A School Administration Is In Trouble For Making Students Pay For Lunch With Their Fingerprints

Source – A Nebraska public school system is failing kids by forcing them to get their fingers scanned to pay for lunch, according to irate parents.

Justin Osterfoss, who has a son at an elementary school in Gretna, says he received an email from Gretna Public Schools last week about the new lunch identification system. Osterfoss thinks parents should be able to decide whether their child’s fingerprints are used.

“The email states they aren’t going to store fingerprints, but they have to have some sort of recognition of this is who it’s identifying,” Osterfoss told WOWT.

The Gretna school district, which has implemented the fingerprint ID program at two middle schools and one high school, said the system is an improvement: “We have found that the process speeds up the lunch line or prevents the occasional issues of students entering the wrong lunch number.”

Surrounding school districts have also implemented the fingerprinting technology, reported Click2Houston. The Westside Public School District has successfully used the program for the last two years.

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Remember when you used to be able to pay for lunch with actual money? Those were the days. I remember my lunch cost two dollars for a single and four dollars for a double. If you were skinny enough (I was) the lunch ladies would load you up with a double for the price of a single. I don’t know how much school lunch costs nowadays, but I guarantee it’s not enough to warrant your fingerprint to pay for it.

It’s not even the threat of information being leaked to third parties or obvious privacy issues that bug me, it’s just the absurdity of it all. It’s another example of technology being inserted into lives to try to fix something that isn’t broke. These are CHILDREN, let them buy their fucking lunch like normal people. The Pentagon doesn’t even make their staffers pay with their fingerprints.

Not only that, now none of these kids will be able to get away with murder.  They’ll be forced to melt off their fingertips like the guy in Gone In 60 Seconds if they want to commit any crime whatsoever. Which statistically speaking is bound to happen. Good on the parents for speaking up, even if their excuses were bullshit.

“Osterfoss believes the new technology — which eliminates the need for kids to enter a lunch card number — will get in the way of his child’s learning.”

What do they want their kid to do, study during lunch? Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if this policy is overruled in the next weeks. It makes zero sense.