Fingerprinting in schools.

rjt · 07-02-2007, 02:50 PM

new guidelines for schools state that schools are urged but will not be forced to gain parental permission before finger printing children, apparently they are fingerprinted so they can go on class registers. Whatever happened to a book of names which the teacher used to tick or mark a circle if the pupil is absent.

i take it I am not the only one to find something sinster in all of this?

Feldoon · 07-02-2007, 06:38 PM

I see something not inherently sinister; rather something that could easily become sinister.

Alas, let the Sons of Sheeple have their identities tracked. I try not to consent having my name and my fingerprints put together, regardless of the institution requesting it.

Besoeker · 10-02-2007, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rjt

new guidelines for schools state that schools are urged but will not be forced to gain parental permission before finger printing children, apparently they are fingerprinted so they can go on class registers. Whatever happened to a book of names which the teacher used to tick or mark a circle if the pupil is absent.

Then no doubt somebody else would have had to go through the book, collate the data for all pupils for all classes.
Surely a system that could do all that would have some merit?

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rjt Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aldershot Posts: 5,767 Party: Other	Fingerprinting in schools. new guidelines for schools state that schools are urged but will not be forced to gain parental permission before finger printing children, apparently they are fingerprinted so they can go on class registers. Whatever happened to a book of names which the teacher used to tick or mark a circle if the pupil is absent. i take it I am not the only one to find something sinster in all of this?

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07-02-2007, 06:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
Feldoon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,003	I see something not inherently sinister; rather something that could easily become sinister. Alas, let the Sons of Sheeple have their identities tracked. I try not to consent having my name and my fingerprints put together, regardless of the institution requesting it.