Schools Tracking Students

Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas has announced that they will be tracking their students, from now on.

Tracking chips have been placed inside all student IDs and the district says that it will make the schools safer.

"Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose “smart” ID card. Parents entrust us with their children and expect that we always know where their children are; this technology will help us do that."

Jay High School and Jones Middle School will be the test grounds for the new system.

It is expected that the new system will make it easier to keep students from ditching classes.

School district officials hope that the higher numbers will bring in extra federal funding for the district.

"Through more efficient attendance management, schools can generate additional revenues by identifying students who are not in their seats during roll call but who are in the school and locate them."

Many parents and students are upset over the decision, feeling that it is a violation of civil rights.

The school district promises that the IDs will only work on campus.