Did Oceania Have This?

[barbara100 at jps.net]

While you're slapping those peanut butter and jellies together, have those
kids write a letter to their school administration telling them not to give
their names and addresses to the military, so come graduation time you won't
get "be all you can be" recruiters knocking at your door trying to whisk
them off into the next Gulf war. Schools are required to supply the
information under No Child Left Behind unless you or your child tells them
otherwise.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/45/ma_153_01.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at attbi.com>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:30 AM
Subject: Did Oceania Have This?


Fingerprints Required To Buy School Lunch

"Akron students will be fingerprinted beginning this fall to identify them
in school lunch lines.

[...]
"Students' fingerprints will be put into a scanner that will make a template
of binary numbers corresponding with the unique swirls and arches of each
print. When students go through the lunch line, they will place their finger
on a scanner that will identify them based on the stored template."

Full story at:
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/5957915.htm


Methinks it's a pretty sneaky, invasive way to create a database. My kids
would be bringing their own lunches to school.

Tim