Lexington County School District One added photograph identification badges for all district high school students, middle school students, school employees and district employees last spring.

Employees and students will wear these badges at all times while they are at school and while they travel to and from school on regular school buses and for field trips.

Under most circumstances, students will not be expected to wear their ID badges while participating in athletic or extracurricular events.

In certain classroom situations (i.e. art, lab, P.E., band, orchestra), it will be the teacher’s responsibility to determine if the badge poses a distraction or safety threat.

These photographic identification badges provide the student with identification that may be used when purchasing meals, checking out materials from the media center, and providing identification to staff members.

Student must show their ID badges to staff members immediately upon request. Refusal to do so is a suspension offense. The district will purchase one badge and one detachable lanyard for each student at the beginning of school.

If a student misplaces his/her badge or leaves it at home, that student must get a temporary badge from the school office to wear that day. If a student goes to class without his/her identification badge, his/her teacher will send him/her to the office to get a temporary badge for that day. When the student gets the temporary badge, he/she may also receive a discipline assignment for not having the issued badge.

If a student loses, defaces, or destroys his/her badge, that student must get a new badge. Each replacement badge costs $5.00.

A student who repeatedly needs a temporary badge, who alters his/her badge in any way, or who fails to wear his/her badge properly suspended on neckwear and visible near the middle of the chest, will be assigned the following:

1st Violation

2nd Violation

3rd Violation

Additional Violations

Student conference held.

Student conference held.

Student receives detention.

Student receives detention.

These measures will be administered on a semester or term basis.