School IDs

School IDs

Desert Vista High School requires that students wear IDs when on campus grounds. This plastic card is meant to give teachers and staff a way to identify students and ensure our campus stays safe from intruders. In reality students rarely wear their IDs and the campus remains wide open to anyone who cares to enter.

“School IDs are pointless because most students don’t wear them and most security guards don’t tell you to wear them,” said sophomore Quincy Rapacki. 

At the beginning of the year, security is very strict about student identification. They require students to wear them every day or face punishment. As terrifying as that is, about a month into school, students neglect to wear said IDs and security gives up on enforcing them. This benefits no one.

“Personally I don’t think IDs’ improve my safety at school,” sophomore Jacob Drewencki said. “It doesn’t really prevent anything.”

When students forget their credentials they are often sent to the office to take care of the problem. There, a plain paper acts as a substitute for the real identification. The scary thing is, anyone can replicate the same paper and pretend to be a student at the school.

In the end student IDs’ are effective the first few weeks of school but useless for the remainder of the year. No one wears them around campus or on school grounds. Even the security guards rarely enforce them. Desert Vista students should not be required to wear their credentials for these reasons.