A Family’s Fight for Freedom: Lawyers Move to Block RFID Expulsion (Aside)

A Family’s Fight for Freedom: Lawyers Move to Block RFID Expulsion

"Under the “Smart ID” program, all 4,200 students are forced to wear an ID badge with an RFID tracking chip in it at all times to attend school"

"On the district’s Student Locator Project website, it notes that “Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose ‘smart’ ID card.”

Video on the issue

After reading this, the only benefit I could see by using this would be safety and for attendance purposes. It also seemed that students wear these tags from school to home, but I am not sure of that.
If the school says that these tags are implemented for safety, then parents only should have the request to refuse the RFID tags. I do not think that a school, unless it is private,  should be able to implement these on children against their parent's request. Overall, it should be a personal choice. 
The fact that students can be tracked at home (if I am understanding correctly) is a complete intrusion of privacy. I understand that we are, for the most part, tracked all day. However, I think that subjecting children to this by a party outside of the parent is unethical. Yes, it could pose as a safety devise, but what extent does that serve once a child is inside the school parameters? Walking to and from school could pose a threat, and is the only reason I could see for the implementation of this RFID tag.
I also thought it was comical that, "all students are expected to comply with the Smart ID policy". This was comical in the sense that it is expected that everyone in this new technologically advanced society to simply comply with these implementations. The fact that the school did not consider anyone objecting to an intrusive deployment of these RFID chips is quite interesting in regard of our society.