Argumentative Essay On Radio Chips
Some school districts around the United States are considering putting tracking chips in their students I.d. cards. I have to disagree with this idea for many obvious reasons. With all the new technology out there it would not be difficult for anyone to hack into the schools system and find out the locations of any student. It’s an invasion of privacy and goes against the first Amendment rights. A system to keep track of that many students would be very expensive for schools with low budgets.
A school in San Antonio Texas administrators have put into action a one-year pilot program that puts locator radio chips in student ID badges. Parents are in uproar about the school's decision to put tracking devices on their children and then forcing …show more content…
Yearly to continue the program the school will have to pay around $136,005, this number can change anytime with new students coming to the school and with a budget of 1 billion dollars, the school was implementing put school officials within handout distance of nearly $1.7 million in state government funding. The tracking devices are very expensive and very unnecessary if truancy is a problem in this school then it’s the school’s job to crack down on hall sweeps and monitors. Despite all the talk about "safety," the school district was more than happy to undercut the entire stated purpose of the Smart ID in order to keep Hernandez and her family from speaking out against the program
Students have protested by leaving the Id at home or in their lockers. Andrea Hernandez a 15-year-old student at John Jay Science & Engineering Academy in San Antonio’s Northside school district , has been wearing her old ID as a way to have an Id without being tracked. The school's policy is a student must have an Id on their person at all times while on school grounds, she is still following the policy while avoiding the tracking chip. “It’s an invasion of my privacy,” she said. Personally I agree with Andrea, it is a huge invasion of privacy and goes against the students
A school in San Antonio Texas administrators have put into action a one-year pilot program that puts locator radio chips in student ID badges. Parents are in uproar about the school's decision to put tracking devices on their children and then forcing …show more content…
Yearly to continue the program the school will have to pay around $136,005, this number can change anytime with new students coming to the school and with a budget of 1 billion dollars, the school was implementing put school officials within handout distance of nearly $1.7 million in state government funding. The tracking devices are very expensive and very unnecessary if truancy is a problem in this school then it’s the school’s job to crack down on hall sweeps and monitors. Despite all the talk about "safety," the school district was more than happy to undercut the entire stated purpose of the Smart ID in order to keep Hernandez and her family from speaking out against the program
Students have protested by leaving the Id at home or in their lockers. Andrea Hernandez a 15-year-old student at John Jay Science & Engineering Academy in San Antonio’s Northside school district , has been wearing her old ID as a way to have an Id without being tracked. The school's policy is a student must have an Id on their person at all times while on school grounds, she is still following the policy while avoiding the tracking chip. “It’s an invasion of my privacy,” she said. Personally I agree with Andrea, it is a huge invasion of privacy and goes against the students