<p>Never used a locker in high school, and only for one year in middle school. With six minutes and a huge high school campus, it was effective to just carry around a backpack all day with all your books. I never had the time in between classes to stop at a locker and exchange books.</p>
<p>Lockers in my school are always useful because no bags are allowed in the examination hall or outside it.</p>
<p>We rent out lockers and they’re used pretty frequently. Then again, we are very technologically declined (which I’m thankful for because I prefer bound books than pdfs).</p>
<p>Whether or not a school should have lockers should depend on how their class schedule works. Some high schools have classes by semester. So a kid might only have 4 classes the entire semester. Carrying 4 classes worth of books may be doable. However, if the school is like many others, and has 7 classes or so a day, then quite frankly I question the education standards at a school like that, that does not have lockers. A student should not be able to carry 7 classes worth of books and binders at a time. Heck I’m not even sure about 4 class worth. I go to my locker numerous times a day. Each class should have a textbook and a binder. At least. Some of my classes have multiple textbooks. If your textbooks do not have to come home, then the class is clearly not being taught at the level it should be. And if a student does not need a binder, then the class certainly isn’t assigning the work it should be. Long story short, regardless of class schedule, schools should definitely have lockers. And if they aren’t necessary, then the school is not teaching the students right.</p>
<p>I COULD NOT imagine having to deal without a locker. I have 8 classes a day, I stop almost every period to get my stuff. We have half lockers (top and bottom) and my locker is about 18 inches deep and 20 inches wide (I feel like i heard these #'s being said by someone) You pay a one time 5$ fee if you want a locker and you keep your lock (not built in) and are assigned a new locker every year. You can also bring in your own personal lock and keep it on a gym locker for the year.</p>
<p>Here in NY I got 36 inches of snow last year… I had to carry a gym bag because it was a monday (i take new gym clothes every week) which consisted of Sneakers, sweats, deodorant, a rag, perfume and lotion… my book-bag an umbrella, and my big winter coat and Tims. In my school locker I had to keep my coat, umbrella, my gym bag until 6th period, my soaking wet bag so it could dry and my wet Tims, idk what i would’ve done without a locker. Even if it isn’t used for textbooks (I bring most of mine home all year) its used for personal reasons too.</p>
<p>We have a couple thousand lockers but they don’t get used. You have to request one if you want it at the beginning of the year. Of course the weather here (Texas) doesn’t get cold enough that a heavy coat is a must.</p>
<p>However, every athlete gets a locker, everyone taking P.E gets a locker, everyone taking art gets and art locker (a lot smaller than regular lockers). And those get used quite a bit.</p>
<p>There have been robberies from lockers at my son’s school, and before you assume, it is a wealthy NJ suburban town ranked in the top 20 statewide for academics.</p>
<p>My son carries around his backpack to every class, and his cellphone which they allow them to keep on, and he never uses his locker. During tests, they pile up all the backpacks at the side of the room, and you have to leave your cellphone in your bag.</p>
<p>Another weird thing is that apparently it is easier for the school to assign lockers for four years. We always had a locker near our classes for that particular year, but his is very far away from his classes this year.</p>
<p>At my high school, everyone is given a locker at the beginning of the year. At most, 10% of us use them, and that’s a generous estimate. They haven’t been well-maintained, and ours is a large campus. Lockers are, to be frank, impractical for us. I’m not in the situation to judge for everyone, but I’d say many people don’t need them. However, until electronic textbooks are the norm, I’d say the option is important, for the sake of every student’s individual back.</p>
<p>My school is pretty small: 200 kids per grade, and 3 (small) floors, so everyone has a locker and there’s even an excess of lockers. I’ve used my locker every year. I keep binders in it if I don’t want to bring them home; I keep gym clothing in it; I’m involved in theater so I might keep props/costumes I bring from home in it if I don’t want to carry them around all day; I keep some textbooks there so that I can do homework during my free periods. Each grade has its own hallway with its own lockers, so there’s not really an issue of it being far away from classes, and it creates a really nice hangout space for us (we spend most of our time sitting on the floor doing work).</p>
<p>In our school, everyone gets a locker, but we are allowed to use our backpacks. I have notebooks and rarely used textbooks(grammar, literature) in there. When we were swimming in gym, I used my locker to store my stuff.</p>
<p>I use my locker constantly. My school is about 3000. All freshman are assigned lockers However the locker locations are done really randomly, so most freshmen do not end up using them due to inconvenient locations. That is the one year I did not. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors can get lockers if they want them and they can choose their locker, which is really useful. I love my locker. I have relied on it heavily for the past 3 years.<br>
About them being a waste of space- they line the hallways at my school, so there is not much else to do with the space. Without them we would have hallways a foot or so wider, but that is it.</p>
<p>My school has about 900 students and there are we have a fr/so and jr/sr lockeroom for all students. We all have tons of books so everyone uses their locker.</p>
<p>My school has about 3000 students and our lockers line the walls so they don’t really take up too much space. Everyone is assigned a locker every year, and you really have no choice but to use it; backpacks, cellphones, and even large purses are prohibited in classrooms.
