STOURBRIDGE, England – A school is implementing a biometric system to better track what students are eating each day.

fingerprint-scanner1The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”

The system requires pupils to press a finger against a machine which converts the print into biometric data.

This can then be used to identify individual pupils accounts.

http://eagnews.org/students-to-be-fingerprinted-to-monitor-their-diets/

....what the actual fuck?  Wouldn't swiping a school credit card so that parents can track what their kids eat be simple enough?

(Also ignore the comments section, it's like a Republican Escapist.)

Well there's also this little comment from another site I go to, and it's made by someone I really don't agree with.

don't get the part of the justification about tracking what kids eat. It's not like kids eat everything on their plate. That and kids trade food all the time too. So, the system is defeated before it begins.

My gripe would be more about the health of the kids. You're going to have hundreds of kids put their finger on this scanner right before they eat? You could spread a disease pretty good that way.

I actually agreed with him on this one.