Every year, seniors aren’t assigned to lockers. They either have to sign up for one and be wait-listed until the office assigns them to one or they don’t get one at all. This year, I have had first hand experience with this massive inconvenience. Has the school forgotten that we seniors are still here and deserve the locker rights bestowed upon our lower class men? Do they know that we still have textbooks to carry? Very large and heavy textbooks.
We seniors need lockers to take care of our books and keep them in good condition. Without a locker, our books are in danger of being destroyed by the elements. We don’t want to see a notice asking us to pay an $80 dollar fee because the textbook got soaked from the rain, the cover got dried up over a few months, and the it now has that wrinkly, flaky texture like a skin of an octogenarian. Textbooks are our friends and we would want what’s best for them but there’s no locker to safeguard these precious goods.
A locker is a great place for students to put things that they don’t need for their next period and can come back to get what they need for another period. Who wants to bring 3 textbooks at the same time for every period? Carrying heavy objects causes us to have a bad back and same goes for carrying everything in our backpacks. We may be young and assumed that it won’t affect us, but I can tell you that we feel pain like everyone else.
Seniors will feel safe once they place their beloved textbooks in their lockers knowing that their books and backs will be protected from any type of danger. It’s our last year on campus, and I believe that all students should receive lockers, but with budget cuts, I realize this is not possible. Not to single out Freshmen, but with harder classes (which are taken almost exclusively by upper class men), come heavier textbooks. We should be given the higher priority.
