Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would kids not be allowed to have a backpack with them all day? THat's so weird.

+1 yes very.

Assume it's something similar to the drug-search gray area "real reason" for lockers. Somehow the backpacks inconvenience the school or the central office. Remember they'll always happily inconvenience kids/families over themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would kids not be allowed to have a backpack with them all day? THat's so weird.

That was our middle school rules too. The outlier with my daughter because she went to middle school doing COVID- 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, she stayed online for 2020-2021, and when she went back 2021-2022 they were still doing some COVID policy, so they didn't use lockers. I think the COVID policy was lifted in March, so by then they just didn't assign lockers since school will be over in 3 months.

She didn't dress out in PE till freshman year of high school.

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Anonymous wrote:My child’s middle school will not assign lockers to the students. They’re undergoing renovation and brand New lockers are being put in, yet the students will not be assigned them. The high school in our pyramid apparently does not use their lockers either. Why is this? These poor kids in the winter especially have fully loaded backpacks, jackets, instruments, lunches, water bottles, and they have to carry it all around all day to every class. It makes no sense to me why there are lockers in the schools but they refuse to assign them to students.
Are there any lockers being used anywhere in FCPS?

My MS and HS have lockers. thank goodness!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

That’s awesome. I wish that was the rule at every middle school.

Twain has the same rule.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would kids not be allowed to have a backpack with them all day? THat's so weird.

Because it makes hallways and classrooms too crowded. Also it's a hazard when people trip over them in a crowded classroom. Those were the reasons we were given.

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Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Yes! The kids have to carry their binders, laptop, pencil pouches and headphones and stuff falls all the time. It sucks.

Get your kid a better pencil pouch that holds their headphones.

A binder, laptop, and pencil pouch is not a lot for kids to carry, unless they have a disability, of course.

It is if their classes are all over the school, and they are carrying multiple classes worth of items, b/c there is not enough time to get to the locker.

[Anonymous]

It's so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Oh, I'm so glad to read this!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Yes! The kids have to carry their binders, laptop, pencil pouches and headphones and stuff falls all the time. It sucks.

+1 Plus, the giant water bottle. Or, Stanley Cup!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Yes! The kids have to carry their binders, laptop, pencil pouches and headphones and stuff falls all the time. It sucks.

Get your kid a better pencil pouch that holds their headphones.

A binder, laptop, and pencil pouch is not a lot for kids to carry, unless they have a disability, of course.

Tissues, glasses, etc. pads/tampons? it’s a lot. They should be able to have a backpack to go around to their classes.

At longfellow at least they can use the smaller string bags which would probably work for that stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's an improvement with no lockers. I hated mine. In high school it was such a struggle to get to the locker, re-load the backpack, and then get to class on time. Plus, those stupid combination locks didn't always open, no matter how many times you painstakingly turned that little dial and pulled!

Sounds like a you problem. Used lockers all the time in middle and high school.
Didn’t have problems opening the lock. Random but handy skill, since my gym padlock has the same unlocking mechanism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would kids not be allowed to have a backpack with them all day? THat's so weird.

Because it makes hallways and classrooms too crowded. Also it's a hazard when people trip over them in a crowded classroom. Those were the reasons we were given.

That is very silly. No other FCPS middle school seems to have that rule.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Yes! The kids have to carry their binders, laptop, pencil pouches and headphones and stuff falls all the time. It sucks.

Get your kid a better pencil pouch that holds their headphones.

A binder, laptop, and pencil pouch is not a lot for kids to carry, unless they have a disability, of course.

It is if their classes are all over the school, and they are carrying multiple classes worth of items, b/c there is not enough time to get to the locker.

Exactly. And forget about using the bathroom with all those items.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would kids not be allowed to have a backpack with them all day? THat's so weird.

Because it makes hallways and classrooms too crowded. Also it's a hazard when people trip over them in a crowded classroom. Those were the reasons we were given.

That is very silly. No other FCPS middle school seems to have that rule.

+1 backpacks don’t make a hallway crowded. The amount of kids do. Backpacks could also be hung on the back of the chairs in the classroom to prevent tripping hazards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Carson, the kids have to use their lockers because they aren't allowed to carry backpacks between classes.

Yes! The kids have to carry their binders, laptop, pencil pouches and headphones and stuff falls all the time. It sucks.

Get your kid a better pencil pouch that holds their headphones.

A binder, laptop, and pencil pouch is not a lot for kids to carry, unless they have a disability, of course.

Tissues, glasses, etc. pads/tampons? it’s a lot. They should be able to have a backpack to go around to their classes.

Tissues? Why is your kid carrying tissues?

I went to an FCPS middle school and we weren't allowed to carry backpacks even back then. We did have to carry our 1" binder for each class, textbooks to math, science, history, and Spanish, PE uniform to school on Monday/home on.Friday, and musical instruments.

And we didn't have block schedules, so we had to carry all that stuff every day, figuring out for ourselves when to go to our lockers. We also carried feminine hygiene products when we needed them.

We were fine back then, and these kids are fine today. They can carry things. They can figure out when to visit lockers. It's a life skill to learn how to schedule oneself.