Anonymous
02/22/2026 20:57
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
stop crippling your kids.
no binders needed; just folders. they can upkeep their binders at home.
give them lunch money to buy food at school.
need empty water bottle; fill it up at school's water fountain.
Or maybe give them lockers where they can stash their things between classes, and enough time to get to and from their lockers.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 20:12
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
stop crippling your kids.
no binders needed; just folders. they can upkeep their binders at home.
give them lunch money to buy food at school.
need empty water bottle; fill it up at school's water fountain.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 20:03
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
However did we all survive? We had binders for each class, textbooks for at least five classes, our lunches, a pencil pouch, and instruments/sports equipment. The difference was that we didn't carry a massive metal water bottle. We also didn't have computers, but our textbooks outweighed computers by at least 2-3x, so we were actually carrying MORE weight.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 18:14
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
Plus the 10 lb water bottles.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 09:56
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
This, plus a thermos.
if they are in a sport, they have a separate backpack with sports gear.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 09:54
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
You’re an out of touch idiot. Kids need binders for their classes too. They also have lunch, their pencil pack and maybe some folders. All with a laptop. It gets heavy. To reduce weight we try to have only 1-2 binders max. Even with 2 binders and the laptop it’s very heavy.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 09:16
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
wow pt for just having to carry a laptop and charger and some maybe pens and pencils!?!
Anonymous
02/22/2026 08:47
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Our MS assigns 3 lockers. One for kids main stuff, one for PE, and one for instrument.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 01:31
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
My kid is now in PT for muscle pain. Pretty sure it is the backpack. I can barely lift it. Figure this out, FCPS!! They shouldn’t have to be an oddball who requests a locker to not have back pain. If you don’t care about school and aren’t in sports or music, you don’t have to carry much. If you’re an involved, hard-working kid you end up with back issues. Sounds like an equity problem to me. Our school is newly renovated…with lockers…at great taxpayer expense. If kids could handle lockers at our MS, why not in HS?
Anonymous
02/22/2026 01:16
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids go to Rachel Carson and they not only are assigned lockers, but they are not allowed to bring backpacks to class.
My child went to Carson and it was glorious. Then they got to high school and it was the complete opposite. Brace yourself.
Are they at least allowed to carry their backpacks? My daughter is tiny and it will be challenging for her to carry a massive backpack around all day.
In high school they carry around their backpacks and lunch to all classes. We have streamlined into 1-2 small binders and a folder or two to compensate.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 11:12
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
I will say that when I was in high school, the teachers that headed up various extracurriculars would let trusted kids stash our things in their closets.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 11:11
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids go to Rachel Carson and they not only are assigned lockers, but they are not allowed to bring backpacks to class.
My child went to Carson and it was glorious. Then they got to high school and it was the complete opposite. Brace yourself.
Are they at least allowed to carry their backpacks? My daughter is tiny and it will be challenging for her to carry a massive backpack around all day.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 08:48
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:Where do girls stash period supplies
Why is this so hard to understand? They can carry a small purse or keep supplies in their pencil pouch.
This is not a hard concept. It's hard to imagine how some people, who clearly have zero critical thinking skills or ability to be resilient, survived to adulthood.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 08:45
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Where do girls stash period supplies
Anonymous
02/21/2026 08:43
Subject: Why aren’t lockers being used in middle and high schools?
Anonymous wrote:I work in a high school and lockers previously weren’t used, but are now available by request. It’s a mess. The kids use the lockers as an excuse for everything. They’re late? Couldn’t get the locker open. Walking the hallway in the middle of class? On their way to the locker for something they urgently need. I wish they would get rid of them.
I grew up in a giant school with no locker use, and that was in the days of carrying text books. We were allowed to leave jackets in homeroom (there were cabinet/closets) but bags stayed with us.
Mark them unexcused tardy if they are late. Lockers being stuck was never excused in the past, and it shouldn't be now.