wez Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Court authorities in Texas will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring. But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students' privacy. Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio-area school districts — likely to be mostly high schoolers — will wear the anklets during the six-month pilot program announced Friday. She said the time the students wear the anklets will be decided on a case-by-case basis. "We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate," Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. "We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don't want to see the latter." Penn said students in the program will wear the ankle bracelets full-time and will not be able to remove them. They'll be selected as they come through her court, and Penn will target truant students with gang affiliations, those with a history of running away and skipping school and those who have been through her court multiple times. "Students and parents must understand that attending school is not optional," Penn said. "When they fail to attend school, they are breaking the law." Penn said the electronic monitoring is part of a comprehensive program she started four years ago to reduce truancy. She cited programs in Midland and Dallas as having success with similar electronic monitoring measures. But Terri Burke, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said requiring students to wear the GPS bracelets full-time raises privacy concerns. "We're all for keeping kids in school, and we applaud any efforts to make that happen," Burke said. "But the privacy issue: What happens with the bracelet or anklet after school is out? Is that appropriate for the school or courts to know where and what this person is doing outside of school?" Asked why the students have to wear the ankle bracelet all the time instead of just the school day, Penn cited problems with runaways. "Sometimes, as I said, students are runaways. Parents don't know where they are," Penn said. "So it's for the safety of the child, as well as the safety of the community." Burke said truant students and runaway kids are different issues. Asked specifically about privacy concerns, Penn said she didn't have a comment. But, she added, her priority is "looking for the good of making these children accountable ... it's for the concern of these children getting an education." FOXNews.com - Truant Students in Texas to Be Tracked By GPS Anklets - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News Hey Teach, you guys gonna start locking up rotten 6 year olds who skip school and runaway, or just shoot em? Quote
ImWithStupid Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 Since they are "breaking the law" by being truant and are doing this because the kids will likely do other crimes or end up incarcerated later. I think they should not chance them breaking into someones home, like Hero Joe's neighbor or anything, and just shoot 'em for being truant. Nip this behavior in the bud. Kill 'em all! Quote
wez Posted August 23, 2008 Author Posted August 23, 2008 I agree...or they should just implant a chip under the soft spot in their skull at birth because most likely, they'll "break the law" at some point anyways.. That way, they wont be able to remove it either once the bone grows in.. Yeah, might as well just kill em and save Zero Joe the trouble and make life safe for lawn ornaments everywhere. Plus, I'm sure you guys don't have the money for new prisons. Bullets are way cheaper. Quote
wez Posted August 23, 2008 Author Posted August 23, 2008 "We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate," Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. "We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don't want to see the latter." Those are the only choices, eh? What a fukking genius. Wouldn't want em growing up to be criminals like Martha Stewart, Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay, and GW... Quote
hugo Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 The fact is a large number of jobs do not require an education beyond 6th grade. Let the dumbasses drop out so the other kids can learn with less interference. We don't need universal secondary education. Quote The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison
wez Posted August 23, 2008 Author Posted August 23, 2008 The fact is a large number of jobs do not require an education beyond 6th grade. Let the dumbasses drop out so the other kids can learn with less interference. We don't need universal secondary education. But then we couldn't tell them what to think.. The little bastards might think they have some God given right to food and stuff.. Quote
hugo Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 But then we couldn't tell them what to think.. The little bastards might think they have some God given right to food and stuff.. You don't have no right to food. Quote The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison
ImWithStupid Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 The fact is a large number of jobs do not require an education beyond 6th grade. Let the dumbasses drop out so the other kids can learn with less interference. We don't need universal secondary education. They are probably trying to make these kids go to school so they don't get in trouble with GW's dumb ass "no child left behind" regulations, that may caused them to lose money for the school district. Quote
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