Washington’s Puyallup School District spent $38,695 on devices that would map the veins in a student’s palm, and then use that data as a school lunch account identifier.
“To hear those words vein recognition program… it’s very invasive to me,” she said.
The district ended up ending the program because of parent backlash.
But as usual Europe is way ahead of us in Orwellian creepiness.
The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”
The system requires pupils to press a finger against a machine which converts the print into biometric data.
This can then be used to identify individual pupils accounts.
“We will also be able to monitor what children are buying to make sure they are eating a healthy diet.”
That’s the endgame obviously. First a ban on kids sharing lunches because of “allergies”. Then total monitoring to be followed by smart trash cans.
And while we’re still talking about kids, for the social planners the classroom is a model of society at large. The school is a miniature society and much of the creepiness we’re seeing today in society at large originated in schools. Which means that the creepiness in today’s schools, paranoia, lockdowns, white privilege education, total monitoring, thought crimes, are coming to society at large.