Hinsdale Central Gets Tough With ID Rule

HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale Central High School is cracking down on students who fail to wear their identifications.

In a statement Thursday, Principal Bill Walsh said a number of students continue to violate the rule on wearing school-issued lanyards and identifications.

The rule went into effect after administrators closed the campus Sept. 21. The closure was in response to a threat found in a restroom stall at the school, authorities said.

Students are expected to immediately put on their identification lanyards when asked to do so by any staff member.

Students who forget their identifications will be provided temporary ones and charged a supplies fee of $1 for their first three offenses, Walsh said.

Students who need replacement lanyards and identifications will be charged a supplies fee – $5 for an identification card and $1.25 for a lanyard, he said.

Those who continue to arrive at school without their lanyards and identifications may receive detention after the third offense, Walsh said. If the behavior continues, he said, the dean of students may assign "additional interventions."

"Students and staff wearing a D86 lanyard and school-issued ID allow our staff who work at Central to easily identify members of our school community," the principal said in the statement. "It also allows any law enforcement agent to do the same as well in an emergency situation."