Reading, writing and ... biometrics
Thursday, April 8, 2010 Schools are not under a legal duty to consult parents before collecting biometric data, writes Karen McTigue for The Free Society, which means your child could be fingerprinted or iris-scanned without your knowledge.
Last week Hank Roberts addressed the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference in Manchester. “Parental consent should be compulsory," he said. "It is outrageous that children’s fingerprints can be taken without parental consent."
He added: “There has been a severe diminution of civil liberties and freedoms in this country and we face the danger of more and worse to come.”
Unfortunately, writes Karen, "Mr Roberts was defeated on his motion to oppose the use of biometric data.
"To ensure your child fully understands the implications of being fingerprinted, or iris-scanned, on their return to school, ... take a trip to the library and borrow a copy of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for them. Job done."
Full article HERE.
Reader Comments (3)
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers
They must have been politically infiltrated years ago..
No sane person would think this is a good idea.
Their in on it.
Although, Specky, last weekend the news was full of the teachers' conferences being held at which one of the pressing issues seemed to be the amount of power now wielded by children in schools' decision-making. The particular topic was their inclusion on recruitment/promotion panels in which adults were being denied work/promotion on the say-so of spotty teens who are, in law, minors.
Perhaps even the brainwashed are beginning to realise that this Government's policies invariably hit the disaster bullseye.
Can anyone think of one, just one, policy that's actually worked?
I'll give you the four things that I'm proud of having voted Labour for, Joyce. (Not that I'm suggesting they outweigh the negatives, obviously!)
Minimum wage; Civil Partnerships; repeal of Clause 28; and the Freedom of Information Act.