stltoday.com — Fischer said NutriKids (aka Big Brother) would offer features parents had been requesting for years. One is the ability to see what students are ordering for meals, and another is a faster and easier payment method. Each students was asked to press his or her right index finger on the optical reader, which scanned the print. Each student scanned...
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Closed AccountJan 7, 2009
The district picked the finger scan system to solve the issue of students losing their lunch card:)
utnowJan 9, 2009
After scanning your physical makeup we've determined that your lunch should contain no more than one slice of bacon and wheat bread. Please remove your meal from the dispenser and have a nice day.
frostekJan 9, 2009
Of course if this had happened in the UK, we'd be hearing comments about how Orwellian it is here (supposedly).Not so much of that when the shoe's on the other foot though, hmmm?
silentboomJan 9, 2009
The sad part is that they will still require you to pay the taxes for other peopl's kids. It really is theft at gunpoint because you will be locked up if you don't pay it even though your kids don't attend public schools.
bartboy919Jan 9, 2009
What? They already do this at my school.
picturerainbowsJan 10, 2009
This is completely insane. It's bad enough that we allow the government to keep our thumb prints on file as we get a driver's license or a state ID at an adult age, but to force oblivious 8 year olds to fork over their fingerprints to be kept on record so they can get a damn lunch is absolutely ridiculous. This is just another way the government can find the nation's youth, separate them and ship more than half of them off to concentrations camps when people start invading schools and homes in New World Order.
perleeezeOct 17, 2009
This is already widespread in the UK.I objected to my daughter's fingerprint(s!) being taken for this reason and was treated like I was some kind of nut.At least I understand the issues that will be curbing our kid's freedom in the near future and am able to resist in an informed way.Sleepwalking into a nightmare of our own making...