I thought the number was actually 616. It doesn't matter why she doesn't want to be tracked (political, religious, whatever), it's important that schools aren't used as "conformance camps". Schools are there to educate students and that is all they should be doing. Attendance tags are not in any way essential to teaching. (I personally think that mandatory dress codes are beyond their remit as well).

Thank you for fighting for our freedom. Too few people do. Best regards, mrjb

If you voluntarily enter someone's property, then they should have the right to set the terms of entry. If they want to put a sign up that says "no clothes allowed" then you had better get naked when entering their property. However, students do not voluntarily enter school. They are required by law to be there. Requiring students to give up rights because they entered your property, when you forced them to enter the property, isn't fair. But students are minors and are not granted the same rights as adults because they aren't as capable of accepting responsibility as adults. If some rights need to be restricted to maintain order - like drug sniffing dogs being allowed to check lockers without a warrent - then so be it but we should try not to over do it. This RFID thing is over doing it.

Whatever your position, you're ill suited to it and doing students a great disservice. Get out, now.

This is about ego not money. This is a student at a magnet school. If her attendance was poor, her grades would be poor. If her grades were poor, she would be removed with good reason. Someone is offended that she isn't complying with a policy detail and has taken their offense to an unreasonable extreme.

Expulsion is an indelible mark on a student record that can have negative, life altering effects and should be considered with great care, and only after all other options have been exhausted. Even with a seemingly simple school switch as this, university admissions committees will wonder. It is sure to reduce her college options. Therefore if the student is otherwise in good standing, her refusal to wear an ID badge resulting in expulsion cannot be argued by an honest mind to be warranted.

In addition, said mind would be for and not against parents fighting that bureaucratic extremism with whatever means of process is at their disposal. They are not seeking damages, this is not a "free lottery ticket" as your surmised, this is trying to stop a terrible injustice.

As indicated when you said you were upset with the lawyers, and as shown when you failed to identify what is the root of the matter, you responded to this post emotionally. I could nevertheless understand these things. There are an unfortunate number of frivolous lawsuits out there that do great harm and your feelings attached to that could mask the ego at play here.

What disqualifies you from your job is not that. You must seek other employment, for the greater good, because you treat the heavy handed, life altering, negative act so lightly. That is what is most fundamental here. This is an execution to punish a passionate cry for reason.

Sorry, but raising a generation of children that agreeably comply to carry a tracking device, is a popcorn fart away from creating a society where our government requires each and every one of us to carry a tracking device. Imaging the up side. No Crime goes unpunished, almost instantly. Nobody ever get's lost. You can find almost anybody for a price. You can manage traffic, and human resource requirement to a person.

Of course the government always knows where you are, what you're doing, what you're saying. Hell, this is a future that would have chafed Big Brother's ass. You want to see what happens when you reduce people to sheep. Witless, mindless working units. I'm sorry but you are talking about planting the seeds for a dystopian future for which I want no part.

A school should think of the children, yes, but not by limiting their freedoms and invading their privacy. A school should make sure those "threats" simply have no way of entering the school. That should be their priority, not tracking their every move like a bonafide Big Brother.

A public education is a right given to all students, regardless of any kind of circumstance...it doesn't matter what is going on, the student should be allowed to receive a free and appropriate public education. This has been demonstrated many times in the court systems.

Work is not a right...you have a choice whether to continue to work there or not. In most cases, students don't have these sane choices by the design of our school systems - either they put up with this public school BS, or de-enlist and pursue an education elsewhere. And they are legally entitled to the public education. If something in the public education environment conflicts with them, they should complain...and take legal action if necessary when the complaints fall on deaf ears. This is a right.. You, whom works in public education, should know that pointing towards the door and showing them there other option is not a solution.,,well, I guess it is a solution for most teachers in that they get rid of the immediate problem. Private educations are expensive...and you need resources to home school a child. Something the majority of parents in the public education system cannot afford, and shouldn't need to solely because the school system is being stupid.

So yes, the students and parents and lawyers should sue proverbial pants off the school system, because obviously they are making dumb decisions. With law suits comes staffing changes, and lessons learned. This is essentially a repeat of the 60's south when lawsuits were required to desegregate the public school system.

Want to improve our society? Start with our schools. Adding tracking measures to keep track of the "inventory" is not helping anything, other than making it apparent that the school system cares more about logistics than learning. There a billion better ways to do this instead of treating students like packages.

And besides, how long is it going to take a high school kid to figure out he can have some fun with a computer - or even just stuff his lanyard into the backpack of a friend. Dumb idea. Lawsuit needed. End of story.

It is a public school. School has only the rights the public allows it to. If the people are opposed to RFID tracking of their kids, the school has just lost their right to track them.

Where you are taught and tested on how to have no free will and give up any rights someone in authority asks for so that one day you can be a model slave, errr.... worker.

Business that require visible ID at all time tends to be in the sectors that screw up real bad (financial sector). Why is this a good example? Plus getting all kids to accept real-time tracking can be a precursor to a full-fledge police state Joseph Stalin would be jealous of. I am SO glad metal detactors and chip tracking students are not implemented in my country.

So the lesson to be learned is one of conformity then?

Its like cheating somehow!? The Samsung Galaxy III has sold more than the iPhone on its own. Although I do not think it is somehow cheating to sell more than one phone lol.

Well, if you read his blog, he mentions living with a 17 year old Amy and now a 20 year old Sam he's known for "1 and a half years"? Obvious this 67 year old loves teenage girls, which would probably upset a few fathers, and these are only the girls he's willing to admit to....