[deogeo]

The stated aims of the system are easily covertly expanded (and there is ample history to indicate that will happen) to turn the school into a panopticon, building a social graph and personality profile of kids as they grow up.

To me this looks like an openly hostile act.

[ErikVandeWater]

If the kids are allowed to know their "social scores" many of them will compete to get the lowest to be cool. I kind of hope the administrators make this mistake. It would give me great Schadenfreude.

[sys_64738]

I thought only Communist China had social scores. Has it spread to the USA too?

[beenBoutIT]

If it allows the school to accurately identify the most promising students it's worth it. How many kids with potential fall through the cracks now?

[Bjartr]

All[1] of them. All the kids. They all have the potential for fulfilling lives that contribute to society.

[1] Fine, almost all, there will be exceptions, but the goals of the education system should include making exceptions as rare as possible. At the very least I'll claim a belief that achieving a low enough rate of exceptions so as to make them negligible in practice.

[deogeo]

Slightly better schools are worth this massive police state expansion? We could save many lives lost to crime each year if we forced everyone to wear ankle monitors all the time too - wouldn't that be even more worth it?