To Promote Safety, Detroit School Issues 'Dog Tags'

By Peter Schmidt

Detroit's Malcolm X Academy last week took the unusual step of providing its students with military-style "dog tags'' to aid children who might wander from school or home.

Each brass tag is engraved with a student's name, the school's regular telephone number, and the number for an emergency hot line that school employees will answer from 7:30 A.M. to 7 P.M.

"As a safety precaution, they will have these safety identification tags available for an adult or police officer to look at,'' said Freda K. Dawson, an assistant principal at the...