Student Fights Schools RFID Tracking
posted on November 21, 2012 by Philip Hodges18 Comments
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The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas has gone live with their “Student Locator Project” that keeps track of all their students with ID cards embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. The school district’s stated goal is to encourage maximum attendance in order to increase their revenue from the state government. While the program cost over $500,000 to implement and will cost over $100,000 annually to maintain, the district hopes to bring in an additional $1.7 million in state revenue if the program is successful in increasing attendance.
As with any Big Brother program like this, there are plenty of opponents. One such person is high school sophomore Andrea Hernandez, who refuses to wear the new ID’s on religious grounds. She has been told that if she does not participate in the program that there will be consequences. She won’t have access to the library or the cafeteria, and she won’t be able to purchase tickets for extra-curricular events. In the past, students have also been threatened with expulsion, fines, or involuntary transfers for refusing to be tracked by the program.
Authorities have tried compromising with Hernandez, telling her that she can wear the new ID except without the chip, but she refuses to do that as well because it gives the impression that she supports such a program. The Rutherford Institute has come to her aid in representing her and challenging the school district to stop forcing such a program onto Ms. Hernandez. In his letter to the school superintendent, Rutherford Institute’s president John Whitehead wrote that her refusal is her First Amendment right:
“As you know, students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate. An integral component of the First Amendment’s protection of free speech is the freedom of citizens to refrain from expressing solidarity with ideas to which they, personally, object…Ms. Hernandez objects to wearing the SmartID badge because, as school officials have admitted, her wearing the badge on her person (with or without the imbedded chip) is an expression of support for the program. Indeed, it is precisely this expression of unity and support that administrators have stated to be the rationale behind the requirement that Ms. Hernandez don the badge like all other students and staff. By coercing Ms. Hernandez to express solidarity with other members of the school community in supporting the Student Locator Project, school officials are violating her First Amendment rights.”
While I admire the Hernandez’s steadfast approach on this issue, I don’t think I’d even bother fighting it if I were in their position. The “Student Locator Project” would have been my cue to get out of government education. This case does however offer a small taste of what it will be like when our government requires its citizens to carry around an RFID chip as a condition of citizenship. If we were to choose to “opt out” of such a program, we would be barred from society, and our citizenship rights would be stripped.
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/8180/student-fights-schools-rfid-tracking/#ixzz2Cx4zfPf7
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americansonlyhere • 17 hours ago
Sounds like the mark of beast is setting upon us.
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oleinwi • 21 hours ago
Welcome to Orwell's 1984....now. Good Lord, is ANYONE OK with this, really? Heck, why not just implant them with the RFID's...oh, yeah, that might be just a bit too close to the mark of the beast...
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d rash • 14 hours ago −
The rest of the students at that school need to boycott those
benefits" such as the library, the cafeteria, and ALL after school extra curricular activities. Every student needs to refuse to turn in homework, take any tests, or even partake of any classroom discussions until this unconstitutional invasion policy is scrapped! NEVER back down from tyranny! NEVER!!
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cmorplante d rash • 13 hours ago
Yeah right. 80 to 90 percent of those kids and their families see nothing wrong with it.
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JennieWalsh • 16 hours ago
Get the Big Brother government organized crime syndicate OUT of education, period! Abolish the Department of Education, put the criminals and enemies of America OUT OF BUSINESS! See: k12.com see: Khanacademy.com
Stop the dumbing down and communist indoctrination of America's children!
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terri JennieWalsh • 10 hours ago
Amen..if that doesn't work-home schooling does!
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Julian DH • 17 hours ago
The mark of the beast is no among us. It is called RFID chipping. What will be next, branding upon our bodies? The school district is using god money as their motivator, but their motivations seem much more negative.To demand compliance using threats shows a much darker intent. What become amazing is the parents are not loudly demanding this stop. It seems a majority will comply, and by doing so will give away their family freedoms
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Coda • a day ago
I go to northside in san antonio. I was so shocked when I saw you writing about us. This is crazy.
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thomas • 17 hours ago
If people want to get out of Gov't school's, then partner with me and I will make all financed payment's for private education.
Thomas
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carpentersaprn • 12 hours ago
Why is it that Perry "says" he is conservative and yet he allows things of this magnitude occur on his watch. Countries are laughing at us, the Obummer camp is happily rubbing their hands together like not so many theiving mongrals just waiting as their master the great "O" himself makes the moves to remove our freedoms and plunge this once great country into the dark abiss of nothingness.
As for me and my house, we WILL serve the one living and true GOD.
And in regards to our guns.....dont even think about it.
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dad666 • 15 hours ago
Go Girl, NO ONLY NO BUT HELL NO. The Gubment does not ahve tyhe right to force us to do something we find in violation of our rights. Next they will wsant them in all Drivers licenses and ID cards
Go Home You Communists and I do mean NOW.
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US citizen • 11 hours ago
What a bunch of Socialists !!
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Dennis VanMeter • 14 hours ago
One more step toward total domination my our government, we are the laughing stock of the world. There talking and laughing at us on our stupidity on how we love our freedoms yet we allowed Obama to get back in office and he has already striped some of our right away and
will strip more in the next four years and will more then likely stay in office past wo16. One of two things will also happen the UN will have more and more control over us or the Muslim’s will or both.
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David McCall • 14 hours ago
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case does however offer a small taste of what it will be like when our
government requires its citizens to carry around an RFID chip as a
condition of citizenship. If we were to choose to “opt out” of such a
program, we would be barred from society, and our citizenship rights
would be stripped.
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/8...
This is just a taste of what is to come folks. The 'law' is already here. Ever hear of Obamacare?
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Silver Foxy Lady • 9 hours ago
With Texas wanting secede from the U. S. A. of America. That school district won't get subsidized anyway
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nik • 16 hours ago
Interesting. This is the doing of alleged conservative and one-time Tea Party darling Governor Rick Perry, not Obama or the education department or the liberals. Can't trust them either I guess.
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JennieWalsh nik • 16 hours ago
Rick Perry is a product of the Council of Foreign Relations, a branch of the Satanic neo-con globalist organized crime syndicate and deadly enemies of America. He is no friend to America, by any means, although he pretends to be.
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wtw • 8 hours ago
Well if parents would control their kids and make them go to school, it wouldn't come to this. I support it
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