High School Lockers - an Endangered Species

<p>Lockers are being phased out in some new and existing high schools. Reasons include safety, cost, and space, while electronic texts replace hardcovers.</p>

<p>Web-based classes also cut the need for lockers.</p>

<p>USA Today article:
Hall</a> lockers? Some schools say no ? USATODAY.com</p>

<p>One thing the story doesn't mention is that at least a few students use their locker as a personal space they can control and, in some limited way, express themselves. Of course, if you've got a Facebook page, a blog, a Twitter account, etc., maybe taping photos inside a locker is as out of date as lugging around heavy paper books.</p>

<p>Hardly anyone in my school uses their locker. I think schools should have a smaller amount of lockers and rent them out to students who need them. As the system works now, the lockers are a waste of space. I don’t know how other schools work, but for mine, we don’t really need lockers.</p>

<p>I don’t use my locker; however, most friends of mine do, especially with how spread out and tall my school is (3 stories in one building, bunches of buildings). When our school built a new building, the entire ground floor was lined with lockers, so I wouldn’t say they’re dying out.</p>

<p>our school doesn’t have lockers, but I really wish it did. I ahve scoliosis so it really hurts my back to carry around a really heavy backpack around all day.</p>

<p>My school is HUGE, and accommodates more than 4,000 students, so the lockers are extremely small and can only fit textbooks. I used it sometimes last year, but this year all of my classes are on one side of the school and my locker is on the complete opposite (and it’s on the very bottom row) so I just don’t even bother because it would make me late for each class. It would be nice to be able to use it (it’s a huge pain lugging all my books around everyday) but whatever.</p>

<p>My school doesn’t even have lockers (except for PE lockers). It’s never had them. It was built in like 1992-93, and it didn’t even have any back then. Luckily, with most classes, I get a copy of the book I can keep at home, and a shared copy (with someone from another period) for class that’s kept at school.</p>

<p>My HS had lockers, but they weren’t in the academic building. Most people used them as freshmen. Sophomore year the number dropped a lot more, and junior year almost no one used them. Senior year was a bit different, as our lockers were in the “senior cellar”. They got a bit more use then I think because the lockers were also where everyone hung out between classes.</p>

<p>Sports equipment/band instruments were all thrown on a big “staircase” next to the entrance to the building.</p>

<p>My high school never had lockers (with the exception of PE lockers). We had a class set of books so there was no need anyway. I’ve heard that now classrooms there don’t have a class set anymore.</p>

<p>Two of the three high schools I attended used lockers to store our backpacks and lunch bags. The third was a boarding school… so our lockers were pretty much our rooms.</p>

<p>It’s weird to think that public schools would not need lockers… where would your lunch bag go?</p>

<p>At my school, freshman are guaranteed lockers and everyone else must request one in order to obtain a locker. This is actually a new policy at my school since everyone was automatically assigned lockers before this school year.</p>

<p>Considering the fact that my school has banned the usage of backpacks and “bags that can fit a textbook” (with one of the Spanish textbooks as the standard, since the Latin textbook in my school is the size of a paperback) due to safety concerns, which is actually kind of funny considering how the article mentions safety as a reason for phasing out lockers, I think it would be safe to say that lockers won’t be phased out at my school any time soon.</p>

<p>I guess my school is the only one with lockers for all students lol. I stop by my locker 4-5 times a day to get/drop off books. Idk what you guys do with your books.</p>

<p>What do you guys do with your coats? And lunches? I can’t imagine not having lockers</p>

<p>My school doesn’t use online textbooks, so I’d be a big trouble without a locker. Plus, I’ve always got stuff I need after school for band or other stuff in my locker. Lunch, bags, notebooks, things that don’t get used everyday but need to stay at school (vocab books, etc.)… I use my locker for so much!</p>

<p>i love having a locker. even if it’s a little out of my way, it helps keeping my coat in during the winter, to have a place to put projects, my lunch bag, etc.
plus, when it comes to birthdays, it’s so nice to find your locker all pretty with wrapping paper and bows :)</p>

<p>I loved having a locker in high school. 2 out of the 3 I attended at small lockers. Enough room to keep text books, a backpack, lunch bag, coat and that was it. During the volleyball season I had to stuff my sports bag into my locker and I would dis-like having to go back to open it because if it was stuffed just right it would fall out. I would’ve liked to have a little bigger locker to keep my stuff in it nicely. We had PE lockers small enough to keep shoes, shorts, and a shirt that was it. So during the school day fitting our books, if we had to bring them was tough.</p>

<p>The one high school was on-line so my room was my locker. When I went back in the summer to pick up my diploma from my last high school (they held them until final grades, and after the ceremony to insure at least try to insure no one would try and pull a fast one during it) they were installing new lockers. They are much bigger so I would assume deeper which means they probably could get books, backpack, lunch bag, coat, boots, sports equipment, and band equipment. I actually do not think there was a band. lol Once a semester there was random backpack checks before school started where safety would go through all your bags, and send you through metal detectors. I know they had access to all lockers so if something was questionable they could just open it up.</p>

<p>My middle school had lockers, but my high school did not. It’s a new-ish high school, though, built in the late 90s.</p>

<p>If you live in a cold-weather climate where people wear coats and/or if you play sports, you need a locker.</p>

<p>Where do you put coats, boots, umbrellas, sports gear, etc if your school had no lockers? Do you just lug it around all day lol?</p>

<p>We just got a pretty big new building in the school that’s been open for only a couple of months, and there’s tons of lockers in there. Thing is, no one uses them at our school. Literally, I’d say like 50 people max out of 1500 get lockers. Everyone just carries around their bookbags.</p>

<p>I’ve had a locker since middle school and I can’t imagine high school without a locker to hold all my textbooks and my personal belongings. I constantly carry around at least 3 textbooks with 4 to 5 binders per day since we don’t have block scheduling. I can’t carry all these books along with my lunch and jacket. How do people manage their books without lockers?</p>