Student ID cards
lbgjones
I read somewhere that it's a good idea to carry around student ID cards in case you get questioned by a truancy officer or someone - is this true? Have you ever been stopped/questioned and the ID saved the day? If so, what does it need to say - just name, school name, school year, etc.?
Thanks!
Linda
Thanks!
Linda
Sandra Dodd
-=- Have you ever been stopped/questioned and the ID saved the day? -=-
I don't think my kids ever used any but they needed "a student ID" to
get a bus pass one year, and it couldn't be "made up." So I got state-
issued ID cards, like a non-driving driver's license. Sometimes
when they were going to be in public on what was a school day for the
public schools, I would send a note on a 3x5 card with my name and
phone number, saying they were homeschooled and had pemission to go to
the mall (or zoo, or wherever they were going). It made me feel
better that they had them, but nobody ever asked to see them, as far
as I remember.
Sandra
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I don't think my kids ever used any but they needed "a student ID" to
get a bus pass one year, and it couldn't be "made up." So I got state-
issued ID cards, like a non-driving driver's license. Sometimes
when they were going to be in public on what was a school day for the
public schools, I would send a note on a 3x5 card with my name and
phone number, saying they were homeschooled and had pemission to go to
the mall (or zoo, or wherever they were going). It made me feel
better that they had them, but nobody ever asked to see them, as far
as I remember.
Sandra
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Krisula Moyer
We have them and I like that my teens have them when they are out and
about without me but the only time they've showed them to anyone was
to get a student discount somewhere. (the movies I think).
Krisula
Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:57 pm (PDT
I read somewhere that it's a good idea to carry around student ID
cards in case you get questioned by a truancy officer or someone - is
this true? Have you ever been stopped/questioned and the ID saved the
day? If so, what does it need to say - just name, school name, school
year, etc.?
Thanks! Linda<<
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about without me but the only time they've showed them to anyone was
to get a student discount somewhere. (the movies I think).
Krisula
>>Student ID cardsPosted by: "lbgjones" lindajones@... lbgjones
Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:57 pm (PDT
I read somewhere that it's a good idea to carry around student ID
cards in case you get questioned by a truancy officer or someone - is
this true? Have you ever been stopped/questioned and the ID saved the
day? If so, what does it need to say - just name, school name, school
year, etc.?
Thanks! Linda<<
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strawlis
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
Elisabeth mama to Liv(10) and Lex(7)
>I would send a note on a 3x5 card with my name and
> -=- Have you ever been stopped/questioned and the ID saved the day? -=-
>
> phone number, saying they were homeschooled and had pemission to go to:):):) Thanks Sandra and OP!!! Wow talk about relevant...I just today, for the 1st time encouraged my 10 yr old dd, to ride her bike to get a sub she was craving. The store is only two blocks away, but she had never gone alone before. I had always just walked with her or we'd ride up together...today she asked, more as a convenience to me,if she could go on her own( I'm packing for us to head out on a trip tomorrow). She was back in a flash, with out insident, but she said some people where looking at her weird in the shop...and it got us talking about how we should handle it, if she was actually approached, or just questioned about being on her own! I like the note card idea, she caries a state id in her wallet.
> the mall (or zoo, or wherever they were going). It made me feel
> better that they had them, but nobody ever asked to see them, as far
> as I remember.
>
> Sandra
Elisabeth mama to Liv(10) and Lex(7)
Pam Sorooshian
I make them for my kids and others. Here in California, we homeschool by
establishing a private school in our home, so we are, legally speaking,
a private school. We're not required to follow a curriculum or test or
give grades or anything like that, but we are, technically, a private
school. So I make id cards every year. They have a date, a picture,
name, school name, and on the back it says we're an independent study
program and the students have permission to be out in the community
during conventional school hours.
My kids have used their school id's to get student discounts.
We had a big Harry Potter day, once, and one of the dads made all of us
Hogwarts student or faculty ID's - complete with photos. Shortly after
that I was flying on an airplane and at the last minute they took my
carry-on luggage away and put it in with the regular luggage. Problem
was my ID was in my carry on and by the time I remembered, my luggage
had been whisked away. All I had was my pretend Hogwarts Professor ID
card - they TOOK it as a legitimate photo ID and let me on the plane.
-pam
establishing a private school in our home, so we are, legally speaking,
a private school. We're not required to follow a curriculum or test or
give grades or anything like that, but we are, technically, a private
school. So I make id cards every year. They have a date, a picture,
name, school name, and on the back it says we're an independent study
program and the students have permission to be out in the community
during conventional school hours.
My kids have used their school id's to get student discounts.
We had a big Harry Potter day, once, and one of the dads made all of us
Hogwarts student or faculty ID's - complete with photos. Shortly after
that I was flying on an airplane and at the last minute they took my
carry-on luggage away and put it in with the regular luggage. Problem
was my ID was in my carry on and by the time I remembered, my luggage
had been whisked away. All I had was my pretend Hogwarts Professor ID
card - they TOOK it as a legitimate photo ID and let me on the plane.
-pam
On 4/23/2009 6:07 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
> I don't think my kids ever used any but they needed "a student ID" to
> get a bus pass one year, and it couldn't be "made up."
Sandra Dodd
-=-All I had was my pretend Hogwarts Professor ID
card - they TOOK it as a legitimate photo ID and let me on the plane.-=-
How cool!
Maybe they figured anyone trying to use a fake ID wouldn't have seized
up on the brilliant idea of it being a Hogwarts Professor, so you must
be being honest.
Sandra
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card - they TOOK it as a legitimate photo ID and let me on the plane.-=-
How cool!
Maybe they figured anyone trying to use a fake ID wouldn't have seized
up on the brilliant idea of it being a Hogwarts Professor, so you must
be being honest.
Sandra
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kelly_sturman
Wow! I'm feeling lucky to live where I do! Neither my kids
nor I have ever seen a truancy officer, much less been
stopped by one. The kids go out on their own during school
hours... we don't even think about school hours... and rarely
get questioned about why they are not in school.
Kelly Sturman
nor I have ever seen a truancy officer, much less been
stopped by one. The kids go out on their own during school
hours... we don't even think about school hours... and rarely
get questioned about why they are not in school.
Kelly Sturman
--- In [email protected], "lbgjones" <lindajones@...> wrote:
>
> I read somewhere that it's a good idea to carry around student ID cards in case you get questioned by a truancy officer or someone - is this true?