SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students’ privacy.
Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio-area school districts — likely to be mostly high schoolers — will wear the anklets during the six-month pilot program announced Friday. She said the time the students wear the anklets will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
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“We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate,” Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. “We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don’t want to see the latter.”
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 am
they sould move out of state if it came to being tracked like a a dog if you are in high school and it came to that you are better off quiting school I would have ran away from home and grown up get a job if I was in the place of something being put on my body I think the state can go to Texass hell anyways The state should not have a right to control peoples lives
schooling you can get it from liveing life afeter a few years the kid might wise up and go back to school but being forced you will not get any place with the kids to bad they did not try this to me I would just have taken it a part like a toy or sold it
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 am
I am quite familiar on how these systems work. These systems contain two radios. one Radio at 1575 MHz (GPS receiver) and the other at 1900 MHz (GSM or CDMA). The GPS radio pings for location based services with line of site and the GPSOne radio uses cell tower triangulation with no line of site to the sky. Then once location is calculated a GSM or CDMA data call is made that communicates with a central location.
In a nutshell, you have a cellphone and another radio (GPS receiver) in use full time attached to your developing children’s leg. It has been well established that excessive cellphone usage can cause cancer and developing children would be a bad place to have a cellphone that is operating in full power.
Now granted the manufacturer might set the pings to the server at a low rate, say every 5 minutes, but that would be equivalent to making a cellphone call for 10-20 seconds every 5 minutes.
Not the smartest thing to subject my child to if you ask me.
Here is a link to one of these personal trackers that I pulled off google
http://www.argonav.com/prod_pt.php
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 am
“Students and parents must understand that attending school is not optional,” Penn said. “When they fail to attend school, they are breaking the law.”
So, ‘you must be indoctrinated’ is the message.
Education used to be on a volunteer basis. Public schools have turned into baby-sitting and brain-washing centers where very little real education takes place.
No wonder no one wants to go.
Is it no surprise that private schools for the rich and powerful are the only institutions today in America that still truly educate?
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
This is why they make GPS jammers dumbasses. They jam cell and GPS for around 70 bucks, in a 10 meter radius. It is about time we the people started counter measures of our own..
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
They claim this is for high school students who are 16,17, 18. Seems radical, used to be you could drop out of school……Now its indoctrination or jailtime? that’s just fucking crazy. I do know why the parents arent revolting though….I gave my parents so much trouble at that age they would have welcomed a tracker with glee. Likely these are kids who are always getting into trouble, still, Im against it.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Do you know where you are?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5iCUBEUx4
God Bless America
GS
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
You are human beings not animals. People who do not attend school are not criminals. Use your head people.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
how dare penn say eduation or incarceration. its only a matter of time before we send our childern to the guluags to get both at the same time. ethier way the states objective is the same and thats to institutionalize the public…
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I want a GPS honing device for my Mother-in-Law. I’ll strap it on her fat ankel(do they come in xxx-large?) and have it set up so alarms go off when the bitch is even in the neighborhood. I’ll tell my ball and chain I’m leaving and going to the bar for a couple of hours. See there is always a bright side to every story.
August 24th, 2008 at 3:03 am
haha I used to live in Austin, Texas growing up. And I can say from personal experience, having been quite a truent little mofo when I was younger, that this will NEVER work. shit this has been going on for fucking ages, even when I was at highschool in Texas back then if you were truent enough times you got expelled and sent to an “Alternative Learning Centre” (ALC). haha you had to walk through the hallways with your hands behind your back at all times and be escorted to the toilet. Either way I will still say I learned EVERYTHING I know from reading books and researching shit myself. Public education taught me how to add and subtract, fucking brilliant!
August 24th, 2008 at 9:54 am
“jonny”, you should have stayed in school, or at least learned SOME THING. Constant spelling errors, little to no punctuation, I mean, wow. You really should have gotten an education.
But you didn’t.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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