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Irregular News for 10.19.06
Silver Sprints, MD -- Students at Montgomery Blair High School are upset about a new policy requiring them to wear color-coded identification badges.
The new badges issued two weeks ago are color-coded by the students' grades, and the lanyards worn around their necks designate 11 categories of learning "academies" represented at the 3,000-student campus in Silver Spring, Md.
Color-Coded Student IDs -- Good Or Bad?
Seniors wear black badges, students in magnet programs wear white and those who have limited English proficiency wear yellow.
Principal Phillip Gainous said they thought they were doing a good thing. They hoped to build a sense of identity and security for students at a school where students are broken into smaller learning communities.
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But students said the system emphasizes existing divisions among the students.
"I don't like lanyards labeled senior, junior and freshmen because a couple of freshmen got jumped because they wore red," said student Arel Lewis.
Gainous said he believes students are most upset about the penalties for not wearing them, which range from a verbal warning to an in-school suspension.
Intentionally breaking the rule can mean a detention for the first infraction and suspension for the second.
Many of the lanyards did not arrive in time for the start of the school year and were only recently passed out to students.
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Silver Sprints, MD -- Students at Montgomery Blair High School are upset about a new policy requiring them to wear color-coded identification badges.
The new badges issued two weeks ago are color-coded by the students' grades, and the lanyards worn around their necks designate 11 categories of learning "academies" represented at the 3,000-student campus in Silver Spring, Md.
Color-Coded Student IDs -- Good Or Bad?
Seniors wear black badges, students in magnet programs wear white and those who have limited English proficiency wear yellow.
Principal Phillip Gainous said they thought they were doing a good thing. They hoped to build a sense of identity and security for students at a school where students are broken into smaller learning communities.
Watch The Report
But students said the system emphasizes existing divisions among the students.
"I don't like lanyards labeled senior, junior and freshmen because a couple of freshmen got jumped because they wore red," said student Arel Lewis.
Gainous said he believes students are most upset about the penalties for not wearing them, which range from a verbal warning to an in-school suspension.
Intentionally breaking the rule can mean a detention for the first infraction and suspension for the second.
Many of the lanyards did not arrive in time for the start of the school year and were only recently passed out to students.
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