Public Schools’ High-Tech Spying on Kids

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School officials in Bay Shore, Long Island (New York) recently purchased eight “Polar Active” monitoring devices to electronically monitor students. Schools in St. Louis and South Orange, New Jersey, are doing likewise. Bay Shore superintendent Peter Dion says the devices inform or motivate students by giving them immediate feedback about their fitness.
But John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, says schools “attaching devices to people, tracking their vital signs, and watching … what they eat and what they’re doing, which is really none of anybody’s business,” is comparable to an electronic concentration camp. “Even with parental approval on this, I think this is still a very dangerous way to go.”

He says he is fearful for the future of these and other students “because what they’re being taught is the government can do this. And at the same time, the schools are not teaching the Bill of Rights to kids so that they know that they can object to this,” he notes. “So what we’re doing is we’re teaching a whole new generation of people that this is what the government can do and should do.”

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  • stevor

    Kind of like an ankle bracelet that criminals get. Sure, some kids with a record of misbehavior might be conned into using these, but I don't think it's good that all kids use them. It's too close to training them as something that is normal instead of thinking that it could be Big Brother.

    • Myrtlelinder

      Is this the beginning of forcing children to spy on their parents and report back to the enemy as did Hitler. WW!! starting all over, again. Wake up,America!!!! This is the enemy!!!.

  • http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ Silas Longshot

    Exactly what this is, conditioning the future citizens to be USED to govt being right up their backsides as a normal thing. You folks with kids in federally mandated public indoctrination centers, formally known as 'schools' need to get your heads around just how much the 'education system' is messing with your kids.

    Click the name, prepare now.

    • Phillip in TX

      This is one of the reasons why my wife and I are home schooling our children.

  • wisdomcries

    Sadly progressive and ignorant parents, that don't understand the big picture, embrace this. Government has replaced parenting and the parents are more than happy to excuse it.

    • Phillip in TX

      That's because a lot of parents use the "public indoctrination centers" (formally know as schools) for a free baby sitting service! If the school systems were businesses, they would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

  • TOO INFORMED

    The public fool…school system is nothing more than Hitler did…brainwashing. Most parents are smart, kids can and will be fooled by their government. If you can't stop the adults from proper action to protect OUR Constitution, brainwash our children; after all…they ARE the next generation. After all is in place, the black lack-boots will march in and rip up the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence and the brainwashed students will rejoice with the false hope of a "New World Order".

  • Big Ugly

    If "WE THE PEOPLE" monitored the "government" as much as the "government" monitors "WE THE PEOPLE" – the "government" would be crying tears of blood.

    • Myrtlelinder

      We know enough about rash, illegal activities, to to bring it down, already, if only we had someone to represent us, like a Senate, or a Congress, who are the ones to keep everything in order. They would have to charge themselves. So what, if we should spy and learn of other illegal actions, abuses of the law to whom would we report???

  • D.J.

    More conservatives should be running for their local/state school boards to object to things like this, and monitor what's being taught in schools. States can REFUSE federal money, and teach what the parents want their kids to learn. What states don't seem to realize is that by the time they jump through all the hoops of requirements to get the federal money, the net result for the state is sometimes actually LESS money (and less REAL education, not just indoctrination). It sounds great to get extra money, but actual calculations should be performed to determine all the costs related to meeting the requirements, and whether the requirements are actually something parents want.

    • James T. Thompson

      Since when do the schools care what the patrents want? The schools think they know what's best for the kids and NOT the parents. Either home school your kids or place them in parochial schools (Catholic or Christian).

  • Harry

    This is almost as bad as the Pa. school that was spying on a student by use of his laptop.

  • Carol

    You know when I went to school (just after the ark landed) the teachers had absolute power over the children and our parents signed a letter that what ever the teachers had to do to keep the children in line that is what happened.

    Furthermore the teachers had paddles on their desks in plain sight and when the class started they would always announce that this talks so the class would come to order and it would remain in order and they also knew of the letter the parents signed and you would be amazed how much actual learning went on because the teachers had total power.

    The students weren't spied upon but the school knew where the students were and that had better be on the way to next class and if they decided to leave school the parents were told and right away they were returned and then they got into big trouble so they simply didn't do it so to me that is the way schools should be run today.

  • Lois MacLaren

    Back in the days of One Room School Houses – which were overseen entirely by parents – the kids KNEW more in the third grade than the average high school "graduate" knows when they "graduate" from one of today's "warehouse" schools. This sort of thing would NOT be happening if the One Room School House had remained the "norm" in American education!

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