Someone remind me how having school identification cards is going to prevent the Littleton, and now the Santee shootings. In neither of these cases were the kids involved from outside of the school. If emotionally disturbed children are going to go on a shooting spree they seem to be doing it in their own schools where there are a plethora of people they don't like. The ID cards at South have your student's ID number and D.O.B. on the card. That ID number is all you need to get information about your child. To the best of my knowledge there are no safeguards in place to prevent someone, say a child molester, with good social engineering skills, from getting at that information, and making changes to it. My wife called the school and made such a change (in early 2000), and there was no challenge to her doing this, no verification that she was the parent. What if someone with baser desires would have done this? If we are going to force the kids to wear these ID's we also need to have safeguards in place to prevent the abuse of this information, such as logging the calls that come in, and calling back the parents when changes are made to the pickup schedule for your child. Already the ID's at South High are costing the school about 1.5 faculty positions per year according to the principal there in 1999-2000. I am _not_ opposed to making the kids produce the ID's on demand, but I am opposed to putting their ID numbers and D.O.B. on the cards. The bar code and picture should be sufficient. This would go far to limit the deficincies in the system that I mentioned above. But it still wouldn't protect your child against the Brian Klebold's, and the A. William's in the schools. Rich McMartin Bryant Neighborhood. _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
