<p>Topic: Some high schools require students and staff to wear name badges any time they are on school property. Some people feel this is an effective measure to take against unauthorized school visitors. Opponents say that so many students will refuse to wear the badge or simply leave it at home that identifying unwanted visitors will be made no easier. In your opinion, should schools mandate that all students and staff wear a name badge to aid an identifying unaffiliated visitors?</p>
<p>Essay:</p>
<p>What is happening to American high schools? A new suggestion about students and teachers wearing badges has become a requirement in some high schools. It is believed that this policy will serve as an effective measure to identify unauthorized school visitors. However, such requirement may be superfluous and just complicate lives of students and faculty.
While some may say that wearing a badge everyday does not cause any significant difficulties, such mandatory measure can notably affect school atmosphere. Students who on average spend most of their days at school want to feel there like at ‘second home’. Badges create some officiality; you would expect to see a badge on a stranger so you could familiarize yourself with this person. However, you would not want to see badges on your friends who you already know. Badges’ policy transforms into an additional encumbrance.
Not only does this measure impact the atmosphere at school but also requires to increase school’s budget. Printing badges will not cost nothing, and students will be likely to occasionally lose their compact identity cards. Also, does this policy mean that parents, prospective students, and other people who don’t possess the badge just will not be allowed to enter the territory of the school? Not everyone without a badge is a dangerous unauthorized guest. For example, some student’s mom will definitely feel embarassed and miffed if the school security does not let her into the building because she did not stick an identity card to her T-shirt.
Albert Einstain once said, ‘The only source of knowledge is experience’. If schools reconsider badge policy and correct the existing disadvantages, maybe it is worth experimenting and trying it out. However, in the form that badge form is presented today, it would not be useful and helpful.</p>