Computer Chips In School Uniforms... What's Next?

Here's an excerpt from an interesting story published on March 22nd and written by Stahn Lehman of Associated Press called; "Locator chips keep track of students in Brazil".

SAO PAULO (AP) — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes, the city's education secretary said Thursday.

Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista's 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips earlier this week, secretary Coriolano Moraes said by telephone.
By 2013, all of the city's 43,000 public school students, aged 4 to 14, will be using the chip-embedded T-shirts, he added.

Radio frequency chips in "intelligent uniforms" let a computer know when children enter school and it sends a text message to their cell phones. Parents are also alerted if kids don't show up 20 minutes after classes begin with the following message: "Your child has still not arrived at school."

"We noticed that many parents would bring their children to school but would not see if they actually entered the building because they always left in a hurry to get to work on time," Moraes said in a telephone interview. "They would always be surprised when told of the number times their children skipped class.

After a student skips classes three times parents will be asked to explain the absences. If they fail to do so, the school may notify authorities, Moares said. The city government invested $670,000 to design, test and make the microchipped T-shirts, he said.

The chips, similar to those used to track pets in many countries, are placed underneath each school's coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says: "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people and people transform the world."

I wonder what's going to happen when the students who really want to skip school decide to carry a change of clothing? :-) After spending $670,000 to bring this bright idea to fruition, what's the next step in the evolution of this technology? I have an idea. Since it works so well for pets why not put the chips in the actual students? That way, they can't possibly skip school.

Also, they can't get lost or be kidnapped without notice. Like we discovered last week, if Nokia has their way maybe it can also be linked to their cellphones and act as a Bluetooth device. Why stop there? You can put their medical information just in case they have a medical emergency. You can also put their banking information in case their wallets are lost or stolen. Then why not put their personal identification while you're at it? If it works well for pets it should work well for students and if it works well for students why not try it on everyone?

Revelation 13:15-17(NLT) - He was then permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die. He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe I'm not. Computer Chips In School Uniforms. Bluetooth devices embedded under your skin.. What's Next?