A California high-school has turned itself into a surveillance state, tracking students moment-by-moment. Presumably, this is so that they will be better prepared to live in a surveillance state by the time they graduate.
As Mike Brooder pulls into the student parking lot outside West Hills High School, wireless cameras record his face and license plate–doing the same to every car that follows.
The cameras then track the 17-year-old senior as he walks up a concrete path, studies his schedule, scratches his chin, waves to friends and then wanders to class…
Each bathroom door is monitored. Sensors that detect the smoke of a single match send alerts to campus security.
By Christmas, four more cameras will be installed, and hall monitors will carry wireless computers that can pull up a student's school picture and class schedule.
