GPS to Track Truant Students?

[Gawain 0]

I don't know why I found this blurb on engadget.com other than perhaps the mention of GPS, but this is pretty retarded. If a parent is not in control of their children, sorry, it's the parent's responsibility. Join the PTA and tell the school to lock the back door and tell the parent to figure it out - read a book, attend a seminar, offer an incentive, whatever.

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Maryland considering GPS tracking for truant students
2007/02/12

Regardless of your personal opinion regarding the increasing use of so-called "Big Brother" tactics by the governments of the world, you've gotta hand it to the Maryland legislature for its sheer audacity here. "What, your kids won't go to school? We've got an idea, let's track 'em with GPS like the criminals they are!" Though perhaps parents will be delighted to learn that if Billy skips school too many times, an upcoming bill means they won't have to bother to do anything about it. According to Maryland Delegate Doyle Niemann, "They're not in control of their children. They take them to school, the kid walks in the front door and then out t he back door. It doesn't make any sense to continue to beat on the parents." Seems like the schools might try a bit harder to spot these kids in transit from front door to back door, but if they're proving this elusive already, perhaps GPS really is the only answer.

[Via The Raw Feed]

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[GQ_jumper 4]

Maybe if parents would actually raise their kids we wouldn't have this problem.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

[warpedskydiver 0]

PARENTS DON'T RAISE CHILDREN, A VILLAGE DOES.

This is how village idiots are created.