Something not on the front pages of newspapers but is still interesting none the less was an AP article about a California school that is requiring students to where lo-jack type monitoring device that reports where students are at school, whether it be in class, or in the bathroom. The device gives off a radio frequency that tells school staff where they are when the pass by a frequency reader. The readers are installed in classrooms, locker rooms, and bathrooms, and are intended to make attendance easier, while preventing vandalism and school violence. While parents were not involved in the decisions making process to use the radio badges, some parents feel that students are being turned into livestock, which are often themselves tracked with radio type badges.
Only in capital society are children treated like prisoners. It is not just a product of capitalism but a process. Why one might ask? Because school under capitalism prepares future workers for work under capitalism, and I am not talking about through education. Boredom and monotony in school prepares students for boredom and monotony in the work place. The conformity to time clocks, breaks, and lunches at school prepares future workers for the same once in the work place. These new radio ID badges have been designed to continue this effort. Attendance, location, and activities are all important to school administrators and employers, and this radio ID badge is just another tool used in school to prepare future workers for work. Just as employers cant have employees walking around the work place doing whatever they want, neither can teachers have students doing whatever they want.
What many fail to realize is that if you have to train people to get used to school and work environments, perhaps they don’t want to be their, or shouldn’t be there in the first place.
In a socialist society, people will not need to be monitored to make sure they are where they are supposed to be. Work will not be mandatory, and neither will required education be a part of educating society after the socialist revolution.
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