Truant Students to Carry a GPS Device (Bryan, TX)

New Program in Bryan Makes Truant Students Carry a GPS Device
Bryan High students who skip school will soon be tracked 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Posted: 3:23 PM Jan 18, 2010
Reporter: Meredith Stancik

Bryan High students who skip school will soon be tracked 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's called the Attendance Improvement Management Program or AIM, and it has been used across Texas and the United States.

Students who find themselves in Brazos County Justice of the Peace Tommy Munoz's truancy court will be enrolled.

In fact, Tuesday morning the first group of Bryan truants will be given hand-held GPS tracking monitors and will receive one-on-one coaching to get them back to school.

"There are lots of programs that council and mentor students to stay in school," says AIM's CEO Travis Knox. "The AIM program is different since it provides students with accountability in addition to coaching."

Students on the program are tracked with a hand-held GPS device between the time they leave for school in the morning and the time they check in for curfew at night. After curfew, students receive individualized coaching.

"While tracking students is an important part of what we do, our coaching sessions are the most important part of the equation," says Knox. "Our coaches help students set short-term, attainable goals, starting with staying in school."

You may recall, JP Munoz announced his plans last year to implement the truancy program.

Nationwide, AIM has reported impressive results. Last Spring, students were maintaining a 97% attendance rate.

For more information on the AIM program, click on the link below

http://www.aimforattendance.com/

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[MrPoboy3]

i moved from Los Angeles to bryan tx in 1996 and went to BHS i missed school a few times and they sent the police to my house to try to take me to some camp, i wasnt havven dat shit I moved bacc to CALI in 97. they dont do that here, if u miss school u miss school.

[Swampymcswamp]

GPS tracking devices are going way too far. Invasive and against your permission to even do so.

[Catuxalina]

That scum Judge can shove a dildo up his constipated ass! Compulsory "education" is nothing more than brainwashing and slavery!

I hope something happens to that corrupt judge!

[bluecrash900]

Did the Judge went to far with the GPS tracking devices in the name of preventing truancy on Bryan High school in Texas?

vote on the poll at bigbrothertech . com

[cyberwraith05]

Additionally, while you are in the custody of the State, they can technically do anything they want to you, because they have custody of you. Look it up if you didn't know that, but when we take our kids to school and enroll them it clearly states where you kids leave your custody and enter into State custody while they are at school.

[sweetseasons1]

24/7?NO!WRONG!OUR KIDS NOT YOURS!!!!!!!!What MY CHILD does on the weekends is NONE of the school authorities buisness.

[cyberwraith05]

Yes, they have been carrying out this program for many years now, this is no new thing. Back then I got to the bottom of the issue, and it is the view of the policy makers that those inalienable rights guaranteed to every citizen by the Bill of Rights do not apply to those who are in State's custody(All children in public school) and under 18. Their logic is that you don't get your rights until you turn 18 and become an adult, as well as graduate high school and leave state custody(school).

[snellonlove]

Sick... what they do to the least of us, they are planning to do to ALL of us.

Get ready for the camps!!!