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Title: U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/?p=2710
Published: Jun 17, 2008
Author: David Gutierrez
Post Date: 2008-06-17 12:04:04 by Jethro Tull
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U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students David Gutierrez Natural News June 17, 2008 A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices. Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus’s current location as provided by the GPS device. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children’s privacy and a potential risk to their safety. "There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children," said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are. "[This program is] a solution in search of a problem," Brown said. The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger. Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but "it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements. Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
who provides these schoolbags and are children required to have the them on their person?
Who owns MAP?
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=1322257 ACLU Rips Plan to Track R.I. Students January 7, 2008 - 9:46pm By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. The pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, on their schoolbags. It would also equip two buses with global positioning systems, or GPS devices. -Snip The pilot program, made by MAP Information Technology Corp., is to run for several months at the Aquidneck School, she said. The district, which serves about 2,500 students, is the company's only client, said Deborah Rapp, the company's director of marketing and communications.
I find it an interesting datum that they do not come up in Scroogle Search. Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information. That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Nothing in Yahoo or Wackypedia either.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Very odd indeed. Either central unintelligent agency or a foreign owned private company. Hmmm...letsee...who comes to mind if the latter?
Is your school sick? Five threats to healthy schools. From: The Clearing House Date: March 1, 1998 Author: Five risk factors must be identified to avoid sick building syndrome in school buildings. After diagnosing the condition, school administrators must be aware of which building materials and chemicals are considered as environmental hazards. Attention should also be given to indoor air quality. Every day, students and teachers are exposed to environmentally unsafe schools and homes that can influence their overall health and mental capabilities (Rapp 1996). Much of the problem lies in America's school buildings (Goldberg 1991; Rist 1991). A recent report by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) (1995) admitted that approximately 25,000, or one-third, of our schools, serving 14 million students, are in need of extensive repair or replacement. In this article, we address the challenge of coping with schools that are not up to par environmentally by examining the five major threats to healthy school buildings: sick building syndrome, health-threatening building materials, environmental hazards such as radon gas and asbestos, lead poisoning, and general indoor air quality. We also discuss ways that parents, teachers, and administrators can assess the health of their schools. Rapp, D. 1996. - ls this your child's world? - New York: Bantam.
If a parent cannot transfer their children to a private school, homeschool, or put them in another school district, then toss that schoolbag in the microwave.
Damn straight, but many, many will want their kiddies chipped.
Yep, it's for the children's own good...
Yep, it's for the children's own good... Hilarious :P I needed that!
BOGUS.
That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon. You're right, there is absolutely no trace of that company name on Google other than references to this story.
Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information. That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon. mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/certificate-community.php Chris Collins (picture) CEO, MAP Information Technology Corp. - USA * Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
OK....... Rapp, Deborah, (401) 886-1187 - East Grenwich, Rhode Island (public info via Google)
Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information. That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon. www.linkedin.com/pub/5/b05/a95 Chris Collins CEO at MAP Information Technology Corp Providence, Rhode Island Area Current * CEO at MAP Information Technology Corp Past * Sr. Director of Engineering at GTECH Education * University of Rhode Island * Bryant University Websites * My Company Chris Collins’s Experience CEO MAP Information Technology Corp (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry) 2007 — Present (1 year) Sr. Director of Engineering GTECH (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry) 1991 — December 2007 (16 years) Chris Collins’s Education * University of Rhode Island BS, Electrical Engineering * Bryant University MBA, Additional Information Chris Collins’s Websites: * My Company If it is voluntary I don't see the problem. There is that slippery slope thingy to consider, but if I had a problem child, any help in protecting that child I would probably accept.
