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> The school could simply use RFiD cards for tracking attendance.

They actually studied this as well as the facial recognition system. Two different classrooms over an 8 week period.

The biggest problem they found with the RFID system;

> During the first week of testing (week 41) 38% of pupils didn’t bring their tag at each lesson, while in the second week of testing (week 42) 47% forgot it. [1]

[1] - http://pages.tieto.com/rs/517-ITT-285/images/SummaryFutureCl...



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