Students to be tracked via their school passes... big brother is watching!!

Northside Independent School District in San Antonio Texas has decided to keep track of their students by placing a Radio Frequency Identification tag inside the student's I.D. badge. This is a horrible idea! If the school district cannot keep track of where these children are, maybe they should not be left in charge of these young people. When you drop your child off in the morning you should feel confident that the district can account for their whereabouts until you pick them up, without the help of a homing device as if they were runaway cattle! The school says that the main purpose is for revenue as per state funding is largely based on attendance. What ever happened to taking attendance at the beginning of the day and keeping track of your students?
This is wrong on many levels. First, it is telling the children that we do not trust them to follow orders. How can we expect the future of our country to grow and take on more responsibilities as the enter adulthood if we cannot even believe in them enough to follow a class schedule? This is not supposed to be a prison, it is supposed to be an institution of learning. But if you begin to treat them like criminals that is exactly as they will start to behave. Second, this is big brother watching over us at its worst! This is the beginning of Orwell's 1984 for God's Sake. Many people will brush this under the rug because they are just children and it is only a school district that is doing the tracking, but where does it end?  Would you want your boss to know every step that you made throughout your workday? Would it not be an invasion of your privacy if they were able to track how long you spent in the toilet, at the water cooler or talking to the lady in the cubicle next to you?If we brainwash our children that it is okay for an authority to keep track of every move they make, what is going to happen to them when they enter the workforce in a few years? You can laugh at this, you can think that I am blowing something out of proportion as usual :) but I think that this is not laughing matter. Orwell wrote that book in 1949, over sixty years ago!!!, but even then he saw the writing on the wall. The more freedoms that you give up the more you are at risk to becoming a slave. Maybe not a slave in the conventional sense, but a slave nonetheless. A slave to the punch clock, a slave to the school desk or a slave to the computer. A slave and this time the whip is going to be in the hand of big brother...
Is it hot in here or am I Crazy?