What's next? Will the Jewish students be required to wear a badge with a yellow star on it???
If you ask me I would say it is a violation of the 5th Amendments, forcing kids to wear badges that have their photos and names on them.
Well yea, in addition to a violation of the 13th Amendment, because basically the state of Arizona is forcing the kids into slavery by requiring them to go to high school until they are 16, which is a violation of the 13th Amendment.
Per the 13th Amendment you can only force people into slavery when they have been convicted of a crime, allowing the government to sent them to prison as a slave for punishment of the crime they were convicted of.
Paradise Valley high-school students will be required to wear ID badges
By Amy B Wang The Republic | azcentral.com Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:20 PM
Starting this school year, all high-school students in the Paradise Valley Unified School District must wear identification badges at all times while on campus.
The new policy is part of an increased “sight security” effort, said PVUSD student services Director Jim Lee. The district’s five high schools and one alternative school will require wearing the badges — affecting about 11,000 students total.
“It’s kind of a safety and accountability measure of who should be on campus,” Lee said. “If a staff member is having an interaction with a student on campus, they can verify who they’re talking to.”
The district already issues photo-identification cards to all of its high-school students at the beginning of each school year. This year will be no different, except the photography companies taking student photos will provide lanyards free of charge, Lee said.
In the past, school officials required students to carry these identification cards with them at all times and students had to produce them if asked. Now, if they don’t wear the badges, they will face a series of warnings that differ at each high school.
Students had mixed reactions to the new policy.
Wyatt Wagner, an incoming junior at Shadow Mountain High School, said he has heard of people posing as different students on campus.
But even though he can see why the district would want to require badges, Wagner thinks it will be too much for schools to enforce the rule.
“I heard about it a couple months before school ended,” Wagner said. “Nobody’s going to actually follow through with it. There’s going to be too much trouble going on.”
“I don’t think it’s really that much of a big deal to have it on you,” said Nick Anderson, a senior at Shadow Mountain High School. “But also, 16- to 18-year-olds should be able to be trusted to be at your own school at your own time.”
Paradise Valley’s new policy is similar to one the Scottsdale Unified School District adopted last year, with mixed success. Not wearing badges in Scottsdale meant a dress-code violation for students, and the district reported that dress-code violations were up 900 percent this year.
Republic reporter Mary Beth Faller contributed to this article.