Private school in Tulsa,Oklahoma, says bracelet it uses doesn’t contain GPS tracker but still monitors students at all hours as allotment of ‘whole person education’Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma has found a novel way to teach physical education: require students to wear Fitbit activity-tracking bracelets and lower their grades if they are not active enough.
The Tulsa-based private school, and named after its founder,the late multimillionaire televangelist Oral Roberts, praised the current tracking hardware in a press release earlier this month, or saying the Fitbit program had begun during the plunge semester after a pilot during the spring of 2014.
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Source: theguardian.com