i wish theyd done this while i was at school so i could have ripped it out of my clothes and screamed punk rock lyrics at the teachers, that would have been sweet

i run an organisation that, among other things, does inclusion work.. that is working with pupils who are at risk of exclusion from school.

a growing trend i have noticed is parents pulling their children out of school before they get excluded so that it doesn’t go on their permanent record. these are often families without the resources to provide home education. when this happens, agencies like ours, who are able to provide alternative education can no longer intervene as the conduit / channel of communication is cut

this kind of scheme will mean more of the most vulnerable children will miss out on more

a stupid scheme dreamt up by wnakers

i got a whole load of temporary exclusions in years where it doesnt matter if u work or not being excluded was brillaint , i got excluded for bunking once which i didnt see the sense behind didnt matter about your permanent record because this is south east london and every school here is awful, but tagging kids is not on really takes the fun out of not going to lessons if they can track you like a canadian goose

what the fuck?!?! taggin kids? i thought our school was bad with security guards/complete spiked fencing and cameras in every block and most classrooms, but this is another level!

surely there’s a fucking law against this?

they were trying to do this in the 1980s, but the technology for the tagging/tracking was too expensive.

My old high school had experimented with a pupil database and electronic registers for some classes (back in 1987 or thereabouts) but by the time I cracked the security on it the project appeared to have already been abandoned..

they introduced an electronic timetable mid-way through year 10 in my school… i can remember exactly when they sorted out the teething problems, as when returning to our next lesson, admin staff were there with a smug look on their face telling us “you ain’t getting away with it any more”

but thats the thing, cos it does actually work. sure, we all know its a loada bollocks, but to people who think we should clampdown on anythin and everythin, it works.

BromCom our register was called. before when paper registers were used, they may find out you were bunking off a couple of lessons, but 90% of the ones we missed we were fine. of course with an electronic register it flashes “[names of who’s missing] are not in lesson, they are registered here today” etc. and at the next lesson you get dragged out and busted. and if we missed an entire afternoon thinkin they wudnt bust us – they came and pulled us off our school bus, kept us after school.

now the cameras are fucking scary, you cant do anything. it seriously is a case of “shut up and do what you’re told”. i reckon every kid needs a bit of messin around, its just natural innit. but you cant do that shit anymore. on our last day we cut the wires of 3 cameras tho, every little helps innit

we wudnt have stood for it back at school but 95% would have, so we’d have had no choice really. either do it or fuck off.

the people on that daily mail site are even slaggin it off. i dont get who supports it – the DM is proper Tory, and they hate it. the lefties certainly wudnt support it.

what the fuuuuck

just because our Western countries don’t have overt population control doesn’t mean that every child born is loved and valued by society.

Kids are farmed these days, just like animals are. They are expected to be developed to a certain standard and within a certain time frame, those who do not fit in (unless they have supportive parents who are able to put in the extra time/resources required) are eventually dumped on the scrap heap.

barely any kids are loved and valued by society

but teachers tend to be some of the most supportive people ever, my headteacher was very much “throw them on the scrapheap” like you say but a lotta teachers were safe as

it may explain why he was headteacher and the others were not

goin back to my other point, who gives these schemes support? the DM tory lot hate it, the lefties hate it…

Bear in mind the comments on a newspapers net forum are often from the “opposition” rather than the core readership (who are prepared to spend money to read the newspaper) – the Grauniad’s “comment” forums are full of right-wingers..

There is plenty of support for these schemes from the traditional Conservative wing. To them it is a triumph for social conservatism and private enterprise (the teacher has set up his own private company to provide these systems to other schools)

if I were in high school today, I would find out what protocol the chips used, and create other random signals that would confuse the system, or stray data injected into the LAN would make it difficult to use the database 😉 – but unlike the 80s’ you’d actually get arrested, and I bet that kids aren’t taught in their ICT properly about how the technology really works..

unfortunately not, in ict kids are taught how to make stuff bold

tbh tho the kids i knew at school who had the know-ho to do that would have supported the idea of chippin pupils…

I think with allot of these civil liberties issues, the single case or issue in question, like this one, is on its own not like a massive coup or anything. So quite often its allowed to happen. But when you have 100’s or 1000’s of these tiny changes and infringments on our rights and liberties over a long period of time, you suddenly one day find yourself in a situation where they’ve all culminated to produce a very nasty situation.