Report to the People
28th March 2005
Text Booked
If you’re still at school and
haven’t learnt it yet, today you are going to be taught the lesson entitled
“the double-edged sword.”
You
probably think that computer and mobile technology is great.
That it brings you the freedom, for example, to chat with pals,
boyfriends, girlfriends and virtual communities away from parents’ prying eyes
and ears.
But
now this technology, with which you have taken great delight in baffling us
older people for years, has turned.
Thanks
to a new computer anti-truanting system, if you decide to forego the pleasures
of double maths on a Monday morning, your mum or dad could be informed
immediately – either by a text message to their mobile, or an automated voice
message to your home phone.
Because
it’s instant, it’s goodbye to handing a crudely forged sick note to your
teacher the next day. And it’ll
be no good getting up early to catch the post and dispose of any awkward letters
from the school either.
After
this system helped to cut truancy in the handful of schools in which it has
already been piloted, a national trial it is set to be rolled out across 160
secondary schools. Here in
Inverclyde, roughly 3 of our schools should be selected to take part in the
scheme.
You
might not like it, but, as your parents often tell you, you’ll thank us for
this one day. Or, as they might be
saying soon, GT BK 2 SKL B4 I KILL U.
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