Taking liberties and fingerprinting children
Post categories: Buckley, Flintshire, Mold
| 12:42 UK time, Friday, 1 February 2008
What do you think about the idea in Flintshire that Buckley Elfed and Mold Alun schools are to adopt a fingerprinting scheme where pupils will use their print instead of cash to make purchases in the canteen? Flintshire Chronicle picks up on the concerns of one mother who reckons the idea is like fingerprinting criminals.
The scheme does offer an alternative. Children can use a pin number but. Under the scheme, credit will be added to pupils' account and then the system will make deductions. The idea is working elsewhere and a fingerprint can be used to sign out library books, etc.
Are you happy for children to have their identities registered in a system like this or is it a step too far, akin to the national identity scheme which, by the way, now appears to have been delayed until 2010, according to BBC News.
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The biometrics have been getting taken all week.
We have been putting our prints on all week and the man helping with the system has explained to some of us how the prints are converted into numbers and stored on a seperate server and can never be turned back into an image of our prints.
Myself and my classmates think its a great idea as now no one can ever know Im on free meals and all the stigma around free meals is gone also no one can ever have there dinner money stolen again as pictures are on the tills so no one can ever steal a pin number and use it.
It's safer and a lot more secure than the system we have now and I personally have nothing to hide from getting school meals does Miss McKeand have something to worry about?