Compulsory lanyards. Any other schools?

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So my dc school are brining in compulsory lanyards. It's a small secondary, around 600 children. They have their photo/info on the front and on the back, all their behaviour points.They spent a whole day going through this on the first day back.

I really don't see the need for this. Since the new headteacher has arrived its started to be like a boot camp.. Really strict rules and sanctions. I think they're preparing to join the really strict academy that are taking over the schools around here.

I've never heard of secondary school children wearing lanyards well it's the school around here that is.

Why bother with tech at all, really? We managed perfectly well without it for many years.

Safeguarding is a huge deal these days. My DC's school have had instances of people trying to force their way in - prevented by pass activated access doors.
Students can refuse to tell a teacher who they are (or claim they are someone else). Schools are much larger - OP's school is pretty small by today's standard - and it's less likely that individual teachers will know you.

More useless plastic too.

After all the actual uses have been clearly described?

Sixth form dd has two (one for each school as split between two) but they are passcards and obviously kids aren't in uniform and need some ID. DD2 has a bracelet like the swimming locker ones that works as a keycard - lets her into her house and (i think) other classrooms. No photo id though she is in school uniform and it's a smaller school.

Very common in London : where I am state schools mostly have lanyards, private schools ID cards but it’s students choice if it’s round their neck or on a clip on the blazer (or loose in their pocket so their parents get billed £100 over the course of the year for replacement cards: looking at you DS1)

This. A much better preparation for uniform at work. All the workplaces I have been in have lanyards and access card. It makes it much easier to see who shouldn't be there.

See that group over there in hoodies? Are they students who need to be told to go to lessons as Year 9 break has finished, or are they members of a gang here to terrorise a child, relatives of somebody expelled from here going to find that headteacher and pay them back?

They've come in with the main bulk of students as the gate was opened, would the kids have said anything about a gangleader walking in with them wearing a black jacket and trousers like their uniform?

Somebody hasn't arrived to registration or lessons, but left home this morning. Who fancies running around the two acre site and checking if they're hiding - or shall we just look at Inventry and see they bleeped in at 8.45am and went to a music lesson down that corridor, rather than freak the parent out? Or no, they're not in lesson, must be absent, when they are in and doing something they shouldn't.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Fair enough......

My DC is primary so haven't encountered this yet but I see found lunch cards plastered all over Facebook for secondary school children in our area, with the child's picture and full name. I can't help but think this must be really stressful for the parents of children who need to protect their DCs identity eg adopted children. I wonder what school do about this?

My dc wore them in sixth form.

One of the most popular secondaries locally has had them for many years for all years. Don’t see the issue tbh.

DD is 28 and had one when she started senior school at 11, so very normal. I bought them double holders fo their bus passes fitted as well.

Agree also with @110APiccadilly (great name!! Love those books) that it’s more likely you’ll wear a lanyard than a sixth form suit at work tbh.

At DS's old state school you had to pay a deposit for the lanyard which you got back when it was returned at the end of their time there. School then used them again and again and again and again.... They aren't exactly single use.

Staff in all kinds of occupations wear a lanyard. They’ve been in schools for ages. I don’t see a problem.

Very normal

Is it safe to have stuff hanging round kids necks? thinking of fights/strangling/getting caught and choking?

Sounds unpleasantly corporate for little kids anyway.

they have a little safety clip and would open up if pulled too hard.

If you tug on them the connector pops open so you can’t get strangled. Safety feature!

Ours all have break points.

Normal to have a lanyard here in Scotland. The high school is a community campus so some facilities are shared with public. Kids have to scan themselves through to the school and also pay for lunch. No behaviour points though and tbh DS is forgetful so his is a plain white card as he lost the original.

Colleges have lanyards and a lot of workplaces require staff to wear lanyards too.

What's your problem?

If you tug on them the connector pops open so you can’t get strangled. Safety feature!

Not if a kid is fighting and actively trying to strangle another one - you can grab it beyond the connector.

If you want clothing that prepares you for the workplace, it is wearing a lanyard.

I have never understood the pro safeguarding argument to this - on a local bus the other day I could
identify the school, year group and full names of a group of girls because they all had lanyards on. So effectively I have means to track them pretty successfully if I wanted to 🤷🏻‍♀️

Like school ties ?

if a violent criminal thug wants to harm someone there are plenty of implements around in everyday life.