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Anonymous wrote:Do kids bring a backpack and sports bag? And carry all day? And are they responsible for bringing their own notebooks? One for each subject? Thanks in advance for all the tips! Also bringing new kid (boy) from out of MCSP to Wootton!

My Wootton athlete carries 2 bags when he has practice right after school. Last year that was very rare.

Yes, kids are responsible for bringing their own notebooks. Mine likes one spiral for each subject but all kids are different. There’s no right or wrong.

+1 to two bags. Every kid has their own system for notes and papers. Some have binders with loose leaf. Some put everything into one 5-7 subject notebook. Some have notebooks for some classes but not others.

Anonymous wrote:Most kids have backpacks, chromebooks, lunch, personal items, cell phone. Some carry sports gear around all day.

The carrying of sports gear really gets me but my kid does it too. She brings all of the above plus some folders for school paper. Binders are a middle school thing, I think. Most kids bring lunch!

Mine brings Chromebook and charger, cell phone, notebooks and books they need, lunch (usually just a ton of snacks like PB crackers/fruit/biltong/chips/drinks) and also their sports backpack. The sports backpack goes in a dedicated room before school starts though so they're not lugging it around.

Never requested a locker.

Mine brings lunch. Uses mostly notebooks and folders unless a teacher requires a binder. Brings everything in a backpack. Has a locker she never uses. Says there isn't enough time. I don't get that because I used mine all the time in the 80s! Oh, well. It's how the roll. My oldest was the same about the locker. Almost never used it (but was at Blair, which is huge).

Welcome!!

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Anonymous wrote:I am honestly floored the kids do not have lockers or open lunch. Carrying around all their crap all day. Never being able to leave and get fresh air and normal food. That sounds terrible.

At most high schools without open lunch kids can go outside, just not off campus.

My ds goes outside to the track sometimes w a friend.

And carries everything around in his far too heavy backpack.

If your kid wants to use her locker, she should use her locker. Don't worry about what the other kids do.

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Anonymous wrote:New to the area. I have a daughter going to Wootton and we have no idea what the students bring to school. Are bringing lunches cool? Do they bring backpacks and notebooks or use the large binders instead. Do they use and decorate their lockers in this area. Her middle school in another state, no one used or decorated their lockers and she just used one of those huge softball binders. She was hoping to actually want to use and decorate her locker. Do the kids bring their own laptops to school?

Thanks for any help!

Juul so they can feel at home in the bathroom?

Juul is so 2020.

Anonymous wrote:New to the area. I have a daughter going to Wootton and we have no idea what the students bring to school. Are bringing lunches cool? Do they bring backpacks and notebooks or use the large binders instead. Do they use and decorate their lockers in this area. Her middle school in another state, no one used or decorated their lockers and she just used one of those huge softball binders. She was hoping to actually want to use and decorate her locker. Do the kids bring their own laptops to school?

Thanks for any help!

Juul so they can feel at home in the bathroom?

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Anonymous wrote:I am honestly floored the kids do not have lockers or open lunch. Carrying around all their crap all day. Never being able to leave and get fresh air and normal food. That sounds terrible.

Kids are offered lockers. I begged my kids to take one and all refused stating they are inconvenient.

Yep the times between the classes are way too short and halls too crowded. No time to get stuff in between classes. Very few kids take lockers.

Unfortunately, the HSs are so big and crowded that lockers are not practical -- you wouldn't have time to go to it between classes. It's hard to get to/from classes in passing time anyway. And my kids also complain that most of the lockers are crappy and jam so are not particularly functional. Drives me nuts that all the kids are standing around waiting for buses in freezing weather without coats. Mine wears a balaclava to walk to the bus stop on the really cold days and I keep telling him not to get too close to any woman or she'll think he's a mugger (or worse).