Totalitarian Enslavement: GPS Devices For Truant Serf Students

San Antonio, TX (AHN) -- A new program to make truant and at-risk students wear ankle-bracelets fitted with a Global Positioning System is being piloted in four Bexar County school districts in the San Antonio area.

While some say it is a violation of student's privacy rights, Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace told My Sanatonio News it is a measure necessary to keep kids in school and out of jail.

According to Penn, the likelihood that students will end up in gangs, and ultimately in trouble with the law is exponentially greater if they do not finish high school. That's why the court mandated program is being tested.

Penn told the Fox news that she knows of about 50 students who will be forced to wear the ankle-bracelets, which are similar to the ones worn by convicts on house arrest. She will also impose the anklets on truant students who come into her courtroom. She said she will focus on students who have a history of truancy, have gang affiliations, or are runaways. The length of time the students must wear the ankle bracelets will vary depending on the case.

Part of the reason the program is being tested, according to Penn, is that attending school is mandated by law, so not attending school means breaking the law.

According to information provided by Bexlar county, truancy has increased from 14,000 cases in the 3004-05 school year to 20,000 in the 2007-08 school year.

On the flip side of the issue, Terri Burke, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas told the Associated Press that it is inappropriate for the court to know where the students are all of time when the main issue is making sure they are in school, as that is an unwarranted invasion of privacy.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7012042821

CovOps wrote:: it is a measure necessary to keep kids in school and out of jail.

No, it's only the former.

Totalitarian Enslavement: GPS Devices For Truant Serf Students

Totalitarian Enslavement: GPS Devices For Truant Serf Students

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