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Should we allow finger printing of minors in our schools?

Easier registration, keeping track of library books on loan, saving time in the dinner queue, cashless classrooms preventing bullying - all reasons local education authorities have cited to validate a system for holding biometric data on the country's school children. But how secure is this data, and who ultimately holds control over how it is used?

Concerned parent Pippa King takes up the campaign in defense of our childrens' rights.

Campaign Blog: http://pippaking.blogspot.com/
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18 responses // Campaign against finger printing in schools

  • dammit! I thought it said 'Campaign Against Finger PAINTING In Schools'! I was all ready to sign up...
    BubbaParisFan
  • that is sick.
    Owwmykneecap
  • I doubt the schools would be able to pay for and maintain something like this. How about buying something that BENEFITS the kids going there and not spend money on something as USELESS as that.

    EDIT: just realized that it is in the U.K., and not the under-paid schools in the U.S., but my point still stands
    winnah
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  • Fingerprinting is something you do in the police station after you are arrested. Public schools are now just minimum security prisons.

    Don't worry Americans, fingerprinting in US schools will come soon, in fact it's already started in some cities.
    maasanova
  • The times they are a changing....and it sends shivers down my spine!!! Although, the reasons cited for starting such a program are reasonable, I cant help but think that any group authority should not have that type of information. It could so easily be misused.
    Whiteraven
  • No one ever listenes to kids. If an admin/teacher tells a student to be quiet, he or she must do so, or else he or she will get arrested. My high school days are only 3 years behind me, but i remember having no civil liberties whatsoever.

    US Public Schools: Training generations of compliant tax payers semester by semester.
    CarlosIsDown
  • Crazy in deed. My grandma always warned me about the code of the beast. The time soon come. Was she right?
    sweetnana
  • My old school did this. It slowed the line down because the scanners were cheap and didn't work well.
    SuperLayne
  • How surreal. Next their parents will be giving an iris scan in order to pick them up from school.
    vitalmaggi
  • Again, like the bluetooth story, I don't see the problem here. Frankly, why everyone is so scared of this sort of technology baffles me.
    kristianbrodie
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  • Can you imagine the hassle after art class, lunch or wet play in primary schools? 'No Timmy, wash the poster paints *off* your hands before registering on the scanner please'. Another school resource shortly to be consigned to the back storeroom along with marker-streaked smartboards and French accelerated learning texts..?
    purplefox
  • What's I don't like is that my school say the government will pay to implement the finger scanning system but will not pay for the same sort of thing but with cards. If I want a card I'll have to fork out £10 and then another £10 for a new one if I loose it!
    smileymango
  • follow the money... some corporation is planning on making big money implementing this technology nation-wide; it's a lot like weaponry. If you have it and stockpile it, eventually you have to find some inhumane reason to use it... or shall I say some inhumane reason to victimize the unsuspecting with it?
    Incredulous
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  • Um . . . 1984 anybody?
    KrebstarSB
  • here in the U.S. they are starting with the teachers first......
    melodyj

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