I 100% believe it's too intrusive. Then again, I skipped a lot of school...

I agree. The idea of a school tracking kids with a microchip is completely out of line.

I'm afraid to start writing all the reasons I think tracking students with implanted chips or cards would be wrong so I'll sum it up. Every time our government tells us something is for our security they abuse as soon as possible.I don't believe schools would be any different. I don't want to be tracked and don't want my kids tracked. It would keep me from sending them to a school if that was mandatory.

how would you feel about your employer (government) tracking you with a chip, that will be next

Surely kids have enough friends in each of their classes to have the friends carry their ID to each of their classes for them. Kids are very crafty and inventive. I don't agree with this and feel it would also be a waste of time and tax dollars for nothing.

As long as tracking is limited to school days and hours and school property. It might actually discourage playing hooky, drug use at school, and could eliminate some bullying.

Thats insane...
I get their point, but also like said here, their not idiots. They'd just stash it in their locker, or something else, there's plenty of ways for them to get around that.

This notion is just as frighteningly Fascist (and pointless) as the Sex Offender Registry. http://www.change.org/petitions/non-sex-offender-status-is-a-big-deal Kids would have no privacy. I student that repeatedly goes to the bathroom to deal drugs, looks like the same pattern as a student with Diarrhea, who could say? A lazy student looks the same as a tag left in a locker. A heap of bullies piled on top of one kid looks the same as a group hug.

At least with true surveillance you could see the difference. These microchips provide nothing useful, just a mammoth intrusion which everyone will resent...

The notion that it monitors kids that skip class is ludicrous. If the reason behind these chips was on the basis that the authorities might be able to track kidnapped kids I'd lend an ear, in this case it doesn't make sense. How would they tell for example if the implanted ID belongs to the person carrying it or if one kid has two or more while the ID owners are off campus? It would only work if the chips were surgically implanted and I'm 110% against it. If you want to do it to my kids I vote to have anyone being paid by taxpayers to have said chip implanted all the way up to congress so we know if and when they are on / off the job.

Sex offender registry cannot be compared to this, that's a necessary evil so to speak.

High school students and below are NOT adults, and therefore do not have the same "rights" as their parents, or other adults. This particular tech is no more intrusive than a teacher constantly monitoring his or her students' locations, and that most definitely IS their job. But this brings us to the catch: why do we need tech to keep track of students? Teachers did it in my day, they did it in my grandparents' day, why is it too much to ask now?

It's too easy to ditch an unattached chip, and there's no way to tell what's happening to the chip-holder without eyes-on anyway. We'll end up with a ton of money spent on implementation, then a ton more spent on upgrades, and THEN there will be an abduction/death/injury of an otherwise "good" student which the schools will try to wash their hands of because the student ditched his or her chip while trying to play hooky, and who could possibly have foreseen that?

Oh, and then we'll need to spend more money still on studies to figure out what to replace the obviously ineffective tech with, and do the whole dance all over again.
We don't need more tech. We need schools that take their responsibilities seriously.

Folks, GPS based tracking is designed to determine and log location, time etc. Bullying and drug dealing for example can ONLY be effectively monitored in real time using video surveillance even in the bathrooms were this practice is rampant. The challenge comes when privacy in rudely violated especially with the ladies room. I'd go old school and hire a bathroom monitor who would, instead of dispense hand washing soap, lotion and fragrances like they do in up scale night clubs, simply ensure school handbook codes are not broken. An extra $1 a month per child would seal the deal, the $$ would come from some education tax hike. It would impact our unemployment woes, parents would be at ease when they dropped their kids off at school, child suicide numbers would go down, potential school shootings might be reduced, grades would improve, self esteem and confidence go up etc etc.

I say lock them in their room when they turn 13 and don't let them out until they are 21.

If they tracked during school hours then 1. Less kids skipping, 2. If someone took one of the kids they would possibly know sooner...

I'm for it..my daughter is really small for her age and has been bullied most of the school years since kindergarden if it prevents that well it would definitely be a blessing for my daughter...

Hi Laura- I am sorry your daughter has had a problem with bullies. More parents should take a more active role in not only teaching their kids about how wrong bullying is, but also how to stand up for smaller kids who are being bullied.
In the meantime, no matter what a child's size, it always helps to have large friends.

Kind of Big Brotherish and Orwellian, but eh, who cares? It's on their ID. Like said, it won't really do what it's designed to do. At least not that I can see. The problem with this is that it's kind of like a doorway to bigger, more intrusive stuff....

First, it would be better to put this device on our state politicians' .Someone like Republican senator Bob Balfour who billed the state for sessions that he didn't even attend.Also we could keep track of their movements with lobbyists. Anything coming out of Texas for education or students tends to be right-wing ;i.e., textbooks that teach creationism and minimize the teaching of evolution and incorrect information on sex education.

*eyeroll* So much for this discussion.

And why do this?

George - I wouldn't pay too much attention to bloggers who use the words "dumb butt."

Maybe I should start using the word "dumb butt" and then my input cannot be construed as "diarrhea."