By Jennifer Trend, Student Lifestyle Editor
The Supervision Office assigns lockers to students a few days before the school year starts. Locker distribution begins with freshmen, then sophomores, juniors and seniors. Due to the more classes and therefore textbooks that they need, freshmen get top priority.
After the second Friday of the year, the unclaimed lockers are redistributed to students on the locker waitlist. From the following Monday through Friday, students who signed up are gradually assigned a locker. Supervision continues to assign lockers until there are none left.
This year, with roughly 3,500 students and around 2,300 lockers, about 1,200 students from the senior and junior classes do not initially receive lockers. Instead, they will have to request a locker through fvhs.com under students and then click the link to go to the supervision page.
If a student is unable to get a locker but needs one, they can share one with a friend or sibling. It is better for each student to use their own, but there’s no helping it. However, using an unassigned locker is not allowed.
“Supervision will go out to that locker, remove the lock–so if you didn’t buy it from us, we do break that lock, remove the lock and the contents, and they come up here to Supervision to wait for the owner to come up and claim,” Dawn Basquez, the Supervision Secretary, said. “And we do what we can to either get them in their assigned locker or to get a locker assigned to them.”
After everyone on the waitlist has been assigned a locker and the waitlist form is no longer available, any student can request a locker any time of the year. All they have to do is go up to the Supervision Office and request a locker.
“Be patient with us. We are working as fast as we can. We know it’s a struggle walking around with all those books. “
