To expect high schools to provide lockers?

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My daughter starts year 7 on Thursday in her high school but they don't have lockers so my child had to carry her cost, PE bag, books and folders ect around with her all day. Am I being unreasonable to expect a Locket to be provided so she can at least store her coat? And other things ?

I did GCSE PE and cooking. I needed my PE kit everyday due to clubs and a large bag of cooking ingredients twice a week. Not to mention the folders, heavy books. This would have been incredibly impractical without a locker.

At the very least they should have a line of pegs in their form room. Cheap and don't take up space. They could hang a coat there. As well some classrooms could surely accommodate racks of cubby holes.

I can understand not having a gigantic hallway full of lockers like you see in American TV shows but when I went to school, they split the cloakrooms into 3 different place. Year seven and eight had a large cloakroom which consisted of a locker for everyone. Year nine ten and eleven had the same deal but in a different building and the sixth form, again same deal in another area. There was theft and I locked my stuff up religiously every day.

Secondary school? All the schools for 11-18 years old around here are XX high school. My teens went to XX high school which was called that when it opened over 50 years ago...

also in Scotland

What is it with the ever increasing snarkiness on this site? 🤔🤔

I imagine most schools in england were built so long ago that they were actually made for significantly fewer children than they are currently expected to house. Afding lockers to the corridor would ve an impossible task and make the corridors dangerously narrow.

DD's high school (about 1200 pupils) has decent size lockers; they are great! But not as used as my locker was in the 1970s. I don't know how English kids handle so many subjects and such a variable time table.

There were lockers at school but nobody used them and we just threw our stuff down in our year area. It's perhaps not ideal especially if you'll worry about her losing stuff but it worked for us.

Went to a convent school in Dublin, we always had lockers and we badly needed them! 6-8 subjects all the way through to age 18 means a lot of different textbooks and I lived 2 miles walk from the school as well.

My school doesn't have the space or money for lockers. Also kids would be late for lessons or forget things in their lockers so this would cause problems too. The no hoods rule though is just bonkers 😕

Also kids would be late for lessons or forget things in their lockers so this would cause problems too

How do you think schools with lockers manage? Our's has a no bag carried around school policy for health and safety reasons. That also has its own pitfalls but I can see the reason they have it.

Also kids would be late for lessons or forget things in their lockers so this would cause problems too.

This practically never happened when I was at school. Maybe once In a while but there definitely weren't droves of kids forgetting stuff and having to go to lockers mid-lesson.

Give kids a bit more credit.

My daughter is in high school and it did cross my mind before she started but she carrys everything round in a back pack (pe kit, pens, diary and packed lunch) and wears a coat? It's not as bad as you imagine. Since she has gotten a more slimline pair of trainers that has helped too.

I went to a school that was the first to be purpose-built as a comp in the UK and had 1600 pupils. It had about 10 buildings, with the 2 largest having 4 and 3 floors. I reckon to get from PE to a class via a totally different building to go to a locker would have taken at least 10 minutes.

DC's school also has a no bag policy and they seem to manage ok with having to go back to lockers at break times! It's just a question of getting used to whatever the school expectation is.

Infact new lockers for some of the classes at DD's school today. All Y11s (not sure on other years) got brand new lockers, located in their Y11 common room. They have integrated locks so there was a £5 deposit to get a key - returnable at the end of the year when key is returned.

Also kids would be late for lessons or forget things in their lockers so this would cause problems too.

I cant see why this would occur tbh. Not once children were used to having a locker. If things are forgotten - they just do without for that lesson, and get it at the end. If late, then same as being late for any other reason - sanction as required. They will soon get the message. Asked DD if this was happening at her school and she says no not all, couldn't understand why lockers would suddenly make teenagers los or forget things, or develop a lateness issue.

DD has a locker, she never uses it. She says its too far away and she's doesn't have long enough to get there and back between lessons. She also never wears a coat, even when its raining, its pretty standard round here that you're too cool for a coat and its better to get wet

oh and we call it high school here too

Have we had the IN SCOTLAND IT'S ALWAYS BEEN HIGH SCHOOL WE INVENTED HIGH SCHOOL gang?

They're pals with the LEGAL TENDER brigade.

(disclaimer : am Scottish)

I went to school in Scotland but my secondary school was 'name of town ' Academy. Dd is at a High School (still in Scotland)

Sadly for us we just had 'secondary school', and the school began with a B.

I spent six years at BHS.

That's not right is it. It was definitely BHS so we must have been high school.

Coooooool!

Don't think we had lockers. Had to carry everything.

Get a coat with a removable hood that can be snapped / zipped on but kept in bag when not needed.

DD16 is in an "xxx school for boys" - 6th form is mixed, but it is still at the xxx school for boys... she has 2 notebooks, a music folder, a sketchbook, roll of sketching pencils and an iPad - not a great load to carry...

they aren't allowed hoods on coats??? is it just me that find that VERY odd indeed! why do the school feel they can be so specific in restricting outer clothing wear? i understand and support strict uniform policy etc but not allowing coats with hoods is insane!! and i cannot even understand how thats even bloody allowed! (misses point of original post i know!)

but with the lockers we certainly never had them and don't know of many schools that did or do (tho i am ancient and school was long ago lol!)

Isn't there some hideous 'game' to do with hoods?