The Anaheim Union High School District really doesn’t want students to skip class, so it is doing the only logical thing (sarcasm intended): It’s tracking delinquent students with GPS devices, reports Mashable. According to The Orange County Register, the district is the first in California to take part in a six-week pilot program targetting students that frequently ditch school. The hope is that a combination of new-school Big Brother tracking technology and old-school nagging and haranguing will keep kids in the classroom and off the streets where gang susceptibility rises. In practice, it kind of strikes us as creepy. In the program, seventh and eighth graders with four or more unexcused absences are given a handheld GPS device that looks like an old-school cell phone…
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