What’s up with the mom’s decorating their kids lockers?

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Anonymous wrote:I would never take it upon myself to do this, but if my kid wanted a decorated locker and it’s ok with the school I could be suckered into it. As far as time, I would let my kid pick out some stuff online within reason, order it, and spend no more than 15 minutes after visiting the classroom at Open House or BTSN installing it.

It’s funny to me when people try to insult others by implying that they have too much time on their hands when they do something that doesn’t appeal to the person doing the insulting.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School name?

Our local DCPS Elementary School and Blessed Sacrament both have lockers.

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Anonymous wrote:Our moco school has lockers in every classroom. Where else would kids hang their jackets, backpacks and place their lunch? Maybe older schools still have cubbies? Same thing really.

Our brand-new school building has tall cubbies in the classrooms--no door, basically a tall space for coats and backpacks and a shorter shelf above for folders and papers. And the parents did not decorate them in any way. That would just be really weird.

I would imagine that the poor teacher would spend the year dealing with crap falling out of the lockers, strands of beads and other decorative accents preventing the locker doors from closing properly and then at the end of the year - all the stickers that won't come off. What a mess.

However, if "decorating" means organizing the locker so that the 1st grader can find her coat, mittens, lunch, etc w/o just throwing it all in there....yeah, I can see why a parent might help a 1st grader with that.

Nope this was all entirely decorative-sports and glittery girly wrapping paper taped to the inside of the doors and back, neon LED strip lights along he top, sparkly or fuzzy shelving and even a little tiny pink shag rug for the bottom. Ridiculous! Thank g@d I have a son who doesn’t care about any of this.

Seems like you care about it though. Enough to make a thread on it anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:These nutters are offshoots of the parents who cut their kids sandwiches into emojis. So sad.

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I love emoji sandwiches! Nothing wrong with spoiling a kid. Just because you don't do it doesn't make others who want to do it "bad". Gez.

Do they have an angry cursing or the poop emoji sandwich cutter? I might be able to get behind this trend.

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Anonymous wrote:These nutters are offshoots of the parents who cut their kids sandwiches into emojis. So sad.

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I love emoji sandwiches! Nothing wrong with spoiling a kid. Just because you don't do it doesn't make others who want to do it "bad". Gez.

I think there's a general consensus that spoiling IS bad.

Doing something nice and thoughtful is not spoiling.

Most teens I know don't even use their lockers as they have no textbooks.

I'd decorate my child's locker as I think it would be a fun surprise and I know he'd like it.

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My DD had a locker at her private in K. Parents made something at BTSN to put in locker. Not really "decorating".

Now public in 1st and she still has a locker.

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Anonymous wrote:Our moco school has lockers in every classroom. Where else would kids hang their jackets, backpacks and place their lunch? Maybe older schools still have cubbies? Same thing really.

Our brand-new school building has tall cubbies in the classrooms--no door, basically a tall space for coats and backpacks and a shorter shelf above for folders and papers. And the parents did not decorate them in any way. That would just be really weird.

I would imagine that the poor teacher would spend the year dealing with crap falling out of the lockers, strands of beads and other decorative accents preventing the locker doors from closing properly and then at the end of the year - all the stickers that won't come off. What a mess.

However, if "decorating" means organizing the locker so that the 1st grader can find her coat, mittens, lunch, etc w/o just throwing it all in there....yeah, I can see why a parent might help a 1st grader with that.

Nope this was all entirely decorative-sports and glittery girly wrapping paper taped to the inside of the doors and back, neon LED strip lights along he top, sparkly or fuzzy shelving and even a little tiny pink shag rug for the bottom. Ridiculous! Thank g@d I have a son who doesn’t care about any of this.

Seems like you care about it though. Enough to make a thread on it anyway.

I said my son didn’t care! I find it very annoying and felt it ridiculous enough to post about it. See the difference?

[Anonymous]

Gee. We helped our kid set up their college dorm room. It was just a nice, considerate thing to do for our kid. We got pictures before we left.

If decorating a first grade locker is "the thing" at a school and it would help to make my kid feel excited about school...yeah, I'd help out with that. I would also make darn sure that any decorations that went in there were not going to be a royal pain to deal with.

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They have lockers at my DD's school and I don't do this. I haven't seen it widespread but I'm sure there are some kids who like to do this with their moms. I just don't understand why it annoys you so much. My DD isn't into this aesthetic stuff, but what's wrong if some kids are? Maybe they'll grow up to be interior decorators or designers. And what's wrong with moms who think this is fun and want to spend 5 minutes doing this with their kids?

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They have lockers in my DD's combined 5th/6th grade class. When we went in to meet the teacher a few days ago, the teacher made a big deal about it and was like, "And you can DECORATE it. . .get a chandelier. . .maybe a little rug. . ." My daughter's eyes were going wider and wider and she was buying into it and all I thought was, "Why is this teacher saying this? Now I have to spend $$ to decorate a LOCKER too? I can barely afford to cover the stinkin' school supply list." DD's school has a LOT of wealthy families and they all up the ante and then poor little schmoes like my daughter and me come tagging along at the end, trying to make a minimally fun "effort" while everybody else has the latest and greatest. :/ You mothers who do this? Just stop. Please.

[Anonymous]

ACPS has lockers for first graders.

[Anonymous]

(If you too are wondering what the heck a locker chandelier is, here is one, and, look, goodie goodie, it's at Justice. Why am I not surprised?)

https://www.shopjustice.com/white-locker-chandelier/prd-5696454?cid=bplaju&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BS%20All%20Products&utm_term=1100310788908&utm_content=All%20Products

And a rug: https://www.amazon.com/locker-rugs/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Alocker%20rugs

[Anonymous]

I thought kids didn't use lockers anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(If you too are wondering what the heck a locker chandelier is, here is one, and, look, goodie goodie, it's at Justice. Why am I not surprised?)

https://www.shopjustice.com/white-locker-chandelier/prd-5696454?cid=bplaju&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BS%20All%20Products&utm_term=1100310788908&utm_content=All%20Products

And a rug: https://www.amazon.com/locker-rugs/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Alocker%20rugs

My god that's sickening. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have lockers in my DD's combined 5th/6th grade class. When we went in to meet the teacher a few days ago, the teacher made a big deal about it and was like, "And you can DECORATE it. . .get a chandelier. . .maybe a little rug. . ." My daughter's eyes were going wider and wider and she was buying into it and all I thought was, "Why is this teacher saying this? Now I have to spend $$ to decorate a LOCKER too? I can barely afford to cover the stinkin' school supply list." DD's school has a LOT of wealthy families and they all up the ante and then poor little schmoes like my daughter and me come tagging along at the end, trying to make a minimally fun "effort" while everybody else has the latest and greatest. :/ You mothers who do this? Just stop. Please.

Amen! This is exactly why I find it so annoying. In addition to the mom’s taking up space cutting paper and decorating when other kids are trying get to their lockers. I should add every single kid who’s mother was decorating their locker didn’t help and complained.