Tag: ID

  • I.D Disaster

    We finally got our ID’s and they’re horrible. Everyone is complaining about how orange they look, how the quality of the picture is terrible, and how the layout is horrendous, which it is. I literally look like an orange in my picture. Honestly, who chose the photographers this year? Besides the quality of the picture the whole ID is messed up.

    Under gender, some people have their academy, also missing unscheduled periods, and mismatched ID’s. My friend’s ID had all her information but it wasn’t her picture, it was another girl! On the back, some people have the “2018-2019 Bell Schedule” which you might think they’re lucky but they are not because it is not even the schedule we follow. I’m pretty sure everyone has their unscheduled periods wrong or missing. Mine doesn’t even have them written, my other friends do, but they’re the wrong periods.

    This ID issue isn’t just about students complaining about the design and quality, we all need to show our ID at the gate when we enter. Since some people are still waiting for the ID printer, students still don’t have theirs making complications upon entering the school. If you come in through the side gate and you don’t have your ID, the staff member checking for them will most likely send you to enter through Jackrabbit Lane to get a temporary one, even though the people from the activities office said to tell them about the ID issue. That’s honestly a waste of time because if you live closer to the side gate then what’s the point in going all the way around!? The schedule or the temporary ID’s the freshmen got should be allowed to be used while the actual fixed ID’s are given out. Overall, these ID’s are a mess and super chaotic, hopefully it’s more organized next time!

  • IDs? ID Even Necessary?

    IDs? ID Even Necessary?

    It’s 7:27 A.M., I had three hours of sleep, and I’ve faced my inevitable fate that I am about to fail my Calculus quiz. I make my way from the parking lot to the Jackrabbit/Atlantic gate, dragging my feet, half asleep, trying to ignore how happy the kid in front of me sounds. I get to the gate and damn – my ID. I left it somewhere in the depths of the mess that is the backseat of my car. I whip out my sophomore-year ID (that somehow I have managed not to lose) from my backpack’s front pocket and wave it to the person who believes that he is the all-mighty guardian of the wonderful kingdom that is Poly. It has worked before; it is the way I have entered this palace since the beginning of the school year. However, this time it did not go over so well. I was stopped in my tracks and my ID was confiscated and ripped from my too-tired-to-function hands. (I was actually emotionally attached to that ID and am upset that it was forcibly taken.)
    After I was denied entrance into the holy land by the high and mighty ID Police, I was directed to get a temporary ID at the main gate. I did not argue the fact that I pass through that gate every single day, or complain that the girl before me passed through the gate without showing her ID because the guard knew her. Instead, I turned around and walked onto Jackrabbit Lane towards the main entrance only to be greeted by a long line of ID-less criminals waiting to be granted permission into the academic Promised Land.  I stood in the line for a split second, but chose to try my luck at the other gate. I was expecting that gate to be guarded, too, given that the first guy was stricter than Donald Trump at the Mexican-American border. But to my (not so much) surprise, it was not. I was actually more upset than relieved that it was not guarded because I was turned around at the first gate for not having my ID and was then expected to wait in a line to be given a temporary ID by a person who seems to hate this newly-enforced rule as much as students do.
    If students are expected to respect this rule, I suggest Poly does not enforce it merely half way. These temporary IDs are a waste of time and money. If the administration is actually worried with campus security, I expect them to have the gates guarded at all times that they are open, including during zero period and after school. Additionally, if you want me to willingly dig into my backpack to show you my ID, ask everyone for their IDs. The only injustice I hate more than partially enforcing rules is exceptions to the rules. So I argue that these ID checks at the gates are not only unnecessary but absurd and it makes students want to enter school even less than they already do. I once saw a kid leave campus because he was denied entry without his ID and apparently had one too many warnings. So please do not make it harder than it already is for students to go to school. It is seven in the morning, so cut us some slack.