In October 2012, a student rebelled against RFID (radio-frequency identification) tracking cards issued — and mandatory — for all students within two schools in a San Antonio, Texas, school district, saying from a religious perspective, she considered them the “mark of the beast.” After court battles that followed it, the school has decided to completely cancel the program, which was launched to improve attendance.

Andrea Hernandez, then a sophomore in John Jay High School within North Independence School District, was expelled in January 2013 for refusing to use the RFID card. That same month, a federal judge ruled that mandating the tracking system for students was not an infringement upon Hernadez’s religious beliefs, as she claimed it was, citing the Biblical book of Revelation. The teen with her legal counsel, The Rutherford Institute, appealed that decision.
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This decision by Texas school officials to end the student locator program is proof that change is possible if Americans care enough to take a stand and make their discontent heard,” attorney John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, said in a statement. “As Andrea Hernandez and her family showed, the best way to ensure that your government officials hear you is by never giving up, never backing down, and never remaining silent—even when things seem hopeless.”
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But NBC Latino reported the school district’s spokesman, Pascual Gonzalez, clarifying the school’s decision to not continue the program, which was instituted as a pilot program in 2012, had nothing to do with the Hernandez family’s complaints.

“We did not cancel it because the kids didn’t want it,” Gonzalez said. “We felt the investment was not worth the return and the additional workload of the staff to monitor and follow up on the system.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/...k-of-the-beast/

OK...we get it.. You dropped it because of the investment...sure...