U.S. Public Schools- what' they've become!

[Guest guest]

OMG! Look what's happening in U.S. Schools right now! It's like a Surveillance Totalitarian State! In some U.S. schools, RFID chips are now being used to monitor the attendance and movements of children while they are at school. The following is how one article <spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/ethics/goodbye-roll-call-hello-rfids> recently described a program that has just been instituted at a preschool in California….

Upon arriving in the morning, according to the Associated Press, each student at the CCC- preschool will don a jersey with a stitched in RFID chip. As the kids go about the business of learning, sensors in the school will record their movements,

collecting attendance for both classes and meals. Officials from the school have claimed they’re only recording information they’re required to provide while receiving federal funds for their Headstart program.------------------------------All 50 U.S. states are now constructing federally-mandated databases that will track the behavior and performance of all public school students in America throughout their entire school careers. According to the New York Post, the Obama administration wants to use the information that is gathered for a wide array of purposes….

The administration wants this data to include much more than name, address and test scores. According to the National Data Collection Model, the government should collect information on health-care history, family income and family voting status. In its view, public schools offer a golden opportunity to mine reams of data from a captive audience.---------

Our children are being programmed to accept the fact that they will be watched and monitored constantly. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending large amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools all across the nation so that government .....can closely monitor what our children are eating [saying, gathering data via facial recognition technology, etc].-----------Many

public school sex education classes have totally crossed the line. Instead of just “educating†children about sex, many sex ed courses are now “indoctrinating†children about sex. One recent example

of this was detailed in the New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/opinion/does-sex-ed-undermine-parental-rights.html?_r=2>

IMAGINE you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and

his classmates were given “risk cards†that graphically named a variety

of solitary and mutual sex acts? Or if, in another lesson, he was encouraged to disregard what you told him about sex, and to rely instead

on teachers and health clinic staff members?

That prospect would horrify most parents. But such lessons are part of a middle-school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system’s newly mandated

sex-education classes. There is a parental “opt out,†but it is very limited, covering classes on contraception and birth control.

[Guest guest]

I think video cameras in all rooms are a good idea. I think I have the only child with autism in my child's class that comes home and tells me everything that happened (it's his OCD in action!! However, I never got this much info. from my son with DS) at school and it's kind of scary. I actually have parents from the class emailing me to ask me and I can ask my son if certain things took place. The staff knowing that my son will tell me everything has put them in action to make improvements.

No, I wouldn't like a monitor attached to my child though.