If your HS kid doesn’t use a locker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middle and high students don't use lockers anymore. Lockers are a feature of a time gone by. Schools should remove lockers and replace them with long work tables and phone recharging stations for students to use. That would be much more useful to 21st-Century students.

It's actually quite a pain to be honest. When kids have a heavy backpack plus they try and carry anything else. I really hate that they don't have lockers. I wouldn't want to go to work and have to lug all my stuff to every single meeting or appointment I go to. I am glad that I can at least hang my coat and put myself in a drawer that I can lock and come back for it later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes it’s a HS thing. The MS requires kids to use lockers. HS does not and my DC in HS says no one uses them. In Moco

I live in a different part of country and kids don’t use them here either. According to my kids the only ones who “use” them are the parents who come in a decorate their kids’ locker before a sports playoff game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once they drive to school everything is kept in the car. Everything.

Hopefully not their music instruments. Nothing good can come from that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why no lockers anymore? Because no textbooks?

Our HS has them. The kids just don't have enough time between lockers to get to them and to class.

It's ridiculous, really. And I don't know why they don't just get rid of them, then, and use that space or give them more room in the halls. THose kids are packed in there like sardines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Middle and high students don't use lockers anymore. Lockers are a feature of a time gone by. Schools should remove lockers and replace them with long work tables and phone recharging stations for students to use. That would be much more useful to 21st-Century students.

It's actually quite a pain to be honest. When kids have a heavy backpack plus they try and carry anything else. I really hate that they don't have lockers. I wouldn't want to go to work and have to lug all my stuff to every single meeting or appointment I go to. I am glad that I can at least hang my coat and put myself in a drawer that I can lock and come back for it later.

Totally agree. DC’s school has open lunch and sometimes they walk to Starbucks or another place. With all of their belongings. Sounds nuts.

[Anonymous]

How come students of ‘yesteryear’ had time between classes to visit their lockers, but kids today don’t? Did schools shorten passing periods?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How come students of ‘yesteryear’ had time between classes to visit their lockers, but kids today don’t? Did schools shorten passing periods?

I went to a small (like under 500 kids) HS in the 90s. My kids go to a school with over 2000. So it’s harder to have enough time to get to your locker in a big crowded school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How come students of ‘yesteryear’ had time between classes to visit their lockers, but kids today don’t? Did schools shorten passing periods?

I went to a small (like under 500 kids) HS in the 90s. My kids go to a school with over 2000. So it’s harder to have enough time to get to your locker in a big crowded school.

Ok yeah, I actually went to a small high school as well (under 500 also). This makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middle and high students don't use lockers anymore. Lockers are a feature of a time gone by. Schools should remove lockers and replace them with long work tables and phone recharging stations for students to use. That would be much more useful to 21st-Century students.

If this is not satire this would be a TERRIBLE idea, As a student of kenmore middle, we don’t need longer tables, we are not allowed to have phones out in open, and we aren’t allowed to bring backpacks to classes (so we need to go to lockers)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How come students of ‘yesteryear’ had time between classes to visit their lockers, but kids today don’t? Did schools shorten passing periods?

I went to a small (like under 500 kids) HS in the 90s. My kids go to a school with over 2000. So it’s harder to have enough time to get to your locker in a big crowded school.

Schools did shorten passing periods, I only have 4 minutes, and 2 minutes on short days