The new ID policy is being heavily enforced this year, and some students at Bowie have been pushing back the entire time, saying the IDs are useless and annoying. 

Students who complain about wearing their IDs are being overly dramatic and they are refusing to see the true purpose of them.

Some students only think IDs are stupid because they think it isn’t benefiting them in any way. If it doesn’t benefit them, they want nothing to do with it. Wearing an ID is not as big of an inconvenience as everyone is making it out to be, it weighs practically nothing, and you forget it’s there when wearing it.

You can’t be annoyed by wearing an ID if you don’t even have one. Students forget and lose their IDs constantly. When the teacher goes around to do an ID check, they get in trouble, and they have to go get one from the office, which irritates the student and the teacher.

The staff is not enforcing the ID policy just to listen to students complain about them. I have heard an incredible amount of ridiculous ideas from students about why we have to wear them, but the real reason is that we are trying to stay safe. Wearing an ID while walking through the door or around the halls shows that you are a student at Bowie, not a random person trying to get onto campus. We are trying to avoid the worst possible situations, and the IDs help with that.

One common complaint is that remembering an ID is difficult. A solution to this is when the last bell rings, take your ID off and put it in your backpack for the next day. When your teacher asks where your ID is the next day, you can just pull it out of your backpack.

A more specific complaint I have heard from my peers is that IDs don’t really do anything. Like I said before, this is not true at all. IDs help the teachers and staff see who is going in and out of the school, and they can look for who is not wearing one and check if they are really a student. There are other uses like purchasing lunch, checking out library books among other things.

One thing that I think would get more students to wear their IDs is if we could customize them. We would keep the same information on the card, but we could make them different colors and fonts. Even the school providing more fun and interesting lanyards would get more students to wear them.

Students that complain about wearing IDs just can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that Bowie is trying their best to keep us safe. Complaining about something like that, especially when it barely affects you, is just dramatic.