The Ohio County Board of Education just approved a pilot fingerprinting system for use in an elementary school for cafeteria efficiency. They say the fingerprinting system will allow for a faster, more accurate way of tracking school lunch accounts. With a quick scan of a student's finger, the system accesses that student's account and deducts the lunch fee all in less than a second.
One has to wonder, is this a necessary way to combat the sharing/borrowing/stealing of students' lunch money? The Board of Education says the fingerprint records will be stored with the same level of security of all other school records, and that they will be destroyed after graduation. But, again, is this the best use for what seems to be a surplus of available finances? And what happened to getting to know each student and being able to personally identify them, rather than relying on a fingerprint scanner to distinguish identification.
Read the entire article here and let us know what you think about this issue below, by leaving a comment. Do the privacy concerns have you objecting to this proposal, too? Or the dehumanizing of our students? Or maybe the cost concerns of this undertaking, which are slated to spread to other school functions and throughout high schools in the area as well? Or do you feel it is just a natural application of a growing-in-popularity technology? We'd love to hear from you.
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