RFID tracking tags for students in school
11:34 AM Posted by ukmad
This could set off a controversy over freedom and privacy but the students of Love Dale Central School will have to wear a radio frequency tag around their necks so that schools and parents can keep track of them all day. A
‘pioneering’ practice, perhaps, since more animals than people have been marked out for tracking until now.
The card called Keeptrack will have all the information at regular intervals be sent as an SMS as when he or she left school. At school the same mechanism will will serve as an identity card and help keep tabs on attendance, academic performance as well as movements.
The school says that the system is affordable and was needed for children’s safety and security given the long distances they have to commute to get to school and back home.
How it works: Students wear the RFID device — a card with a chip and a unique identification tag — around their neck. A reader installed at the school records a student’s arrival, and subsequent movements, passing it on to a central computer. Messages are then generated automatically and sent to parents and others.
February 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM
This is a huge privacy issue.
It is also an issue that is being forced on parents by a politician out of control & out to satisfy his personal vanity at the expense of parents. No parents were consulted before this system was forced upon them. Best of all, this nonsensical system works only if your child travels in Love Dale's school bus. Then the question is - do children get lost in the school?
February 11, 2010 at 1:17 PM
I think its a good start.
Attendance (via name roll-call) has always been an established practice in schools. This system just seems to automate the same process, where is the privacy issue?
Also, I believe it will save time for teachers since they will no longer need to take manual attendance and can focus time saved on teaching.
February 3, 2011 at 6:54 PM
I think what Love Dale has done is a futuristic idea. Parents ARE concerned if their son has reached school. I am a parent and have a Kid in Mumbai. I know the pain if I dont get the update...every parent does. Kids are Kids. There is no privacy issue here.