After a full year of testing a radio frequency identification project at two of its campuses, the Northside Independent School District has decided to discontinue its student locator pilot at John Jay High and Anson Jones Middle Schools.
Students at Jay and Jones will no longer have to wear the RFID badges that projected their location on campus to school administrators. The $270,000 project started last fall as a way to take student attendance.
Northside spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said the project was analyzed from all sides before the decision was made to discontinue the practice.
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The embattled project was taken to federal court by Andrea Hernandez, a then sophomore at Jay’s Science magnet, on religious grounds. The suit ended in the district's favor and Hernandez’s removal from the school. She said she is elated the program has ended.
"That’s what I was fighting for, and it took a long, long time but all of the kids, and all of the things that we went through for this whole year, it finally paid off. I’m just really glad they discontinued it and no other student had to go through what I went through," Hernandez said. Full story...
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Students at Jay and Jones will no longer have to wear the RFID badges that projected their location on campus to school administrators. The $270,000 project started last fall as a way to take student attendance.
Northside spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said the project was analyzed from all sides before the decision was made to discontinue the practice.
(...)
The embattled project was taken to federal court by Andrea Hernandez, a then sophomore at Jay’s Science magnet, on religious grounds. The suit ended in the district's favor and Hernandez’s removal from the school. She said she is elated the program has ended.
"That’s what I was fighting for, and it took a long, long time but all of the kids, and all of the things that we went through for this whole year, it finally paid off. I’m just really glad they discontinued it and no other student had to go through what I went through," Hernandez said. Full story...
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