Big Brother Enters California Preschool: Tracking Devices for Students

Preschool students in Contra Costa County, California, are getting their first taste of Big Brother at an early age. Officials have begun attaching tracking devices to the children to help the preschool save staff time and money. Interestingly enough, safety wasn't mentioned on this one. Usually safety is always mentioned in these articles.

The students will put on a jacket when they arrive. The jacket sends a radio frequency to daycare providers that lets the provider know where they are at, if they have arrived, and if they have eaten or not. It sounds like to me the jacket promotes laziness with the preschool workers, and does little more.

School officials say it will free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten.

Guess whose paying for this little system? I guess when I put it that way, you can easily guess. The federal taxpayer! The preschool received a $50,000 federal grant to begin conditioning these children to Big Brother devices.