RFID

Brittan Elementary School required students to wear RFID tags around their neck as they attend their classes. The main purpose for this was to make roll-call much easier and reduce the time it takes in the morning. Also, teachers are able to track their students with their every move on campus. The way the RFID works is that students have chips embeded in their ID cards and as they enter the classroom they are continously scan by a device hanging by the door. The teachers, then would have a head count by receiving the information into a wireless component.
"A small-town school in California has become the latest to mandate that students wear RFID-based ID cards when on campus. According to Brittan Elementary School officials in Sutter, a rural farming community, the tags have been implemented to simplify attendance-taking and reduce vandalism. In addition to tracking students in classrooms, the school's principal wants them tracked in bathrooms and locker rooms. Parents and the ACLU have raised privacy and civil-liberties concerns. Some have also questioned the financial relationship between the school and the cards' manufacturer, which is paying the school to try out the cards and offering it commissions on future sales to other schools. However, the principal, Earnie Graham, has another explanation for student objections. "You know what it comes down to? I believe junior high students want to be stylish. This is not stylish," he said. Okay, guess they'll have to switch to implants, then."