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Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor
Interesting. Here in California, it wouldn't work. Unless they made every officer memorize the license plate red-flag list, they are legally unable to pull you over until you violate a traffic law.
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Here in Vancouver the police are enlisting technology to assist with this problem....
on-car cameras automatically capture license plates and compare them to a database of stolen/unlicensed vehicles.
As to whether this a law like this is a good idea, so long as it allows the school officials some discretion as to when it is applied simply gives schools another tool to help encourage those few students who need a little extra encouragement to help focus on making a serious academic effort.... but like any tool it would need to be used wisely and judiciously. For instance a student with a learning disability may be serious, hard working and responsible, yet still fail a course. A normally dedicated student who is undergoing a personal crisis of some kind may miss several days of school. In neither case would it be appropriate to use this tool... but those decisions are best made on a case by case basis.
As for students who don't fit in to the traditional high school setting, at least here in BC there are a number of ways to complete graduation requirements, including on-line learning, alternative education centres and adult education programs. Students enrolled in these programs would not be considered academically deficient by our standards.
Based on my experiences as both a high-school student and high-school teacher, I believe that a law such as this -- used wisely and with discretion -- would help motivate some students, and certainly result in some small net benefit to both those students and society in general.
But mostly I just wanted to post the link to that cool license plate scanning video.
Jason