Students participating in the test would swipe a finger across a scanner on the bus every time they board and exit.
An alarm would trigger if a student tried to get on or off at the wrong stop.
“It's definitely a wonderful safety component,” Superintendent Sharon McGehee said.
In 2007, three first-graders from Desert Sands were mistakenly dropped off at the wrong location early in the school year and rescued by neighbors.
I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn just how challenging a school's identity management environment really is.
First, school is compulsory; most parents really don't have much of a choice about whether or not to send their child to school. The compulsory nature of school attendance places an extraordinary burden on schools to ensure student safety. The added fact that children are legally recognized to be unable to take responsibility for themselves necessarily increases the responsibility schools have regarding child safety.
Given these responsibilities, can anyone be surprised that schools are among the vanguard of biometric solution adoption? It would be strange if they weren't.
