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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't kids have lockers?[/quote]

The passing periods are too short for students to go to lockers, so they don't use them.  Also, there are no textbooks, only laptops so schools figure kids don't need lockers anyway.

That's the reasoning (I disagree with all of it)
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If you ran the school, how would you change it?[/quote]

[b]I would give longer passing periods so that kids would have time to go to their lockers and change their notebooks/textbooks.  I would allow kids a couple minutes of time to socialize between classes, [/b]even if that led to an occasional fight.  Kids need more practice interacting IRL with other people, and while sometimes it isn't pretty, it is a life skill and vital for the future of the country.

I would also drop block scheduling and go back to periods.  There are many reasons why periods are better for students.  Administrators prefer block scheduling because it cuts down on passing periods, which is not enough of a benefit to outweigh the negatives.[/quote]

But you couldn't, because then you wouldn't have enough instructional time.  You can't make the school day longer, because of bus issues and also teachers have contracts.

So what would you do that is actually possible?[/quote]

Not sure why you're arguing so much.  In our school district, the high schools vary, some with block scheduling and some with periods.  And the passing periods are set to be super-short in order to cut down on all possible interactions between students, not because of buses or instructional time.  There is flexibility in the schedule, enough for a couple minutes here or there.  Choices are made to reduce social interaction between students, and I think that is the wrong thing to do.  Teens today have difficulty with IRL interactions, partly because they rarely every do it.  [/quote]

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