It was with a little fanfare of trumpets that St Andrew's College in Dublin today announced it has rolled out a biometric student registering solution which allows the reading of kids' fingerprints without physically storing an image of same.
The TruancyGuard system - deployed by thrustingly-monikered Adrenalin - is being tested on one unfortunate class from the second year. School head Arthur Godsil explained the rationale: "Every morning it is the responsibility of the form teacher to register all pupils. This is a time consuming but necessary process as for safety reasons we need to know the whereabouts of our students at all times. However, if we can place the responsibility of registration directly on the pupils, this will free the individual form teachers' time to provide greater pastoral care to the students at that time."
