California Preschool Outfits Students With Tracking Devices - RFID Tags

RICHMOND, Calif. - The Contra Costa County School District began introducing a new high tech tracking system for preschool students that alert teachers when their students leave campus. Embedded in what looks like a tiny basketball jersey that each student will wear when at school is a radio frequency tag that also uses Wi-Fi. The tag provides a signal to sensors planted throughout the school. The information from those sensors is displayed in a map of the school, thereby allowing teachers and administrators to know exactly where students are at any given time. Parents will digitally sign in and sign out a child, saving teachers from hand filing attendance records required by the state. "Now, when we feed the children lunch we just have to push a button and it's done," said teacher Simone Beauford. "We don't have to check the papers, check the papers, check the papers…"

Source: KTVU San Francisco