WHS students must wear IDs

By Ed Baker
Mon Feb 16, 2009, 12:39 PM EST

Weymouth High School students look more like employees at a business firm with the new identification cards they must wear while attending class or a school event.
The identity card contains a student’s picture that is attached to a neck lanyard
“We’ve introduced a new ID card,” said Weymouth High Principal Anthony Pope to the school committee on Feb. 12. . “We are one of the only high schools in the area that requires students to display the ID around their neck.”
School officials previously required students to carry a picture ID in their wallet or pocketbook but they did not have to display it except upon request by a teacher or administrator.
Students have been wearing the new ID’s since the second semester began a little more than a week ago.
“The students must wear the ID at all times,” Pope said. “We see this as a requirement for school safety purposes. We want to be able to identify our students if there is an incident.”
He said the students have been quite cooperative with wearing the ID’s.
“The students have done an amazing job,” Pope said. “I stood in the connecting corridor one day and saw about 90 kids walk by that were wearing their ID’s. We still have 2 percent of the school population that we are working with to get them in the habit of wearing the ID’s.” Read More...