Bar-Code Reform

By Bruce E. Buxton

Now that we have the technology (and a bottomless appetite for it) isn't it time we used that technology to reform education once and for all?

The advantages of the scheme I propose are so immediate and obvious that I'm sure other educators have thought of it, too, and quickly repressed the notion as unprofessional and impious. But sometimes impious is sobering, especially in a profession whose arteries are clogged with pieties. So I offer this suggestion as an exercise in sobriety: Suffer the little children to be bar-coded!

Implant scanners in the teachers' heads. Bill the parents or school districts the same way lawyers...