Lockers are now mostly irrelevant, but here are some reasons schools should still have lockers in them.
Nowadays people do not see students using lockers as frequently as we used to. Students now mostly just put their stuff in their backpacks. However, lockers provide great places to put their items. So students should still use lockers.
School lockers provide security for students by giving them a safe place to store all their belongings, including books, chromebooks, binders, papers, and other valuable items. They can put anything they want in their lockers and not have to worry about anyone touching or stealing anything of theirs.
Lockers also offer students a private place to store their personal belongings and learn about privacy and personal boundaries. If they have something that is valuable to them, they can store it in their lockers and no one else can touch it. This teaches them that they need to respect other people’s property, too.
Lockers teach students responsibility for their belongings by memorizing a combination and respecting others’ belongings. They better remember their locker codes, or that will be a problem. If they forget, though, they can just go to the office and ask them to open their lockers or just ask for the codes again. Having a locker shows them they have to keep track of their stuff and not lose it. But having a locker helps with this. They will always know where their stuff is. This also teaches them to respect other people’s stuff by not touching their lockers or what they put inside of them.
Lockers also reduce clutter in the hallways and in the classroom. Students will not have stuff falling out of their backpacks when walking or in class if they put it in their lockers. Lockers take away the stress of putting stuff in a backpack and worrying about it getting crumbled up or lost. If they just put it in their lockers they will always know where their stuff is and that will take all of that stress away.
This is why schools should keep school lockers and more students should start using them more.
