Kids Buy Lunches With Biometric Scans
Pastor Dale Morgan
Sep 5, 7:12 AM EDT
*Kids Buy Lunches With Biometric Scans*
ROME, Ga. (AP) -- The never-ending march of technology now means school
children here can pay for their cafeteria sloppy joes with their fingers.
Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students
use their fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, students
had to punch in their pin numbers.
"The finger's better because all you've got to do is put your finger in,
and you don't have to do the number and get mixed up," said Adrianna
Harris, a second grader at Anna K. Davie Elementary School.
The new system speeds lunch lines, said city administrators. It's being
phased in to Rome High School, Rome Middle School and all the city's
elementary schools. The city hopes to have the system in use next month
system-wide.
Some parents are uneasy with having their children's fingerprints
scanned, and wonder about how well the information is secured.
"It may be perfectly secure, but my daughter is a minor and I understand
that supposedly the kids have the option to not have their prints
scanned, but that's not being articulated to my daughter," said Hal
Storey, who's daughter is a 10th grader at Rome High.