Sunday, February 28, 2010
By MICHAEL McAULIFFE
mmcauliffe@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD - School Committee member Antonette E. Pepe was at Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical High School one day earlier this month and was very upset by something she did not see: a single student wearing an identification badge.
Pepe wants each of the city's nearly 25,500 public school students to wear an ID badge. The School Committee passed a policy in 2002 that middle school and high school students wear badges, but it has gone dormant.
"It's a major issue," Pepe said last week. "You want safety in the schools, and this is one of the ways to provide that."
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