Teachers break silence on fingerprinting children
The National Union of Teachers has said that schools should not fingerprint children without the consent of parents.
But UK teaching unions are being slow to formulate firmer policies on the issue because, it appears, teachers have not complained to their unions about the fingerprinting schemes that, according to parents' campaign group leavethemkidsalone.com. has already fingerprinted 700,000 primary school children in 3,500 schools without seeking parental consent.
I am still amazed that this has been allowed to continue unchecked. If I had children of school age and was told that they would be fingerprinted without my permission, I would withdraw them from the school, and relocate them at a school with a "no fingerprinting" policy. Actually, I can see that as a USP that schools should promote, along with good grades etc. "We promise not to criminalise your children" might be a good slogan.
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