Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
<i>Students need the lanyard to use the library or cafeteria, vote in school elections,</i><p>I graduated from high school nearly 10 years ago, we had ID cards with magnetic stripes.  I graduated from college with some additional voluntary coursework four years ago.  We had cards with magnetic stripes and QR codes.  Both worked in the function of identifying the student, and swiping in the mess hall as currency.  Quantity wasn't a problem even with a student body count of nearly 5500 in a high school, our student numbers started with 0000 and were (iirc) 18 digits long.<p>So here's my question: why was RFID aggressively pushed if tracking wasn't an explicit understated purpose, when there is tech perfectly capable of performing the duties outlined?