Students to wear identifiers

I have started and stopped this diary a few times (and lost it once).  It is hard to describe the eerie feeling I got while reading this article in the Washington Post.  Students in a Mongomery County, MD school are being made to wear color coded identifiers!

So students at Montgomery County's largest high school are in an uproar over a new policy that requires them to wear color-coded IDs -- black for seniors, white for magnet kids and a particularly loud shade of yellow for students of limited English proficiency.

It is bad enough that people are segregated by race, ethnicity, religion, politics or socioeconomics, but now a school thinks it is a good idea to segregate students even further by blazoning their academic identities across their chests?  What good is this?  

The new policy "tags us like dogs," wrote (name removed), a junior, in one of hundreds of postings to various school Web sites.

I agree, but what came to my mind was far more sinister.  Jews being forced to wear star of davids in Nazi Germany.

The administrators may have been well intentioned, but their common sense has to be questioned on this.  Identifiers will lead to segregation, harrassment and embarrassment.  Kids want to feel a sense of belonging without being singled out.  

What do you think will be next?