[senco-forum] Should I be Concerned? ( Not SEN)

What do you feel? Has anybody any experience of such

From: Janet Barlow <janet.barlow at talk21.com>
>      What do you feel? Has anybody any experience of such
> a system? Am I being unnecessarily paranoid?

Be concerned. Be very concerned.

As a parent governor I successfully had it removed from my
sons' school. A quicker route would be to grow you childs
thumbnail a little long so they can 'accidentally' scratch
the screen of the scanner. Apparently they are very
vulnerable to such scratches.

My issue with these scanners is the message they teach
children. Schools should teach children the importance of
safeguarding their id. They should teach children to
question. To ask why. Citizenship should teach children to
challenge attempts to infringe civil liberties.

Schools with fingerprinting basically teach children to give
away their id unquestioningly. Such schools are softening
children up for id cards and the database state. These
schools make future society vulnerable to becoming a police
state.

Far fetched? Nowhere comes under an authoritarian
dictatorship overnight. It happens little by little, a bit
at a time. Often by people who do not realise what they are
contributing to until its too late (like the heads at these
schools).

Object now before its too late.

--
Mark Norwood
Assistant Headteacher
www.avssc.org

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