Students should not have to wear ID tags
May 11, 2016
Dear Editor,
ID tags are silly! Students spend half and or the entirety of their school year with the same teachers, ID tags do nothing more than cause a bothersome raucous for students! [and teachers alike] No one is going to be sneaking into the school any time soon and many students are dripping with uncomfortable feelings of dread if they realize they have forgotten a lanyard or a small ID with the same face they’ve had their entire lives.
If anyone remembers, way back in the early grades students weren’t even allowed to wear long necklaces or chains because they were a choking hazard. Someone could, in a fit, bully a student with their necklace– bully as in suffocate by pulling and yanking on the bit around their neck.
Now we’re right back to that, and we can’t even decide to say no!
It makes sense to wear it for the beginning of the year while everyone gets to know everyone. But after that, ID’s are nothing but nuisances. Sure, you may wear one in a work setting but they most certainly won’t charge you to buy another if you forget it at home, or keep you in a quiet room full of others who either did things much worse or nothing at all!
Lacey Strouse
Senior
Amanda Graff • May 24, 2016 at 9:07 AM
I don’t have a problem with wearing them, I just don’t think students should get ACE for forgetting.
Lacey S • May 25, 2016 at 9:10 AM
This is a fine middle ground.
Students should not be so cruelly treated for such a simple, stupid act. [That, is more often than not a mistake]
A bad student will choose not to wear,a good student will be bombarded with work and forget.
Kenneth Choo • May 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM
Id’s are a safety precaution. They are in place to identify that students belong to our school and are not sneaking into school. They also make sure that students can rightfully be identified when they are questioned by security. Even though they are a nuisance, they are for our own good.
Lacey S • May 13, 2016 at 9:18 AM
This is true, or at least so says the school.
But, after a while more precautions do not continue to help with safety.
If one was to take note, no security guard or teacher will check the ID of the student they’re questioning, and if they were one[the student] who decided to take it off.. not wearing it doesn’t change the fact it as an identifier, an unused one though.[so nothing changes in this situation, the person asks who it is.. and that’s that] [Sneaking into the school is mighty difficult when doors are locked, ignoring the possibility of a lot of students or teacher propping open doors for some reason, no one can come in without being noticed. And at that point…..
The ID is an extra used to scan a student for entry, so long as someone is not coming in late.. they do not need the ID, sure sometimes school workers will tell students to put on their ID’s when walking in.. but without checking what they actually look like, it does nothing…. [ anyone could just slip on any predominantly black,white badge and it looks perfectly legit.]
It would be perfectly reasonable to want students to keep ID’s with them so if asked they had ‘proof’ of being a student, and their name.. but wearing them is nothing useful.