HAZLE TOWNSHIP, Pa. – A Pennsylvania school district is scanning students’ thumbprints, tracking all of their lunch purchases, and turning the data over to the federal government.
The Hazleton Area School District recently announced it would be providing free meals to all students, regardless of need.
The move comes after the federal government began incentivizing school districts to provide more meals to more students.
As The Citizens’ Voice reports:
While it would seem that providing all children with lunch would cost districts more, the pilot federal initiative turns that assumption on its ear. The initiative encourages school districts to move toward full participation by providing districts with reimbursements that will in fact absorb the cost of providing lunch to students of all income levels, whether they walk to school — or if a chauffeur drives them.
“We will at least break even, if not come out ahead because of federal reimbursement,” according to district superintendent Craig Butler.
The conclusion comes after the Hazleton district purchased biometric software to track students who receive free or reduced-cost lunches.
The student’s thumbprint was scanned each time he or she received a meal.
And someone asked in another thread what was the big deal about administrators and teachers having a few names and pics at conferences.
This isn’t an attack on that person, just another part of the answer to his question. They don’t stop mining for information, they just don’t. And now sending the info to the *government*? That is effed up.
1984
One step closer to “The Mark of the Beast”. Very serious!
“… come out ahead because of federal reimbursement …”
These imbeciles really don’t understand the whole concept of money, do they?
What’s the best thing to come out of Pennsylvania?
An empty Greyhound bus!
Pennsylvania! A good place to be from!
Just knocking PA for fun – we have the same caliber morons in our county and state bureaucracies.
Things are just getting creepier every day.
Mamomma – – Yes, free meals laced with thorazine and salt peter.
It would be entertaining if some student nerd got hold of the school superintendent’s finger print, made a mold, and passed around finger cots with it for everybody to use when scanned.
Hilarity would ensue.
I don’t doubt it could happen!!!
Come on folks move quickly now. This way to the showers. Just leave your clothes by the entry door. You will find new clean clothing on the other side of the showers.