High School Lockers - an Endangered Species

<p>My school had lockers in the past, but for some reason they took them all out. </p>

<p>As for coats, my school in located in a desert so no need for heavy coats (I think I only wear a jacket 1-3 days a year).</p>

<p>For books, we are given a set for home and then there is a set in our classes.</p>

<p>For lunches, most kids either carry them around till lunch, or they keep their lunch boxes in their first period room till their lunch hour.</p>

<p>Sometimes I wish we had lockers to, you know, get the whole high school experience our parents had :P</p>

<p>Every student at my school is guaranteed a locker and a lot of students go to them frequently. I only use mine every other day to drop off my lunch bag and jacket in the morning (I pick them up before lunch), and once in a while over the weekend if I’m not going to need a particular binder. Most of the time, however, I just don’t have time to go to my locker and get to class during the five minute break we have between classes. But since I only have one text book (two that stay at home), two binders, and a handful of notebooks I guess I don’t need to use it that much!</p>

<p>We never had lockers, except in gym. Even then to get a full size one you had to be a senior football player. Even then I never really used it.</p>

<p>The high schools in my district in Southern California had far too many students for the amount of lockers they had, so I don’t think most students had one. At my high school in Omaha, NE like no one used their locker other than for winter coats or something, but we all were assigned a locker. Here in South Carolina, my high school’s first year was about 5 years ago and we do have lockers, for everyone (although with the amount of growth we are experiencing, we’ll need more…).</p>

<p>I’ve never used my locker all throughout high school. During Freshman and Sophomore years, all my textbooks either had a class set available or an online edition. In junior and senior years, having my car in the parking lot was usually more convenient and offered a lot more room than the half-length lockers they gave us. This year I didn’t even bother forking over the $1.25 for one.</p>