With a new school year comes new rules. Students must now have their Student Identification on them at all times. The identification cards are used for the new tardy system and getting into activities such as school dances and the ACT. Without them, harsh consequences will be put into force.

The IDs are not only used for a form of identification for students, but are they are being used for much more this school year. If you are tardy to class, you must go to a kiosk and scan your ID and receive a slip for your class. If a student doesn’t have their ID on them at all times or has multiple tardies there could be consequences such as Saturday school and possibly AAP.

“We can replace them, but the cost is five dollars,” assistant principal Jennifer Gray said. “If you don’t replace them and you are caught when you need to scan it, Saturday school.”

Though the implication of the student IDs seems plausible, there are many faults that come along with it. The new rule is controversial for the students in many ways including the added stress of making sure they have it on them at all times. Leaving the house without a purse or wallet can land them in Saturday school. Enforcing a whole new rule all at once can be hard, many of our students think the rule is unneeded.

“At the beginning of the year the administration had all these plans of implementing the whole student IDs at all times,” Junior Kelli Long said “but I just think it’s a waste of time because it is just one more thing to be worried about when we already have so much more important things to be concerned about.”