Forcing students to where ID badges is disturbing. What people should also be
disturbed about is how they are being used. I graduated from a high school in
the US in 2003. Even then they had cameras in the schools (recently
implemented, the schools weren't dangerous either though), had started
requiring students and not just issuing student IDs, but requiring them to be
warn, and if students purchased lunch, invade there privacy, by logging
students purchases. I'm sure this was done in 'the name of healthy eating' or
for 'safety' or to 'avoid legal liability due to allergies, etc'.
It is unreasonable to invade the privacy of every student buying lunch just
to offset liability of students with health issues. Students who have health
issues may benefit from being informed about the risks although students who
do not have health issues should not be forced (and even those who do should
not be forced) to use any such system.
Unfortunately there are not enough people objecting to these things. I think
there was some objection by the students to drug testing of athletes where I
went to school. Unfortunately the school won a supreme court case and now any
student can be drug tested who is involved in an after school activity. This
does not stop students from being drug tested who appear to be impaired on
school grounds though.
