My kid's school is asking for my driver's license number

[Anonymous]

Is this new? WTH? This is for an open house for enrolled families at the elementary school level.

[Anonymous]

Possibly for school volunteering purposes?

Our public schools require a form and a copy of your driver's license to do any field trip, classroom volunteering, or more than one time assistance with ECs.

[Anonymous]

Verifying your address to ensure your kids is in bounds, most likely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Verifying your address to ensure your kids is in bounds, most likely.

My kid has been at the school since K. This is nuts, right? This is not for volunteering. This is for a parent coffee.

[Anonymous]

Did you have to scan it to enter the school? This is to make sure you’re not in the sexual offender lists

[Anonymous]

It's part of the visitor management system. They scan IDs to ensure you're not a creep on a registry or something.

[Anonymous]

Everyone has to show their drivers license to enter a MCPS school. This isn’t even new. It’s been required since at least 2017.

[Anonymous]

Would you rather creeps gain access to the school??

If you don’t like it, you can pay for private where they will know you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this new? WTH? This is for an open house for enrolled families at the elementary school level.

Tell them to go suck an egg. Say you lost it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Verifying your address to ensure your kids is in bounds, most likely.

The only way to stop address cheaters is following the kids home and surprise home visits.

[Anonymous]

Seems you have something to hide.

[Anonymous]

Because the process of checking in big groups of parents is very cumbersome and time consuming schools are coming up with work arounds where parents are basically pre-checked so the school just needs to double check you are on the approved list instead of having to look you up in synergy. I agree that giving away my driver's license number to a school database might give me a pause since it's not clear if that data is full secured.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, let's just let everyone into the school building. Nothing could go wrong with that. I guess school safety is not your priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has to show their drivers license to enter a MCPS school. This isn’t even new. It’s been required since at least 2017.

OK, but MCPS can't do anything with the drivers license number itself, so why are they asking for it? They don't have access to DMV systems to verify the information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has to show their drivers license to enter a MCPS school. This isn’t even new. It’s been required since at least 2017.

OK, but MCPS can't do anything with the drivers license number itself, so why are they asking for it? They don't have access to DMV systems to verify the information.

Government often does things because the checklist tells them to. Somebody consulted best-practices guide with a checklist that has an entry for validating ID. Therefore, they require ID.