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Telp-- not really. The application may or may not make you shudder, but the idea and invention are wholly typical of American ingenuity.
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The way the superintendent went about this does not inspire confidence or trust. If I were a parent of a student in this school, I would be in front of the school board demanding the superintendent's resignation on the simple grounds that he has lost the trust of the parents. That no-one would believe a word the man says about how safe or beneficial this technology is by virtue of the fact that he did the whole deal behind their backs. Period. He's displayed an amazing lack of understanding of who he works for and either the experiment ends or he leaves.
How's that for "over-reacting?" It's not so much about the technology as it is about being responsible and responsive.
As for being freaked out by it, I suspect that if parents had been consulted in advance, they might think it was benign or, more likely a waste of money.
Think about this...a child in elementary school is given a card to wear that costs real money to replace. The kid comes home without it... Ooops. Lost it.
Parent pays to replace it? Not THIS parent.
I'd very soon tell the school to have the teachers collect the tags for safekeeping if I were responsible for my first grader not losing it.
How stupd is this idea, really.
I mean, kids play on the playground. It will get broken. It will get lost.
And why wouldn't the kids trade them? Sounds like fun.
Would the school bullies take away my kid's tag and then I've got to pay for it.
I mean, the practical problems are just amazing in their simplicity and their pervasiveness.
I'd start by asking why we don't spend the money on a human who could improve the education at the school. Surely there must be something we could improve before wasting money on this.
Then, I'd probably want to investigate the dealings between the superintendent and the person selling this equipment. Are they buddies? What process was used to make this decision. Was the usual bid process followed? Why wasn't the school board in on the decision? Was there a meeting I missed???
Ah, this could provide years of fun for someone to obsess over.
I suspect a few people would be very worried about their jobs/re-election before it was all over.
quote:``Technology scares some people it's a fear of the unknown,'' parent Mary Brower told the newspaper before the meeting. ``Any kind of new technology has the potential for misuse, but I feel confident the school is not going to misuse it.''
The superintendent does not deserve this woman's trust.
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