By Sakeyla Spencer
Staff Reporter
            Every day students hear a teacher, assistant principal, or security guard asking, “Where is your I.D. (identification card)?” or “Put your lanyard on.”
            The student handbook states, “Students must display their student body identication cards around their neck at all times on a school approved lanyard, and are required to show it to a staff member when requested to do so.”
            Some students can tolerate it, while others cannot.
            Crystal Benton, a sophomore, does not like the fact that students have to wear their I.D all the time, while some teachers don’t. “That’s just not fair. If the teachers don’t have to wear them all the time, why do we.”
            Benton said. “And if they can wear them anywhere, I think we should be allowed to as well, that’s just unfair.” 
            “It important to wear your I.D.," security guard Gabe Castro said.
            “Look at it from a safety angle, if something was to happen, we would know who the student is, their information, and if they belong to the school or not,” Castro said
            Students at have their own opinions about the I.D policy.
            The policy has been in effect for a few years. The District Safety Team came up with the idea for many reasons.
            Assistant Principal Joni McGinnis agrees with Castro.
            “It’s for your safety. We are preparing students for the global and work force,” McGinnis said. “When you have a job, you always wear a name tag on your shirt, so that people can address you.” 
            “When there are big events like football or basketball games, we know who you are, if you have a THS lanyard or not,” she said. “It’s like whoa! Wait are those our kids, West kids, or Kimball kids?” McGinnis said
            On average each day about 20-30 students do not have their I.D. and have to go in to get a temporary one for the day.
            “I tell kids all the time, “McGinnis said, “Go and buy an extra, I.D. and lanyard, and store it in my office, so that when you get to school you won’t be like Ughh! (making a blank face) I don’t have my I.D.’ And then you’ll think, ‘Oh yeah, I have an extra one in McGinnis’s office’,” McGinnis said.
            Students must wear their I.D. at all times or face consequences.
            Consequences include: First offense-warning, second/third offense-lunch detention, fourth offense and beyond-suspension from school.