Parents Stop Biometric Hand Scanner Program At Public Schools
A school district in the state of Washington has stopped its use of biometric hand scanners at schools which uniquely identified each student after parents flooded a school board meeting last night to complain. Children had their hands scanned in order to pay for their lunches. ● Similar to a retina scanner, the hand scanners introduced by the Puyallup, Wash. School District identified the unique vein patterns in each student’s palm in order to deduct the lunch price from that student’s pre-paid school lunch account. “There has got to be other ways than scanning my kid to figure out who he is,” Tim Snyder, a father, said at last night’s school board meeting according to the News Tribune. This is not the first occurrence of a school district implementing invasive technologies which treat children like cattle. Last year, the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas forced students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School to wear RFID chips which could track their locations both inside and outside the school properties.