If you haven’t noticed already, there have been quite a lot of students walking around campus wearing florescent orange vests periodically throughout the day. What are the vests for, you wonder? Well, first off, they’re not trying to avoid being hit by a truck, nor are they construction workers. These students are merely beginner photographers.
  Photography is a visual arts elective at Pitman High School. Not only do students receive credits towards college, but students gain skills in professional photography while also working with Adobe Photoshop. One camera is assigned to a pair of partners and throughout the year they work together to complete their projects. Students will gradually attain new skills and techniques and will improve upon themselves as the year progresses.
  My question is this: Why is it necessary to wear these vests? I asked Mr. Creighton. He responded, “To identify Mr. Rosales’s students because mine are angels,” he joked.
 Since photography students have to leave the classroom, it’s required that they have a pass. A really obvious way to ensure that the campus security understands that the students have permission to be out is for them to wear these vests. In previous years, students carried a pass which showed that they were in photography and what teacher they had. It became a conflict that faculty was not able to identify students who did not follow the rules from a distance. This then lead to, “Hey, there are some kids sitting around doing nothing, are they your students?”
  To end these conflicts, the photography teachers thought it would be a good idea to get some vests. These vests would come in two colors, green and orange. Mr. Rosales’ students would wear the orange and Mr. Creighton’s would wear the green. In mid September the vests came in, but there was a mistake. The vests were all orange. So from that day on, all photography students would wear the vests.
 Therefore the problems were not completely fixed. But now, faculty has an advantage of pinpointing which students are allowed to be outside.