"First they chipped the back packs, then they chipped.." ;-)
We deserve luciferian world government. :-(
Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information. That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon. www.blacklistednews.com/iNP/view.asp?ID=5204 School Wants To Chip Students Backpacks Published on Tuesday, January 08, 2008. Source: Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. The pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, on their schoolbags. It would also equip two buses with global positioning systems, or GPS devices. The school and parents will be able to track students on the bus, and the district hopes the program will improve busing efficiency, Superintendent Rosemarie Kraeger said. The devices are intended to record only when students enter and exit the bus, and the GPS would show where the bus was on it's route. Parents could opt out of the program, Kraeger said. The pilot program, made by MAP Information Technology Corp., is to run for several months at the Aquidneck School, she said. The district, which serves about 2,500 students, is the company's only client, said Deborah Rapp, the company's director of marketing and communications. Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, sent a letter to Kraeger and members of the school committee calling the plan "a solution in search of a problem" and saying the school district should already have procedures in place to track where its students are. On Monday, he said the program raises enormous privacy and safety concerns. "There's absolutely no need to be tagging children," he said. "We are not questioning the school district's ability to use GPS to monitor school buses. But it's a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." Rapp described the system as limited in scope. "The program is solely designed to provide accountability when the children are in transit, from the moment they enter the bus to the moment they exit," she said. "It is limited to when they are on the bus. We in no way take it beyond that." Brown also raised concerns that unauthorized people, perhaps using RFID readers that are easily bought online, could exploit information contained on the tags. Ed Collins, the district's facilities manager, said that would not be possible. Collins and Rapp said the RFID tag would only contain an ID number, not a name, address or other personal information. Only the school administration would be able to match the ID number with the child, Rapp said. Collins is the brother of Chris Collins, who founded MAP Information Technology last year. The district did not need clearance from the state ethics commission to set up the testing, however, because the program is free during the pilot, Kraeger said. Officials with the district, which neighbors a naval station and the famed yachting community of Newport, said they didn't have an estimate on what it would cost to put the tracking system in place district-wide. Kraeger said she was unaware of the controversy ignited three years ago when a Northern California school system planned to put in place an RFID system to track students at school. The proposal died after protests by parents and privacy and civil liberties advocates, including the ACLU. The Middletown school board approved the pilot program in November. In a recent letter to parents, the company and the district explained the program and invited parents to get in touch with the school system if they had any questions, Rapp said. No one called. The district was interested in trying out the program in the hopes that it would improve communication with parents, who will be able to check a Web site to see whether the buses are on time and their children are on them, Kraeger said. Tracking students' movements will be no different from an existing system that allows parents to see what their child had for lunch or check their attendance record, Kraeger said. "If a bus were delayed, they could look for their own student ID and see where the bus was," she said.
Future generation North American Union ID will be a chip and it will include benefits, such as being able to utilize the digital currency of the NAU Central Bank (or will that be World Central Bank?), shoddy government 'healthcare', internal travel, etc.
They did offer their children to the empire for programming to start with. Whats the big deal?
Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information. That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon. Christopher J. Collins MAP Information Technology Corp. 15 Falmount Ave. Lincoln, RI 02865 Domestic Profit Corporation
b. "If a bus were delayed, they could look for their own student ID and see where the bus was," she {Supt.Kraeger]said. a. What a coinkeydeunce that Ed Collins, the district's manager, is the brother of Chris Collins, the founder of the phantom company called MAP. And "the state ETHICS commission" did not see any need to get their agency involved in this situation? Hello - anybody home at the Rhode Island ETHICS commission? b. Oh thank you, Superintendent Rosemarie Kraeger for putting our minds at rest. At first we thought that RFID used to track children in a public school without authorization from parents was some nefarious technology, but now that you have pointed out the ENORMOUS practical application, we feel so much better. NOT. Who does this condescending brown shirt jack boot educator think she's talking to - her kindergarten students???? c. First they came to RFID the horses and cows. Next they came to RFID the dogs and cats. Finally they came to RFID your children and you.
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Hey here's an idea. Why don't our congresscritters get themselves RFID? Yes, come to think of it, it would be very valuable to have posted on the websites of all critters their previous month's whereabouts every second of every day. Yes sirree, it would be most helpful to know where my congresscritter spends all his time because he sure isn't around that much for crucial votes.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry) His previous experience was in the gambling and casinos industry??? Nice folks Mr.Chris Collins hung with prior to founding his own RFID company. Hmmmm....
