lockers - is it normal to charge.

[epic78]

Originally told you need to pay a deposit of x. So naturally I assumed this would be returned. Apparently no. Only a small amount is returned. The rest is taken as an annual charge.
Is this normal please?
Thank you

[Rummikub]

Don't know of its normal, but we have had to pay it for a locker.

[LazyMonkeyButler]

It's standard here. DS1 & DS2 are both at different state secondary schools. Both have had to pay for lockers. So far, it's been £40 for DS1 - £20 in lower school & £20 in upper school, and £20 for DS2 for Years 7 & 8.

We don't get anything returned though, it allegedly goes towards buying new lockers (and locks for them) as and when vandalised by others needed.

[JGBMum]

Gosh, we get away cheap then.
It's £5 per year for a locker, and £3 (I think) for a replacement key when if you lose the original.

[TeenAndTween]

At dd1's school it is £5 per year, provide your own lock. (I recommend combination as there are no keys to lose).

[irregularegular]

We don't pay. They are given a padlock and keys and only have to pay for replacements.

[DameDeepRedBetty]

DTD's school is £5 a year, but they've only got about a hundred altogether (1300 on roll), so they're confined to year 7 and Special Educational Needs, and year 7 have to share. We (PTA and PTA's of feeder primaries) mentioned it when school was being built, but Head ploughed on regardless, and now spends half his life sending home rude letters about kit being left lying around in the corridors...

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

Ours are £3.

[epic78]

Ok thanks. Ours are cheap than at 3 pounds per year.

[Rummikub]

Over £20 here! And same cost to replace a key! And my dd says it's horrible! Should I complain or is that precious?

[creamteas]

We pay £3.00 at the beginning, and £5 for lost keys.

Sounds like we have a bargain

[Blu]

I thnk we will have to pay £5. Don't know if it gets returned - probably not.

Misuse of lockers (keeping things in them you shouldn't, graffitti, locker crimes I can't quite envisage but are no doubt common) results in being barred from having one. I gather that then other locker-owners sub let access to their lockers for double the amount the school charges.

I have counselled DS against this with vigorous ferocity.

[ChippyMinton]

DS has paid a tenner, no idea what that covers or for how long.

[Yonihadtoask]

DS school doesn't charge.

They do charge for lost keys though.

I made DS pay for his own at the end of last term.. He lost it.

£5.

[kylesmybaby]

We have had to pay £40 and ds's is broken so he can't even use it !

[Erebus]

Ours is £20 (or is it £25?) for the 5 years of secondary, and is non refundable. Replacement keys are £3.

I was about there being no pegs whatsoever but it seems the norm in modern secondaries (presumably due to theft), so a DC has to lug a wet coat around all day, for instance, or all their cookery ingredients, and the PE kit gets shoved in the locker to moulder- but it's highly unlikely that it would have been 'nicely aired' on a peg, either, to be fair! Ours weren't back in the mid-70s!

It's another reason why teenagers don't wear coats, regardless of the snow and rain.

[DeWe]

I noticed yesterday that we are paying, I'd assumed it was all deposit. We pay £25 and get £20 back as deposit.
What I think is a bit silly is we received a cheque for the deposit back during the summer holidays, only to pay out again at the start of term. There's over 1000 lockers at the school. The amount of effort to send out that number of cheques is huge. I think they should send a letter out at the end of term asking if you are keeping a locker, and if so you only need to pay the charge again, the deposit should only come back when they don't want a locker next year.

[kylesmybaby]

I had never thought about dragging a coat around all day. Glad ds has a locker although do think £40 is expensive. And its broken ATM!