Real question: “Why don’t we use our lockers?¨ 

They are infamous in movies for shoving in loser nerds or big jocks leaning up against them to flirt with the pretty cheer girls. With so many lockers, it feels like there are plenty of them for students, but actually, the overpopulation of students overpowers the number of individual lockers.“It’s just kinda as if the lockers are invisible, I barely remember if hallways have them or not,” Says senior Max Aston. 

  This sparks another question: Why are they still here if they’ve been out of use for so long? To start, basic lockers, like the ones in our school, already cost 50-100$ per locker. Times that by how many lockers we have in our school (I’m not going to count, do you want to?) and that’s thousands of dollars just to remove them. Now imagine how much more we’d need to spend to clean up and replace those lockers with walls or even doors to existing rooms: anything to not make every single one of our hallways look like an abandoned asylum.

“Our students have 1:1 devices,” Explains English teacher Becky Lauderdale. This brings up another thought. The reason lockers aren´t used isn’t because the school hates us, but the computers we now have make having lockers less of a necessity.

 There’s less stuff to put into lockers, they cost too much to remove, and they take up half of our hallways.  

  But saying this misses a key point: you can get lockers, you just need to submit a request. Even though it’s more work than necessary, this helps lower the amount of students using lockers since there aren’t enough anyway. The school isn’t against locker usage, in fact, many staff members agree that lockers are useful. “The access to lockers isn’t vocalized enough,” Mrs. Lauderdale says again. If you need a locker, go to our front office and ask someone about a form and next time you feel the weight of some biology homework in your backpack, remember that you can always get a locker.