The NSW Department of Education has allowed Sydney high schools to use a fingerprint recognition system instead of wasting time with roll call class.
On tonight's National Nine News, Christine Cawsey (principal of Rooty Hill High) said that the system will be used when students arrive at school, go to the canteen and go to the library. Someone else (sorry, I didn't catch her name) said that it will help to monitor student behaviour.
Is this really just a way to make school operations quicker and easier or the latest idea borrowed straight out of 1984? I'm picking the second one, and what's even scarier is that only three parents of students at Rooty Hill High (the school it is being trialed at) have not given permission for the school to fingerprint their children.
It's going to be interesting to see if other schools embrace this Big Brother style technology, and how much resistance there will be to it. There was one man, on the News report who was in opposition to it, though I don't have any quotes from him.
The only news report on the net I have found about this so far is this: LiveNews.
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shudder.
was quite happy to stumble upon your blog this morning all the same. always reassuring in its way to come across others thinking in similar directions, even if its only on the interweb. i so often question the relevance of blogging at all (if you're interested, i submit my ideas to the virtual infinity on clickclackgorilla.com) what with the virtual world being so far removed from life and living it. all the same, at least it occasionally creates the opportunity for a chance meeting and exchange of ideas that otherwise might not have happened. here here.
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