now you can lojack your kids!

28,000 Texas schoolchildren are being electronically monitored. That’s good. That way school officials know everything about them and can learn their habits, figure out when they’re alone, stuff like that. No potentially for creepy shit whatsoever. Nope.

My Cyberculture students wrote so many great essays about the rise of electronic student surveillance. The kids are alright. It’s the administrators we have to worry about.

As a value-added feature, I bet they’ll find so many ways to harvest marketing-data out of this little experiment…