Texas Schools Punish Students Refusing Microchips
A “Big Brother” alert via The College Fix.
A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.
Since October 1, students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, have been asked to attend class with photo ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to track every pupil’s location. Educators insist that the endeavor is being rolled out in Texas to stem the rampant truancy devastating the school’s funding. If the program is judged successful, the RFID chips could soon come to 112 schools in all and affect nearly 100,000 students.
Students who refuse to walk the school halls with the card in their pocket or around their neck claim they are being tormented by instructors, and are barred from participating in certain school functions. Some also said they were turned away from common areas like cafeterias and libraries.
Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay, said educators have ignored her pleas to respect her privacy and told her she cannot participate in school elections if she refuses to comply with the tracking program.
Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible’s apocalyptic Book of Revelations. When she reached out to WND with the school’s response, though, she said that she was threatened with not being allowed to vote for her school’s homecoming king and queen for disobeying the student ID rule.
“I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID,” Hernandez told WND. “I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years we were in school. He said I needed the new ID with the chip in order to vote.”
After Hernandez refused to wear an RFID chip, WND reported that Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo issued a statement to the girl’s parents: “We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.” If she is allowed to forego the tracking now, the repercussions will be harsher than just revoking voting rights for homecoming contests once the school makes location-monitoring mandatory, he argued.
“I urge you to accept this solution so that your child’s instructional program will not be affected. As we discussed, there will be consequences for refusal to wear an ID card as we begin to move forward with full implementation,” Galindo wrote.
The girl’s father, Steve Hernandez, told WND that the school was somewhat willing to work with his daughter, but said that the family is unwilling to “agree to stop criticizing the program” and publically endorse it.
Comments
My dad’s spidey sense in tingling right now.
Okay, pretend for a moment that a bad guy stalker rapist reads about this.
So, here is just one evil scenario …
RFID chips are detectable, right. So, he learns how to detect them and then set up a camera nearby the school recording everyone coming off campus until he sees the girl of his sick dreams and isolate her to her RFID.
Now he can track her. Now he can set it up so that he can lie in wait until she is coming close. He can even determine if other students are near her who could thwart his evil plan.
… End of scenario
Okay, hope I have made my point. The young woman who refuses to carry an ID that can track her has every right to be concerned about her privacy being violated.
The law of unintended consequences is that those RFID chips can be used just as easily by someone to harm the students as those who argue they are trying to protect the student. They not only become traceable, they become targetable.
If I were the dad of a daughter ( I have two boys ), I would be freaking out right about now with concerns for her safety and an administration that is clueless.
Or…
If he were bent of death and destruction he could simply steal one of those IDs and waltz right into the school, secure in the knowledge that the tracker had identified him as a student who belonged in the building.
Do people who make these decisions ever bother to think?
Nuts. “bent ON” not “bent OF”
“YELLOW BADGES AND MICROCHIPS”
There are those still alive, who remember their past
And the scheme that would have ended in death
By an evil so great we destroyed it at last
When whole ARMIES gladly gave their last breath (1)
“It’s just a small patch”, the Nazis declared
As they quietly plotted and planned,
But this “helpful suggestion” of a “token” to wear
All too soon would become a command (2)
“These are dangerous times, so let’s make you safe”
“And we mean well,” they purred with a smile”
“If you’ll just get onboard, you will find it won’t chafe,
“And this set up could well start a new style”
So they all got their “markers”—all so tiny and bright,
And they all felt “quite safe” ‘til they learned,
That this “little device” with a “purpose so right”
Sent their families to hell TO BE BURNED
NO rights reserved. Copy freely. No child of mine would ever be subjected to such a scheme.
(1) Casualties for the European WWII operations were 213,407; for the Pacific, 162,525. Living given willingly to stop the greatest evils the modern world has ever know.
(2) The infamous “yellow patches” required of Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II were an example of a “sumptuary law”—intended to regulate society’s goals and morals. They have been used for centuries to and control certain groups and individuals. They often begin with a benign or innocent, or even good purpose, but they almost always become rules to stigmatize and control. They are evil. Wars have been fought to prevent such horrors. Entire generations have offered their lives to be FREE of such restrictions. In my wrath, if I lived there I would declare: NEVER AGAIN!
EVEN NOW, with Sharia law creeping into our free nation, the peril of “yellow patches with ‘C’ for Christian” is a threat. THESE “ADMINISTRATORS” HAVE ANNOUNCED TO ALL THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE INCOMPETENT–AND CAN ONLY “RULE” (LIKE THE TYRANTS AND DESPOTS THEY ARE) WITH INTIMITADATION, THREAT, AND FEAR! Damn them all! (“Strong letter follows.”)