School pictures were taken August 2nd-3rd, 2016. However this year wasn’t like any other picture day at PVHS, this time the student body received their id cards before taking the actual school photo. How might you ask? Well it’s because they used last year’s picture for the new ID cards of 2017. Although most of the students are satisfied; the big question here is: why the new card but the same picture?

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First of all, the new ID cards were the school board's suggestion. They wanted to have trackable ID cards, due to the fact that in some cases students ride to away games or field trips and either get lost or something goes wrong and the student must be found.

 

How does it work? Well on the back of the ID card there is a layout with 4 doted prints on each side. They’re used as a tracking device in the sense that they are only active when scanned with school scanners. The ID card will notify if a student is present at school events, school games, and business office payments. And maybe in the near future they can be used to take attendance for students.

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The only way to have the new ID cards in session was to have used last year’s photo to make them “I know it’s not fair for the seniors, but that was the only way of printing them." Greg Dickinson, Assistant Principle.

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There is an upside to this; you can purchase a new card with the picture taken during the school pictures and it will only cost $3.00 at the business office. Because yes, seniors were a little bummed out about not having their 4 years of development in their hands.