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Sunday, September 20, 2009

School Fingerprints Pupils to Monitor Absenteeism

Students were fingerprinted yesterday as a Limerick secondary school introduced its own database in a hi-tech bid to monitor absenteeism.

But the Data Protection Commission is already investigating the school’s new security scanning system, styled on the popular TV crime series CSI.

The principal of Salesian College at Copsewood, Pallaskenry, however, emphasised that the school did not have an absenteeism problem.

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