"Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips...and by 2013, all of the city's 43,000 public school students will be using the chip-embedded shirts... RFID chips in the "intelligent uniforms" let a computer know when children enter school and it sends a text message to the parent's cell phone...

The chips, similar to those used to track pets [and farm animals] in many countries, are placed underneath each school's coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says: "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people and people transform the world."

-- Huffington Post

"Education changes people"? Indeed. Orwell himself couldn't have said it better. But what does it change them into?

"Northside Independent School District [of San Antonio, Texas] plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using RFID technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students...

District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags would 'improve safety' by allowing them to locate students -- and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day... "We want to harness the power of technology to make schools safer, know where our students are all the time in a school, and increase revenues," district spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said. "Parents expect that we always know where their children are, and this technology will help us do that."

-- San Antonio News

The movement patterns will be archived and analyzed, and combined with a myriad of other data sources for a complete and permanent profile. If you step out of line anywhere, it will be recorded.

Society is rapidly being transformed into an open-air prison camp, using the latest in surveillance technology, where the notion of "individual liberty" is simply an archaic and meaningless concept.

"It matters little whether our masters stoop to state the matter in the form that 'every prison should be a school'; or in the more candid form that 'every school should be a prison'. They have already fulfilled their servile principle in the case of the schools."

-- G.K. Chesterton, "Utopia of Usurers", 1917