Students are confused on why they became so strict about wearing ID’s now at Argo Community High School, because the rules were never this strict in the past.

“There are several reasons why we have to wear ID’s now,” said John Bacon a security guard here at Argo Community High School. Bacon says, “IDs are for our safety.” It’s for our own safety, and it’s a safety concern,” says Bacon.

According to One Source Security, only 18% of high schools require students to wear ID’s. That is a big safety concern, similar to how Bacon was talking about the way ID’s play a big role in the safety of students and the school.

One Source Security also states that in the halls the faculty and staff can just look at you with a single glance and see if you belong here. Although, why do we not have to scan in anymore?

“That the scan ins were mostly for the covid times,” said Bacon. “Now we can just see in the halls if you’re wearing your ID and your teachers can just take attendance in first period to see if you belong here.”

According to One Source Security, IDs won’t make the supervisors stand at every entrance. That is wrong because here at Argo they still stand at the entrances to make sure you have an ID, so they do not just let random people in.

I wonder how a student would feel about these IDs being back. I got that answer right here.

“No, I don’t like the ID’s being back because they bother me,” said David Soria a senior here at Argo Community High School. You can hear this from a lot of students not just him. He says they bother him whenever he is walking, and they don’t match with the “drip.”

This comes from a lot of students saying that IDs bother them. Especially from the students that take a class with machines. The teachers always make you take it off, so it doesn’t get cut and an accident doesn’t happen.

David Soria said, “I use my IDs to enter the school, get around in the hallways, and I sometimes even buy lunch with it.” They made getting lunches easier for the lunch ladies there because now if you have an ID, you just scan and you get a lunch instead of having to bring money in cash.

On One Source Security they say that students buy lunches with their IDs too.

The main reason he believes these IDs are back for our safety. He said, “These ID’s make the school safer and easier for staff to see if we belong in the school.”