Your search - "MAP information" - did not match any documents. No pages were found containing ""MAP information"". Suggestions: * Make sure all words are spelled correctly. The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
Hey here's an idea. Why don't our congresscritters get themselves RFID? Yes, come to think of it, it would be very valuable to have posted on the websites of all critters their previous month's whereabouts every second of every day. Yes sirree, it would be most helpful to know where my congresscritter spends all his time because he sure isn't around that much for crucial votes. ...and when they try to flee out of the country, we can track them down.
This gets more interesting. MAP is closely held. Has no known Web Site. Has "1" Client - the school district and MAP is paying for the "Pilot Project". Collins was a student at MIT - which has so many ties back into the "Intelligence Community" that they might as well be on the CIA's "Table of Organization" (and may be). Map looks like a "Front Company" and this program appears more likely to be an operation out of Langely VA. than anything else.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Very odd indeed. Either central unintelligent agency or a foreign owned private company. Hmmm...letsee...who comes to mind if the latter? "Raises hand and starts fidgeting." "I know, I know, I know!" Could it be a well known Intelligence Agency in Shittylittlestan? Is it spelled M-O-S-S-A-D?
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp.
#3. To: scrapper2 (#2)
This is all I can find out about the company.
#4. To: Jethro Tull, scrapper2 (#3)
#5. To: All (#4)
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#4)
That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon.
#8. To: Original_Intent, Scrapper2, all (#5)
D. Rapp is referenced in the article below. Apparently she wrote a book - ls this your child's world? - which discussed schools and school environments.
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
then toss that schoolbag in the microwave.
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
but many, many will want their kiddies chipped.
#12. To: scrapper2, Jethro Tull (#11)
but many, many will want their kiddies chipped.
#13. To: TwentyTwelve (#12)
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval
#15. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Either Google is censoring them out or we have an "Information Technology" company with no public information.
You appear to be a major trouble maker...and I'm getting really pissed. - GoldiLox, 7/27/2006
#16. To: Original_Intent, Jethro Tull, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#4)
I find it an interesting datum that they do not come up in Scroogle Search.
#17. To: TwentyTwelve, Original_Intent, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#16)
The company has one client - the school district.
#18. To: Original_Intent, Jethro Tull, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#4)
I find it an interesting datum that they do not come up in Scroogle Search.
#19. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#21. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
Damn straight, but many, many will want their kiddies chipped.
#22. To: Original_Intent, Jethro Tull, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#4)
I find it an interesting datum that they do not come up in Scroogle Search.
#23. To: TwentyTwelve (#22)
#24. To: TwentyTwelve (#22)
The Middletown school board approved the pilot program in November. In a recent letter to parents, the company and the district explained the program and invited parents to get in touch with the school system if they had any questions, Rapp said. No one called.
#25. To: Original_Intent, Jethro Tull, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#4)
I find it an interesting datum that they do not come up in Scroogle Search.
#26. To: TwentyTwelve (#22)
a. Ed Collins, the district's facilities manager, said that would not be possible. Collins and Rapp said the RFID tag would only contain an ID number, not a name, address or other personal information...Collins is the brother of Chris Collins, who founded MAP Information Technology last year. The district did not need clearance from the state ethics commission to set up the testing, however, because the program is free during the pilot, Kraeger said.
#27. To: scrapper2, TwentyTwelve (#26)
#28. To: Rotara, ALL (#27)
#29. To: TwentyTwelve (#28)
IBM, Verichip, and the Fouth Reich
#30. To: TwentyTwelve, Jethro Tull, Original_Dissent (#18)
Sr. Director of Engineering GTECH
#31. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Bloomberg
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
#32. To: scrapper2 (#29)
IBM, Verichip, and the Fouth Reich
#33. To: TwentyTwelve, Jethro Tull, scrapper2, FormerLurker (#16)
#34. To: scrapper2 (#7)
That suggests Intelligence Agency like a big red beacon.
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