How utterly ridiculous! If children cannot remember a few passwords to log into an iPad how on earth is a school to hope children will retain lesson content?
What is more worrying is that teachers also "dedicate a lot of time to logging in". Apparently with this new facial recognition programme it is a “walk through one door and you’re into everything,”...erm, isn't that what an iPad password does anyway?
The whole sales pitch on this was completely flawed - in fact it was a load of rubbish and parents were not falling for it. A solution to a problem that simply did not exist and parents rightly saw through this.
It's strange isn't it? Outside school children are quite capable of remembering passwords for computers, tablets and mobile phones. As a parent I can absolutely say that I have never heard another parent moan about their child's inability to remember a password or had any conversation with another parent about their child's passwords being stolen or compromised. So it's very odd that when a child enters school this sudden amnesia becomes a problem that potentially costs the tax payer $189,000. I would say that is unbelievable.
If maybe, possibly, this peculiar amnesia is true, then surely $189,000 could be better spent to fund research into this strange phenomenon of kids forgetting passwords... I don't think we'll see that happen because this sudden loss of memory in our children does not exist - and we parents know it.
A petition was set up by a parent that gained over 360 signatures and was successful in swaying opinion that biometric facial recognition is a completely unnecessary and inappropriate technology to use with children.
Findbiometrics say on the failed programme-
"At a time when biometric technology is increasingly finding applications in schools – from deployments as innocuous as cafeteria lunch administration to more serious security systems – the EUSD fiasco signals how precarious this area can be, given the privacy and security concerns that often seem to come up with public biometric deployments, and parents’ particularly strong interest in protecting their kids."
- No sh*t Sherlock.
