"SUTTER, Calif. - The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will take away their children's privacy.
The badges introduced at Brittan Elementary School on Jan. 18 rely on the same radio frequency and scanner technology that companies use to track livestock and product inventory. Similar devices have recently been used to monitor youngsters in some parts of Japan."
This is a very good idea. But they have not gone far enough. They need to place this radio chip in a little tag that could be attached to the child's ear. This would prevent the children from losing or swapping badges. We could monitor everywhere the go, even later in life. It would help us chart the migration patterns of these children, and also give us some insight into their mating practices as they mature. It is possible there would be a bit of pain involved in attaching these tags, so we could shoot the children with a tranquilizer dart while the run around at recess. They would then be asleep when the tag is pinned to their ear lobe. They might one day wonder why they have a small orange tag on their ear, but we could quickly change the subject and give them a cookie. I am going to present this idea to my school administrator.
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