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Dallas ISD uses GPS technology to reduce truancy
09:29 AM CDT on Friday, May 23, 2008
By KENT FISCHER / The Dallas Morning News
kfischer@dallasnews.com
For Joshua Cervantes, the black pouch clipped to his belt is a daily reminder of where he was, and where he’s now headed in high school.
Inside is a black Global Positioning System device that allows a truant officer to zero in on his location 24 hours a day. As a result, Joshua is now in school every day and, he said, thinking seriously – for the first time – about where he’s headed in life.
“The main thing is it got me thinking about my future,” said Joshua, a freshman at Bryan Adams High School. “What’s going to happen to me if I don’t care?”
Judge Rey Chavez, a county truancy judge, ordered Joshua and eight other students at Bryan Adams High School to wear the GPS unit. The school is completing its second year in The...
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