In the name of safety and convenience, thousands of schools around the nation are implementing digital bathroom passes that track and limit how many times a student can go to the bathroom during the school day. Some systems have the students use QR codes on their smartphones to be able to access the restroom. Other systems being sold to school districts use iPads. Some districts limit the student to seven bathroom passes a week! These digital systems even monitor which students are going to the bathroom at the same time so students cannot meet up. Time limits are even built into each bathroom break.
One district paid $30,000 a year for a complicated system to replace the long-used and cheap plastic or cardboard bathroom passes! Are they preparing students for the United Nations Agenda 2030 smart cities where your every personal move will be tracked and monitored and you need a digital ID to go anywhere or buy anything? Case in point: One student digital pass system even employs a social credits points system for good behavior like they have in Communist China's Orwellian digital ID tracking systems.[1]
The tracking systems are being sold to the schools as tools for safety. Fear and safety seem to be the common tactic to get people on board. There are several technology companies marketing digital bathroom pass systems. One such system, Smart Pass, is used in 50 states. The Smart Pass webpage states:
A Safer, Smarter Way to Optimize the School Day. Imagine a school where every movement is accounted for, the day's schedule flows smoothly, and safety is built into every movement. That is what you get with SmartPass and Flex-two powerful tools working together to transform how your school moves.[2]
According to Peter Luba the co-founder of Smart Pass:
"But much more happens in the background. SmartPass collects and analyzes data that provides schools with valuable information to improve student performance.[3]
SmartPass was acquired by Raptor Technologies, a worldwide leader in school safety software solutions. Raptor works with 60,000 schools globally and 3,000 K-12 schools nationwide.[4]
Another digital bathroom pass tech company, Minga, claims on its website that their system is in 43 states. Minga has created 16,981,243 digital hall passes (almost 17 million) and installed 96% of the student body with digital ID's which students rely on as their primary identification. They claim that the "progressive consequences of automation" ensures a "safer school environment." [5]
These companies claim that their digital bathroom pass technology promises safety because it will stop students from vandalizing the bathrooms, beating up students in the bathroom and vaping in the bathroom. I am curious how they can do that unless they install cameras, which they do not. Evidently, the short bathroom time allotted is supposed to stop these activities. It may cut them short, but I am not sure it can stop them from happening altogether. It is just another fear tactic being used.
Presently, there are seven companies in the US offering their services with either QR code systems or digital app-based technology:
The price for the bathroom tracking technology varies. In 2023 the Smart Pass was installed in St. Paul Minnesota schools for grades 6-12 at a cost of $30,000! In my research it was difficult to get pricing from all the companies because I was required to be an actual school official interested in their product to get pricing information for this opinion piece. I was only able to get a price range for two tech companies:
Minga: charges $13,000 for 1,500-student high school. That comes to $8.67 per student per year.[14]
Personally, I believe replacing cheap plastic or cardboard hall passes with expensive technology is a waste of money/tax dollars. Our son told me that his high school science teacher used a toilet seat for a bathroom pass!
When I was in grade school, (evidently during the dark ages), the nuns had us line up in the hallway silently with our arms folded outside the bathrooms several times a day. Arms were folded so we would not interact with one another/misbehave. If we needed to go again, we would ask Sr. Mary So and So for permission and it was granted. It seemed to work just fine and did not cost a cent. In high school we could ask the teacher to go during class time if it was urgent or we would wait for lunch hour, study hall or the period between changing classes to go. Usually, students would volunteer during study hours to be hall monitors just in case students started misbehaving. That system worked just fine, and it was free. Students did try to smoke a cig sometimes in the bathroom, but the smell of smoke usually gave them away.
Reminiscing aside, I am mainly concerned that these privacy-invasive digital tracking systems, some with social credit scoring for behavior, will make students feel comfortable accepting the UN Agenda 2030's Smart Cities where they will be tracked, monitored, and rewarded 24/7 for globalist compliant behavior.