More Gov. intervention-1st they take our kids.

[moose]

1st they'll force our kids to wear those,
then they'll force truckers,
then every large citizen.

Parkway's use of fitness monitors raises privacy questions

..."The monitors measure activity by tracking every movement of the person wearing them. They display steps taken, calories spent and time spent at various levels of activity. An animated figure on the monitor indicates the activity level. A bar shows the target time for doing moderate to vigorous activity and the amount of time achieved at that level..."

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"...Later this school year, the district plans to collect data about activity levels and even sleep patterns for a week at a time. It will have the students wear the devices round the clock..."

"welcome to MecDee's, can you please plug your device so we can match you a meal ?"
"I'm sorry sir., you did not walked/sleep enough this week to deserve a big mack"...

 

[greg334]

Solution => end public schools

 

[layoutshooter]

Solution => end public schools

Good idea, and do it yesterday if possible.

 

[chefdennis]

Well come on now...the government needs this information so that they can better tell those that don't understnad how to take care of themselves and their kids...you know those that just aren't smart enough...its the governments job to take care of them and since they are a large enough base they will continue to let the government take care of them and as pointed out, the government will push further and further and harder into the working people to leverage their power and control more and more people....but hey, its all for the good of the people...cause the government knows better whats needed, because the people are just not smart enough or are too poor to educate themselves or to work themselves out of their situation....

"i am from the government, and i am here to Help You...."

 

[LDB]

Well, it takes a village you know.

 

[greg334]

Well, it takes a village you know.

Actually it does when you come down to it.

The public school system should be the village school system run and overseen by those of the village for the village's betterment. The village is responsible for those kids because the village is raising those kids, not some state agency.

No matter, people are used to this idea that education is a right that has to be fulfilled by those in the public sector when in reality if we take the approach that the school needs to provide the service to educate the kid and the right is the access with the money from taxes as the vehicle to provide the service, we will have better educated kids in the long run. This radical approach seems to work, leaving the decision up to the parents, not the school, having the money follow the kid and not the kid follow the money all seems to work for those who have been using that system for the past 100 years - France.