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Do you have to pay for a locker at your secondary school?

27 replies

roisin · 14/07/2009 21:09

At my secondary they have to pay a returnable deposit - about £3 I think for the lock/keys for their locker. Then they have to pay £1 'rent' per year. ie yr7s pay £8 to have a locker for 5 years, and get £3 deposit back at the end.

At ds1's school they have to pay £5 per year!

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magentadreamer · 14/07/2009 21:12

DD had to take £1 in on her first day of yr7 for her key not too sure if she'll keep the same locker next year or will need another £1 come September.

PestoMonstre · 14/07/2009 21:13

We had to pay 5 years' rental in advance, a total of £25.

fembear · 15/07/2009 08:26

Locker? What's a locker?
Our Headteacher refuses to have them so the kids have to wander around with all their possessions in their bag all day long. I would gladly pay for one.

PestoBlusteryMonster · 15/07/2009 08:27

Maybe you should campaign for some Fembear? PTA could raise some funds perhaps towards this.

courtneylovescox · 15/07/2009 08:27

same as fembear. ds(15) goes to school with more weight on his back than a paratrooper.

jellybeans · 15/07/2009 08:28

Ours are £30 for the 5 years.

scienceteacher · 15/07/2009 08:29

No, lockers are compulsory.

random · 15/07/2009 08:34

I would have gladly paid for one ...same reasons as fembear

bruffin · 15/07/2009 08:35

£60 for 5 years, but I think some of that is a deposit.

fembear · 15/07/2009 08:36

No Pesto, he objects on principle because of the likelihood of vandalism.

southeastastra · 15/07/2009 08:40

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Wilts · 15/07/2009 08:42

We had to pay £30 upfront for the whole five years.

ABetaDad · 15/07/2009 08:52

I don't think I understand this thread.

Surely lockers are part of the fabrioc, fixtures and fitings of the school like desks and chairs. Why are schools asking parents to pay?

OK a small deposit for a key but I just think £60 is a lot of money for a person on low income.

TrillianoftheShineyCult · 15/07/2009 09:01

Didn't have lockers.

Think it's mad to charge for them. A deposit based on looking after keys, not leaving locker full of mouldy fruit when you leave, yes. But why should they have to pay?

scienceteacher · 15/07/2009 09:15

You knnow, if VAT were to be put on school fees, all these locker charges would be subject to VAT.

PestoBlusteryMonster · 15/07/2009 11:01

ABetaDad, I think our school charges rental of the lockers because there aren't enough to go round. Charging a fee whittles down the number of taker-uppers.

ABetaDad · 15/07/2009 11:46

sciencetreacher - you are being very naughty.

Pesto - surely every child needs a locker. This sounds like lockers are luxury goods. No one wants to be the 'lockerless child' in a class. Sounds mad.

notagrannyyet · 15/07/2009 12:07

Mine have always had to pay £2 per year deposit for the locker key.

Don't recall ever getting the deposits back.

scienceteacher · 15/07/2009 12:15

I suspect if a kid gets £2 back, they are going to go to the nearest sweetie shop with it. You will long have forgotten that it was a deposit and not a charge.

At my school, the lockers have combination locks. At my sons' school, they provide their own padlocks (giving the form tutor the spare key).

bruffin · 15/07/2009 13:53

I think a lot of the time they don't use them much anyway. Schools are big places and they don't get time to go back to their lockers to get things in between lessons. DS only really uses his for his pe stuff or if he has extra stuff to carry round ie going out straight from school.

Fimbo · 15/07/2009 13:56

I have just written a cheque for £45 to cover the 5 years dd will be there. I think part of it is a deposit though. Yr7's get priority. We also need to pay for a replacement key if dd loses the one she gets.

GetOrfMoiCockroachCluster · 15/07/2009 13:57

DD has to pay £2 a year for the locker key. She had to pay for the use of the locker for 5 years at the beginning of Year 7 (it was a fiver or tenner, can't remember, I seemed to bleed money that first week at senior school).

I dread to think what is in that locker. Do the janitors open them in the summer holidays? Because if not there will probably be a collection of 5 year old oranges when she is in Year 11).

OrmIrian · 15/07/2009 13:59

Yes. DS doesn't have one, not because of the cost bur because there aren't enough. Anyway they are tiny so not really worth the bother.

BertieBotts · 15/07/2009 14:00

We never had lockers at my Secondary school. It was campaigned again and again but I think they still don't have them

There was a deposit and charge at another school locally, it was quite high I think, my sister's friends who went there clubbed together and paid for one to share.

pooka · 15/07/2009 14:03

Even when I was at school many years ago we had to pay a deposit for lockers - refundable at the end of school year.

Partly because some classes (particularly the lower school) had those desks with built in storage and so we didn't need a locker all the way through school. Tended to be when you were more senior you would be in a classroom with more modern desks and also with much weightier text-books.

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