If my high school had required GPS-laced uniforms, my parents would have assumed I was headed for pilot training after graduation

School uniforms track kids
Parents already have a way to monitor kids' phone calls and text messages, and soon they might have the means to track children wearing school uniforms.

An English manufacturer of uniforms is considering adding satellite tracking devices to its line of school clothing so that parents can locate their child's whereabouts at all times, according to an article from the Daily Telegraph in Australia. The manufacturer, Lancashire-based Trutex, believes there is a demand for such clothing. In a recent survey of its own, the company found that 59 percent of 800 parents surveyed were interested in buying uniforms with embedded Global Positioning Systems.

Still, it seems unlikely that a teenager would willingly wear a GPS-laced outfit. According to the article, only half of kids 12 and under (who were surveyed) said that they wouldn't mind wearing the clothes.

I hope the manufacturers weren't surprised that the teenagers surveyed--and I'm willing to bet the ones who weren't surveyed would concur--would be unlikely to wear clothes that their parents can track.

My parents would have spent many nights wondering how my photography and art classes in high school tied into all those nights at the airport. What would your parents have wondered?


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