LTKA - Please tell a friend about school fingerprinting (against schools fingerprinting our children)

This is the single most important thing you can do to help us.

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Until recently, the State only fingerprinted criminals. As parents at a primary school in Cambridge, we were horrified to learn that all this is changing.

(read what the BBC said: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2144188.stm )

In 3,500 primary schools across the UK, impressionable children aged from 5 to 11 are being fingerprinted. 3/4 of a million have already been processed, and 20 schools a week are joining the scheme. If you're a parent, your school could be next. But even if you're not, is this really the kind of society we want to live in?

The whole process may be illegal. We haven't found a single parent who was ever asked for their permission. Many were not even informed until afterwards. Some parents only found out when they asked their children "what did you do at school today?"

But at our school, in Cambridge, concerned parents decided to do something about the multi-million pound business of fingerprinting 5-year-olds without asking permission.

To find out what happened, and how you can help us, please visit http://www.LeaveThemKidsAlone.com

Your child could be next.

Why does it all matter? Because a PIN number or library card is something you have - they can easily be replaced - a fingerprint is something you are - it's yours for life.

For some reason, this story hasn't been splashed across the front pages of the newspapers, or featured prominently on the TV news. Please help us to spread the word so as many people as possible find out what's going on. It's the only way we're going to get this stopped.

* * Please forward this whole email, including this request, to any friends or colleagues who might be interested. Thank you. * *

Concerned Parents, St Matthew's Primary School, Cambridge

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Should primary schools ASK parents
BEFORE they fingerprint trusting young children?

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poll started at
11am on Monday
July 3rd 2006

Thanks to everyone who
helped us to reach
1000+ votes by
September 1st

"In my opinion... you should be asking 'should primary schools be fingerprinting our children at all?' Especially when you say that it is done at extra and unnecessary cost." Professor Peter F. Fisher, Department of Information Science, City University; Editor, International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

"Education, Education, Education" Tony Blair "Consent, Consent, Consent" Parents

We are campaigning to have the widespread use of biometrics in schools debated in Parliament, and henceforth strictly regulated and closely monitored, with a statutory requirement for explicit parental consent wherever biometrics are used.

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