High School Student Sues against having to wear an RF ID Badge

[Accountable]

This is in my city but a different school district. I was going to try to steer it toward the legal issues of the case, but figured I'd just toss it out raw instead, and respond later.

A federal judge Tuesday ruled that Northside Independent School District can transfer a student from her magnet school for refusing to wear her student ID badge to protest a new electronic tracking system.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/ed...ISD-tracking-system-4176148.php#ixzz2HTkNlFbd

 

[Dana]

Depends if the school has an open door policy and kids can leave school when they don't have classes. I know that some schools do. What a student does on their own time between classes is none of the schools business and so they should not have to wear it but if you have the be a full time student on school grounds at all times you have no real excuse not too, your there for school. You're not an adult yet and you're there to learn, not play hooky or goof off.

 

[porterjack]

state funding is partly based on attendance

that, imho, is why they track the movements

they also offered to let her wear a badge without a chip. She refused, that is why they are allowed to force her out, havinmg made a resonable attempt to accommodate - i think she should have accepted the offer

i hate tracking chips - smacks of big brother and we know of course that there is likely not going to be strict enough safeguards in place to protect the data collected by said tracking devices

 

[Alien Allen]

as long as it is only used while on school premises I have no big problem with it.

seems like a huge expense that could be dealt with by other methods though.

my kids school had an automated phone bank that would call the house if the kids did not show up.

 

[Accountable]

they also offered to let her wear a badge without a chip. She refused, that is why they are allowed to force her out, havinmg made a resonable attempt to accommodate - i think she should have accepted the offer

The questions I have are did they require ID badges before this one with the chip, and did she refuse back then as well. But then I wonder if that really matters. I mean if she learned/discovered something recently that changed her opinion of the ID cards, then previous actions wouldn't count so much, would they?

Also, this is a magnet school. She doesn't have to attend and they don't have to accept her. Fine. But what happens if this was a public school?