The Hazleton Area School District in Pennsylvania announced Friday that it would provide more free school lunches to students. However, the school lunch program requires students to scan their thumbprints so that the government can track their purchases.
In this new practice, each student needs to put his or her fingerprint on the biometric scanner before receiving the free meal. The federal government introduced this biometric initiative to ensure that school districts are providing more free meals to students after giving out incentives, according to Citizen's Voice.
The administrators admitted that they aren't certain on the security of the data.
As expected, some parents who found out about the school lunch program scanning their children's fingerprints are against it.