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Originally Posted by Elli
The world is a bigger place than it used to be. Back in the "good old days" the farthest your kid could wander was to the neighbour's farm or into town. Now they can hop a bus or train and disappear into the metropolitan landscape so easily. Even if kids don't mean to get into trouble, it's a dangerous place out there. If keeping tabs on them helps, I'm all for it.
It's up to the parents to decide what to do with the information, though. If they are able to find out from the RFID chips that their kid is skipping school, do they punish or let it slide? That's the real benefit: teaching the children. If the parents don't care, then the kids won't care and there goes society.
Ok, end rant. Back to my coffee.
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Wait a second. I am going on 38 now and as a kid leaving near the bay area I would like to object. I could of easily and actually did once spend a dollar and got myself from Concord CA to San Fransico CA via BART. Me and a friend cut school, went to San Fransico bummed around and spent almost all of our money. We did not have enough to get all the way home so we had to bounce back from Concord to Walnut Creek to get off (toll exit was cheaper there) and then walk back to our jr high (5th grade).
Now yes my parents would of found out about me skipping if I was tagged, though they found out anyways since they showed up to get me for an unknown doctors appointment that they were reminded of mid morning by doctors office and I was MIA. Regardless though this was just to point out that even almost 30 years ago it was just as easy to wonder way away.