It’s the quintessential teenage thought process: when the people in charge force young people to wear something uniformic or lame, they will eventually find a way to dismantle it, customize it and make it their own. This year, students decided to take the lemon of an I.D. policy and make lemonade- by decorating the I.D. worn around their neck with Pokemon cards.

    “We were all just hanging out in A.P. art class” said senior Katelyn Zalitores, one of the forerunners of the trend.

     “We were talking about Pokemon and someone said to Sam Lockett that he looked like Psyduck, and he could mimic the Psyduck noise perfectly. So the next day he had a Psyduck card in his I.D. I guess that’s where it started.”

     Since then, dozens of students have begun decorating their I.D.’s with their favorite Pokemon cards, or in some cases, trading cards in general.

     “I have these cards with facts about planets in the solar system that I put on my I.D. for a while,” said Physics teacher Mr. Davis.

    “I know more about planets than I do about Pokemon, so I didn’t feel weird wearing it.”

    The Pokemon I.D. fad has yet to reach the heights of the kid backpack phenomenon, but it’s still gotten bigger than Zalitores ever imagined.

     “I have no idea why it’s caught on” she said. “It’s a little weird when I see people that I don’t know wearing them, but it’s no big deal.”

     Pokemon cards were bought in bulk during our childhoods, so it makes sense that the fad has caught on; it’s cheap, easy and best of all nostalgic. At a time in our lives when are eyes are earnestly fixed towards the future, its nice to have a little token of simpler times. A time when our most pressing concern was catching ‘em all.