Patent ID: 6992566

Claim:
A method for accounting for students and teachers at a school, the method comprising the steps of: (A) providing each student and teacher a wireless identification module that comprises: a wireless transmitter; a wireless receiver; and an identification mechanism that uniquely identifies the wireless identification module; (B) determining at the beginning of a class period which students and teachers should be present in a selected classroom; (C) determining which of the students and teachers that should be present in the selected classroom are in fact present as indicated by the presence of their wireless identification module in the selected classroom; (D) reporting to a computer system the attendance records for the class as determined in step (C); and (E) automatically changing an “absent” in the attendance record to a “tardy” if a student that is not present at the beginning of the class period later enters the classroom, as determined by the presence of the student's wireless identification module.