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Student-GPS Tracking Program Halted In Some Texas Schools

17-3-2014 < SGT Report 323 130 words
 

by Adan Salazar, Infowars:



Schools in Austin, Texas, have declined to renew their contract for a controversial program in which students who had chronic attendance issues were monitored via GPS tracking units.


Starting January 2010, several Texas schools began singling out students who were often late to class or skipped school and sending them to “truancy court,” where a judge would decide whether to outfit them with Aim Truancy Solutions GPS trackers. Since then, the truancy court spectacle has been dropped. The Austin Independent School District now targets “students who were on the verge of going to court – those with chronic absences and those who were repeatedly tardy to class,” reports KXAN.


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