Smart uniforms tracking dropouts

Students in northeastern Brazil are wearing uniforms fitted with 'mission' computer chips that promptly alert parents if their children drop out of school.

The Sao Paulo City Department of Education director Coriolano Moraes said that 20,000 students in 25 of 213 public schools in the City of Vitoria da Conquista will start wearing uniformed uniforms from early next week.

By 2013, all students at Sao Paulo's 43,100 public schools, aged 4 to 14 years old, will be equipped with chips to wear in their uniforms.

Smart uniforms tracking dropouts.

'Smart uniforms' will notify parents when their children are truant by sending a text message to their mobile phone. At the same time, parents continue to receive notification if their children are not in class after 20 minutes when the class starts.

However, a student who is absent 3 times will have to explain his / her absence.

The city of Sao Paulo has invested $ 670,000 to design, test and attach microchips to students' uniforms.

The chips are attached below each student's sleeve or one of the sleeves below with an idiom: 'Education does not change the world. Education changes people and people transforming the world '.

Also according to Mr. Moraes, the student uniform can be washed and washed without damaging the chips. Moreover, these chips have a security system where student intervention or damage seems impossible.

City Vitoria da Conquista is the first city in Brazil and 'may be the first place in the world' to use this device.