while theyre at the school
also i wouldnt want to wear one

seems reasonable tho

[Terpit]

I know someone who believes the mark of the beast will be a missing eye, the person with the mark of the beast will be the anti-christ right?

Also, fuck that school, she's the only one who refuses to wear one of those things?

[sixs]

people are fucking STUPID if they are ruling this type of thing as the mark of the beast. probably a feminist.

[lloydnoise]

Kale = master troll

in the world of paranoid christian loons, the RFID chip, tattoos and plenty other things have been called 'marks of the best' or other such signs of a coming apocalypse.
like the rest of the bible, they're just metaphors... such hard faceplams at talk of ACTUAL beasts



personal freedoms eroding as a result of mass state surveillance = world ends when beasts mark humanity
META4 M8

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^pretty sure the euro was at one point considered the mark of the beast too

[Marcus]

Waste of the schools resources and not needed, I can't blame her for not wanting to be tracked like an animal.

[Forum]

She lost my sympathy at mark of the beast

[Phigure]

Kale = master troll

youre probably right actually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[skell1ngton777]

people are fucking STUPID if they are ruling this type of thing as the mark of the beast. probably a feminist.

Yes, feminists are notorious for using to the book of revelations and the bible in general to further their creationist agenda.