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Jobsite Biometric Time Clocks Have Recently Been Considered for Use in Our Schools, Forcing Teachers to be Scanned as They Enter or Leave Their School Site- NWO.

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Employers see jobsite biometric time clocks as a basic necessity in the workplace.

Instead of using a basic sign in sheet or punch card, employees have to scan their hands to clock in and out of their jobs.

With biometric time clocks, no one can sign in for them. This is what happens a lot with teachers in schools today.

Buddy punching is what they call it. A friend leaves an hour early and has his or her friend punch them out at the correct time.

Imposing this measure on teachers shows a gross disregard for the profession and a lack of understanding of their circumstances.

Teachers work hard for little pay, and a good number of them do not even receive health insurance.

So if the schools cannot even provide health insurance for their employees why on earth would they purchase a machine that is expensive and is not a necessity?

The government says that the machine provides security, but how?

If its primary use is for a company’s employees, how does this protect the company? Visitors do not have to sign in to work.

The cost of jobsite biometric time clocks should give pause for thought.

A typical price for jobsite biometric time clocks is anywhere from $500 to $1500 per unit.

Schools are always complaining that they do not receive enough money; teachers are always complaining that they do not get paid enough, and yet, schools can afford a biometric time clock.

And these machines are not always completely accurate, especially the cheaper models.

There are cheap ways of stopping cheating on traditional time cards.

For, example one of the schools security guards could stand by the clock-in sheet and make sure that no one is cheating or buddy punching.

Anyway, making an issue out of this is overblown and insensitive. Teachers barely earn enough to make a living, with most teachers continue working into the night hours.

They have to grade papers and contrive lesson plans; they do not get paid extra for this.

So what: one or two teachers may cheat a little on the time clocks. That does not justify a Big Brother response.

And it is not good economics for the school management to purchase a superfluous machine when the school could put the money to better use.

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The Dubious Benefits of Jobsite Biometric Time Clocks

When a teacher first enters a school, he or she they walks up to the jobsite biometric time clock and place a hand, usually the right, on the scanner.

The scanner then reads their fingerprints and identifies the person.

This is hardly an activity to engender a positive approach to the job. No one wants to feel like a barcode and be scanned every day.

In addition to that, signing in or punching in is pretty much guaranteed to work.

Scanning, just like when some one is in a check out line at the grocery store, does not always work.

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Barcodes and Jobsite Biometric Time Clocks

If a person’s hand is sweaty or they have a little dirt before they clock into work, the machine will not scan it.

Just like, when frozen food is scanned the moisture makes it hard for the scanner to read the barcode; sometimes the machine will not scan it at all.

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Tying Biometric Time Clocks to Teachers’ Income

Now if you are a teacher and you are having a problem getting the machine to work, the odds are, you are going to be late for class.

If income is linked to time clocks, then he or she can lose money from though biometric time clocks.

If teachers have to scan their hands repeatedly because the machine will not read it then they are losing money, and that is not fair.

Or what about the extra time they have to spend hunting down the person who fixes the machine?

This whole process through in through is just annoying and humiliating.

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