in Houston, two
school districts are requiring students to wear electronic tagging badges
formerly used on cattle.
The badges “improve security and increase attendance rates, a figure
that’s important because some school funding is tied to attendance.”
Students are often attending a different school, while marked absent,
and these devices allow funding models to more accurately flow funds.
These devices impose a novel degree of surveillance on young adults,
observing where they go...
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