Too many things for one backpack
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Anonymous
They carry it all. |
Anonymous
You guys get textbooks?! Jealous. |
Anonymous
MCPS is crazy cheap Students don’t even get a locker?!?! |
Anonymous
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Are you worrying about this or are your kids because kids
Figure it out. They take two backpacks. They leave stuff in a favorite teacher’s Room. They apply for a locker. And the distance from the lockers to where kids need to be is an issue that spans time. I went to HS in the 1970s. Our HS was three city blocks and four stories. We managed to get to our lockers during the day without parent intervention. |
Anonymous
I was absolutely shocked when were told. |
Anonymous
Students are offered lockers. Not taking one is a student problem, not MCPS’. 
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Anonymous
| My oldest used a carabiner clip to attach his lunch box outside the backpack so the rest of it isn't quite so compressed. I don't think they need to lug the AP Gov textbook with them every day; at least mine never did! |
Anonymous
| I’d carry a hiking backpack in this situation. |
Anonymous
| Can’t they put their stuff for their morning classes in the backpack and the rest in their locker and then switch at lunch? |
Anonymous
| When my kid had too much stuff one year, he requested a locker specifically near a class with a textbook so he could leave that off. Most classes seem to have a set of books for the classroom so they do not have to bring them in. |
Anonymous
There are no more in our school
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Anonymous
Most buildings are overcrowded by hundreds so no, the lockers go quickly and some schools upper classman get first dibs and most of the time the freshman class don't have a chance even if they wanted one. |
Anonymous
I am laughing thinking of how my kid is going to do this during softball season. She is going to knock people out in the hallway with her sports bag with bats and cleats hanging out of them. 
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Anonymous
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Every school is different, so the best advice your kid will get is from other kids at their school. Here's what I can share from my kids' experiences:
(1) Textbooks were offered in many classes, but in most it was up to the kids whether to take them. In the cases they took textbooks, they just brought them home and used them for h/w, NEVER returning them to school until the end of the school year. Sometimes the amount of info is overwhelming to kids at the start of HS, so they should ask the teacher whether they need to lug any text books back and forth before doing so. (2) Lockers -- as others have said, any kid can get a locker. Some with sports equip choose to do so because they can drop it off at the beginning of the day and pick it up at the end. But most kids choose not to, because it would not make logistical sense to return to their lockers during the day. (3) School supplies -- most teachers left that up to the kids, but, esp in 9th grade, the teachers might suggest particular things that make sense. For sure, certain math classes (maybe starting in Algebra 2, but can't remember) require graphing calculators, which aren't very big. Teachers have some available, but not for entire class. Of course graphing paper needed for some math classes. Notebook for APUSH (maybe other classes) because they are trying to teach kids how to take notes and will check that. But not sure they care if it's binder rather than notebook. My kids (graduate and upper class) experimented with various modes and ended up mostly with folders and a couple notebooks. Key thing: kid should ask what is required and what is suggested And parents here should always remember that we don't know anything for sure except about the teachers our kids had at our own schools |
Anonymous
Yes, but freshman usually don't get lockers |