I've heard of paying through your nose, but...

[khaosworks]

School to use eye scan for lunch fees

A new high school said Wednesday its students will be charged for their lunches with a retina scanning device to prevent poor children who eat for free from being ridiculed in the cafeteria.

Dr. Ed Yates, headmaster of the Venerable Bede school, said the advanced eye-recognition software will be in place when the institution opens its doors to 900 students in September in Sunderland, western England.

There's a joke here about poor eyesight, but I just can't find it.

Comments

[camwyn]

This is quite possibly the lamest excuse I've ever seen for the implementation of an experimental Big Brother procedure. 'Oh yeah. It's so utterly and completely vital that we safeguard the process of lunch from fraud and protect children from bullying that we're going to put in a system that'd make Captain Kirk jealous. Bet they'll be more comfortable with being scanned for government purposes when they grow up, anyone?'.

... sorry, I'm a little touchy today.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought. Get 'em used to Big Brother monitoring at an early age, that way they'll be much less likely to complain when they're adults. Just like drug testing in the good old US of A.

[jost.livejournal.com]

There's a joke here about poor eyesight, but I just can't find it.

There sure is, but it's really hard to see it.....

Tip your waitress, folks. I'll be here all week.

[gingicat]

They're probably doing this on the theory that kids can't lose their eyes. The entryway at the school where I work has a hand scanner, rather than a card scanner, on the theory that kids can't lose their hands. (They do forget their codes, but we can deal with that.)

There was a lot of fuss recently ....

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... about a thumbprint scanner used in a school library for checking out books... all the usual "Big Brother" stuff of course ...

... jokes ...

Gosh, they must be on a "see food" diet!

If I squint do I get low calorie food?

YES! Finally we're going to improve the gene pool by starving all the blind kids to death ... (no, not really)

What will the bullies steal now instead of lunch money? (clue: see Minority Report!)

Sunderland, putting the "eyes" in "D_NNER T_ME"

Don't blink, you'll be charged twice

etc. etc.