"It sounds like a simple case of it's better to ask forgiveness than permission." Ive heard this phrase alot in my career. The article talks about kids coming home from school and telling their parents that they had to get their eyes scanned before getting on the school bus. To say the least, parents were absolutely appalled that their kids were getting their eye balls scanned without getting notification before hand. You would think that the school would AT LEAST send out a letter of notification prior to implementing this new policy. Instead of sending a letter out before hand, they sent a notification out afterwards (hints the better ask forgiveness than permission) asking parents if they wanted to opt out of the scans for their kids. If I was in their shoes I would be upset as well. You would want to know why they are doing these scans..is it for accountability purposes? Its not okay to implement a new policy and not let anyone know. One of the district administers, for goodness sake didn't know who authorized the guy to inset the iris scanners on the school buses. On top of that the proposed contract wasn't even signed. You would think if work was being done to implement the iris scanners on the bus, that the contract would be signed and the appropriate people would have been notified.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57589718-83/school-iris-scanned-students-without-telling-parents/
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