Snitch-chips embedded in UK school's uniforms
Glyn sez,
Children are being tracked by micro-chips embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a secondary school.Link (Thanks, Glyn!)The devices are used to monitor pupils' movements and register their arrival in class on the teacher's computer. Supply teachers can also be alerted if a student is likely to misbehave.
The chip connects with teachers' computers to show a photograph of the pupil, data about academic performance and whether he or she is in the correct classroom.
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"The chip connects with teachers' computers to show a photograph of the pupil, data about academic performance and whether he or she is in the correct classroom."
But can it confirm they are wearing the correct clothes?
The first thing I would do (and would have done) is remove the chip from my uniform. This is really troubling and offensive.
I'm kinda cool with the chip being used to determine if I'm at school/on the campus, but only for security/safety reasons - no more!
This is student profiling and labeling. What kind of education are you going to get if there's a flashing red box on your record saying your a troublemaker, or slow learner, or emotional problems?
David B.
So collaborate with your friend one seat over, and bring his shirt tucked into your backpack when he wants to skip.
I mean, really. "Mischief managed," and all that.
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Snitches get stitches. Brick yoself fool!
England gets scarier everyday. It's odd how they can so easily ignore the slow drip of fascism into their lives. o.O
England gets scarier everyday. It's odd how they can so easily ignore the slow drip of fascism into their lives. o.O
What? It's not like all those CCTV cameras are actually functional. "80% of CCTV pictures are of such poor quality they are no good for police purposes, and most cameras are in the wrong places to help in fighting serious crime or terrorism, according to a joint Home Office and police report yesterday."
no dark sarcasm in the classroom?
Big brother ain't got a look in mate, I reckon that people in Iraq, Afghanistan and all the other countrys we are trying to "liberate" are already a damn site freer (is that a word?) than we are now.
(Just remember this next time you decide to have a sneaky nose-pick or relieve an itchy buttock - you are probably being observed by at least 1 camera.)In one street in York, there are at least 27 cctv camera's, not bad you might think until you find out that the whole street is less than 50 mtrs long!!! Ironically, it seems the only time you aren't on camera in this country is if you are unfortunate enough to be a victim of street crime!
The UK cameras are in the streets and other public areas, so it's not as though they'll see anything that can't be seen by any person who happens to be looking in the same direction. And when I say "streets" I mean the high streets, the shopping areas; we're not talking about the routine surveillance of residential areas as yet.
Much more worrying to me would be if the UK decided to follow our American cousins in allowing widespread data-mining of the citizenry by government TLAs and corporations with enough money. The CCTVs can only record my public face, a panopticon society based on ubiquitous data-mining can make a disturbingly good stab at mapping my private life too.
What is a supply teacher? Someone in charge of art supplies?
I would have been TSA'd out of school if anyone had read my chip had it been available when I was in High School. I skipped most of my "F" level required classes (Attending all lectures, aceing all the tests and getting permission from the teacher to leave) and spent most of my High School life in machine, woodworking, auto shop or in the library doing engineering research for a possible future career. I would have spent it in electronics, but we had a crap teacher who thought that high volume stereo listening and dumbed down tests were all that was required for an education in electronics technology. The required classes were all taught at the level required to pass all the "D" grade students, so was so much repeat that I wish I could have just taken the senior year classes as a freshman and not wasted three years times three periods (not counting the time I skipped out for shop and library). Of course all this time not being spent in the proper assigned educational detention areas would have brought me to the attention of the administration as a subversive who truly believed Mark Twain's injuction "Don't Let Education Get in the Way of Your Learning", and would have probably led to me getting expelled and sent to reform school under this current UK school's administrative mindset.
Wouldn't the first time you washed the uniform fry the chip? Of course, if that doesn't work, there's always the microwave! Wait, even better, tin foil!
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It's a *voluntary* science project, which the source article from the Times eventually says but the linked blog doesn't. Hungerhill specialises in science and technical studies although it is still a state (or public for those of you in the US) school. So they're just developing budding Kevin Warwicks.