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Teacher unions have reacted angrily to the Federal Government’s plan to give every school student an identity number.
Education Minister Julia Gillard has revealed school student around the country will soon be assigned an identity number so their academic results can be tracked on the controversial My School website.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says it is a national identity card via the back door.
“I think that children should have names, not numbers, and I’m concerned about any proposal that seems to commodify our kids,” he said.
#1 by Tobias Ziegler on 1 March 2010 - 3:40 pm
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Let’s all change our names to Tony Abbott and see how uniquely identified he feels.
#2 by Toaf on 1 March 2010 - 7:55 pm
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Oh dear. First I LOLed. Then I realised I had no idea, so WTF?
#3 by Scott Bridges on 1 March 2010 - 8:05 pm
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#4 by Toaf on 2 March 2010 - 8:15 pm
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*earspalm*