9-11 grade lockers are pretty big; I’ve seen people fit into them. The way they’re set up is that each grade level gets a floor, freshman on the first, sophomores on the second, juniors on the third. Administration is trying to move teachers around so most freshman classes are on the first floor, sophomore classes on the second, juniors and seniors on the third, but it isn’t working out too well since certain classrooms were built for certain classes (science, engineering, etc.). Seniors get half lockers on the second and third floors, because most seniors (myself included) have half days and don’t really need the space of the larger lockers.
Personally I don’t even really use my locker, I just grab what I need from the trunk of my car. =)</p>
<p>um, why do so many schools ban backpacks?? so weird 
anyways, my school has ~2500 students, we share a locker with a random assigned person and most people use their locker</p>
<p>In my high school (1100 people, one floor for part of it, two for the other part, all in one building) everybody gets a locker, band kids get another locker, pe gets another, and sports get another so some kids had 4. Some of the band kids used their band locker as their locker because its in a better spot. And pretty much everybody used them. I always used mine, since carrying more than one book at a time is annoying if you don’t have to. Sophomore year I had eight books, no way I could carry that many plus notebooks and my accordion file/folder thing I carried everywhere. I probably went to my locker every other class or so, but I could have went almost every passing period if I wanted.</p>
<p>I’m from WI, so most people wore coats, especially the ones that had to park and walk like 5 minutes to get to school. </p>
<p>Mostly, I had one locker shelf, all my books and stuff on top of it, some below it. And a backpack and a coat in there, sometimes running shoes or something. And my locker was one of the organized, sort of empty ones. Some people had way too much stuff. I can’t imagine not having lockers. Ours were maybe a foot wide, 9 inches deep, 6 feet tall. Not exact dimensions, just guesses off memory.</p>
<p>My middle school didn’t allow backpacks in classes either. And no coats in high school or middle school. But some people wore thick coat-like sweatshirts. I think it was to prevent bombings, something like that.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have lockers. Almost no one in our school carries around any textbooks daily, though. In justification, our passing periods are five minutes apiece so lunch would be the only time in which we could even use textbooks - all of our classes have their own sets of textbooks. I like the system, but a lot of schools don’t have the means to do that.</p>
<p>Oh and yes - we do have backpacks. I personally carry around two huge binders and a few notebooks as well as pencils and pens.</p>
<p>We are only allowed to use our lockers before school, after school, and during lunch so I really don’t have use for mine. I leave my Japanese notebook there every day, then drop it off during lunch when I also drop off my gym uniform. That’s about it.</p>
<p>I used my locker until I started driving, then it was just easier to leave things in my car. I still signed up for one junior year but never even unlocked it. This year I’m part of a dual-enrollment program and drive from it back to my school every day, so I didn’t even bother getting a locker. </p>
<p>Since they’re only half-sized lockers, they are very difficult to use, especially in the winter when people try to put their coats in there. Also, there are only 5 minute class changes, and when you’re bending down to get your locker while the person with the locker above you is using theirs, it gets real crowded, especially in the old building where the hallways are narrower.</p>
<p>As for schools providing textbooks in-class, it seems to depend on the age of the books being used. There is a class set of our sparkling new Sociology textbooks. Our Spanish textbooks from 1998 are the student’s own responsibility.</p>
<p>Yeah, I never use mine at all. I don’t even have anything in mine.</p>
<p>Bump!!!</p>