fluffy wrote:
I am stunned you still have to have an ID badge after teaching there how many years?
My good news is that the Doc said I was 80 percent recovered and I was lucky I was so healthy before I got sick or the recovery would have taken 6 to 8 months
I have trouble wrapping my head around that.
6-8 months? Yikes!!! I'm glad you're nearly back to full health. That's gotta be rough going through that. It took me a week last year before I started feeling normal again, and I thought THAT was a long time.
We just started doing the ID badge thing last year as schools become more security conscious. The administrators implemented the program for students and staff without any staff input. All students were issues lanyards color coded by grade with id badges attached to the end of them. A number of students decided it was fun to chew in the badges, thus destroying them. Many of the students would leave them at home or in their lockers. Students without them were supposed to get temporary badges from one of the secretaries, thus giving her a ton of extra work. Since there were no penalties for noncompliance, there was no real incentive for wearing them.
This year, they altered the strategy a bit by having teachers send down lists of names for students without badges and students were supposed to be issued detentions for not wearing them too many times, but this was not enforced. For the second card marking, they switched to having teachers in 1st hour pass out temporary badges and issuing Saturday school detentions for every third offense or for each individual offense after 1st hour. This has curbed the noncompliance somewhat, but too many students still carry them in their pocket or leave them in their locker instead of wearing them like they are supposed to. I think the policy is kind of stupid, but we're supposed to enforce them.
there is no penalty for teachers no wearing them, though most do wear them. I clip mine to my lunch bag each day so I can put it on when I go to work. Ours are on a clip instead of a lanyard. If they were on lanyards, I wouldn't wear it so I can see why the students don't particularly want to.
