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[quote=Anonymous]"Knowing moms in N Arl I bet it's also a big competition."

Hey - watch out with the stereotypes please.  You know we're not all the same right?  My kids go to Nottingham - and the kids across the street go to Jamestown, so we're pretty close to that boundary.  Our school has lockers for 1st-3rd (fourth and fifth used to, but now they are in trailers) and I've never seen this happen at our school.

So while I'd argue that the families at my school are probably very similar in socioeconomic and demographic makeup, this is clearly not a practice that has anything to do with those factors, but rather just something that has grown up in Jamestown over the years.

FWIW, parents in our school aren't allowed to come in other than for scheduled reasons these days - not even to do morning drop off unless you sign in first.  We just have too many kids now and too many parents, the halls are too crowded.  And I'm ok with that.  I really don't want a ton of parents, let alone their decorating supplies, in the way when the kids are trying to get where they need to get and trying to focus on learning and behavior.  It may just look like a fun simple thing to you, but I bet every time a line of kids passes a decorated locker on the way to music or PE or art kids have to talk about it, which disrupts the quiet lines in the halsl that the teachers try to maintain which, in turn, makes more noise that filters into the classroom to disturb the learning going on there.  Why contribute to mire hall crowding and overall noise?[/quote]

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