Los Angeles Times (2/22): Town Gives Brave New World an F

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From the Los Angeles Times
Dated Tuesday February 22

Town Gives Brave New World an F
When an elementary school required students to wear radio frequency IDs, some parents saw the specter of Big Brother.
By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer

Sutter, Calif. — This little Northern California farm town is blissfully unaccustomed to turmoil. But recent weeks dished up a hopper of dissent.

It started with a girl who went home from junior high saying she felt like an orange.

Lauren Tatro, 13, told her parents the plain facts. Every student at Brittan Elementary School had to wear a badge the size of an index card with their name, grade, photo — and a tiny radio identification tag. The purpose was to test a new high-tech attendance system. To the eighth-grader, it seemed students had been turned into grocery items on the shelf, slabs of sirloin at the meat counter, fruit in the produce section.

So began a difficult stretch for this town of 2,885.

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