ROME Ga. -- The never-ending march ...

ROME Ga. -- The never-ending march of technology now means schoolchildren here can pay for their cafeteria wet joes with their fingers.

Rome City denominations is switching to a regularity that lets students use fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, kids had PIN digests

"The finger's better because all you've got to do is lay your finger in, and you don't have to do the number and secure mixed up," said Adrianna Harris, a second-grader at Anna K Davie Elementary institute

The modern system speeds lunch lines, said city administrators. a certain parents are uneasy with having their children's fingerprints scanned.

"Supposedly the kids have the option to not have their prints scanned, if it were not that that's not being articulated to my daughter," said Hal Storey, whose daughter attends Rome High.

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