The Privacy Debate… for First Graders?
filed in Nero's Fiddle on Oct.03, 2007
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Picture a seemingly endless line of children, all dressed in the same clothes, the same muted tones — shuffling silently toward a single cashier as dollops of food are plopped in segments on their identical gray plastic trays.
Now, as they reach the cash register, they scan their fingerprint across a keypad, one child filing after the next, and then exit without a word as the “cashier” watches.
Some pessimistic vision of a children’s prison in a dreary futuristic novel? Hardly. It’s a scene that plays out daily at elementary schools across the country, as children barely old enough to comprehend the process they’re going through are filed and categorized through a system increasingly designed for standardization.
