Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

Get kids trained early. Next put them into all adult ID cards and make it illegal to walk around outside without one. Police can just drive through a neighborhood and see who everyone is and their drones can just tag you and watch you move through your day. Don't have a chip on? Then get a forced iris scan like the US military does in Iraq and Afghanistan.<p>The future freaking terrifies me, especially how people just roll over and accept it.

The district offered to let her wear a badge that didn't have an rfid tag but she still refused. This case had nothing to do with rfid tags. The district said she had to wear an id badge and she refused saying that the badge represented the mark of the beast. If anything this is a freedom of religion case not an rfid case.

I think the title is misleading...<p><i>"The girl’s father, Steven, wrote the school district explaining why removing the chip wasn’t good enough"</i><p>The title should read "Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear ID Loses Lawsuit"<p>This case had little to do with RFID. It had more to do with religion.

Did it ever occur to the girl that wearing an identification lanyard is perhaps a security measure by the school to ensure only people permitted to be on the grounds are on the school grounds? I think the RFID chip is a great idea. It prevents people wagging and as mentioned prevents just anyone from walking into the school pretending to be a student. They presented a compromise of removing the chip and it wasn't good enough, there's no religious belief trespassing here just stupidity and defiance for school policy.<p>Here in Australia the public school I attended required me to wear an ID card (no RFID though) on a lanyard for security purposes so they could identify people who weren't supposed to be there. I don't see the problem because a couple of places I've worked at have required the same thing and all Government jobs also require a lanyard with ID displayed at all times.

Per the article, the school's motivation in adding an RFID tracker was to have more accurate reporting on daily attendance (leading to more federal funding). However, in an attempt to accommodate the student, the school district offered her the choice of wearing a non-RFID badge. I wonder how the school was going to detect her presence without the tag. If they were able to, then they shouldn't do RFID for _anyone_. If they are NOT able to(which I would think is likely), then why ask her to wear the plain badge without RFID? They should have just offered her an exception to make the the whole case go away!

Article is wrong. The student didn't lose the lawsuit, she lost the motion for an injunction that would prohibit the school from expelling her for refusing to wear the badge. The lawsuit is allowed to proceed.<p>IANAL, but the decision still looks crazy to me: It centers around Employment Division v. Smith, which is no longer good law federally or in Texas as the Federal and Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Acts were passed specifically to overturn that decision.<p>They create a new statutory right that forbids the government from using the powers in Smith. The court interprets the new laws to not forbid anything that would be allowed by Smith, which IMHO is not a credible reading of the law and pretty disrespectful of the Texas State Legislature's right to control the Texas school system.

Why does she just microwave the badge? Destroys the RFID but she is still wearing the badge. Another option is to use RFID blocking materials like several layers of aluminum foil.

Technology for technology's sake. But at least I can easily create box-shadows now or know my geo-coordinates at all times! PS - This article is on the frontpage of msn.com

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