“It has been found that kids backpacks on average exceed 10% of their body weight”[1] . Having school lockers is important for the safety of the student’s back. We have to carry our books, lunch, P. E. clothes/shoes, and anything else that might be in our bag. This is hard on our backs and bodies. If only we had a place to put our backpacks besides the floor, and then lugging it to and from every class. This is not efficient and sets us up for lost items, even I have lost a pair of shoes. Having lockers will help students keep track of their belongings and keep them safe.
If money is the issue, there are low-budget lockers or cubby systems available for purchase. Once the school chooses a locker/cubby they like, then we can have a school wide fundraiser for the money we need. We might even find a parent
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It will also help encourage respect for other people’s property. Because the lockers belong to the school, the students have to obey the locker rules and learn that the lockers are a privilege not a right.
A negative effect of having lockers is that if one locker has something smelly in it then all the other lockers will smell too. If the lockers smell, insects will have a new home and bacteria will grow. One way to make sure that doesn't happen, is to have a cleaning day once a week. Where the school provides Lysol wipes, trash bins, and other cleaning products so the students can clean out their locker.
In conclusion, I think it would be a great idea to have lockers in our school. The overall benefits outweigh the cons of having school lockers. This would be a great idea for the leadership class to head up. It gives them extra hours of research that they would need to complete their course requirements for the leadership class, and takes the burden of this off of the
And are locker would not be dented by kids kick them. Kids would be able open there locker more easy.
In conclusion, even though there are many different pros and cons about searching school lockers humans today need to search them if need when needed.Although school locker searches can be bad in some legal
In order to increase productivity and learning time in school, administrators should allow students to carry backpacks to their classes. As a result of bringing backpacks to class, students will come to class prepared and organized, with no reason to return to their locker. Often times students forget their supplies and must utilize class time to retrieve the forgotten materials. With backpacks, students will already have their materials with them, eliminating the need to waste class time. Another advantage of allowing backpacks in class is that it will give students plenty of time to use the restroom between classes as opposed to during lecture time. High schools are notoriously larger than middle and elementary schools, therefore the five-minutes
Personally I think it is a violation of the law in some cases. Schools do have the permission to search the lockers though because of the fact that it is their property they’ve funded it but there has been some situations with faculty searching your pockets and backpacks or even making you take off your clothing. Now the pocket and backpack check is something that they can do when you enter the building but not at random times. They have to have probable cause which means they need a reason to search you meaning the person who is conducting the search or a witness visibly see you with something you’re not supposed to have, or smell a use of drugs or alcohol.
On account of lockers being the school’s property it is legal for them to search them at any time under the right circumstances.
In this day and age where school administrators consider backpacks, lockers, and baggy pants to be potential dangers to students and faculty, what will be next? Perhaps pencils, pens, scissors, and glue will be added to the list of items to ban from schools. These, along with other hazardous educational necessities pose real threats to maintaining an orderly school and should be prohibited.
It cannot be disputed that schools often have to place the privacy of one student, below the overall need to secure the safety of a student body as a whole. If students know that their belongings can be searched, it will discourage them from committing illegal activities at school.
. In Pros and Cons of School Locker Searches, it states that, " Misplaced Focus: searching lockers can imply to students that they aren't trustworthy. It can ruin the school's attempt to build school community trust and respect." In Article 3 ( Pros and Cons of School Locker Searches- Synonym), it states, " School locker searches also consume valuable time for administrators, security guards, and teacher who conduct them. Student also lose their learning time because of this issue." In addition, Article 3 states, " Because students may keep personal items in their lockers, such as photographs and personal letters, even a search with the best intentions can appear to be a major breach of trust by teachers and administrators, causing a rift between the student body and faculty." Some people may argue that locker searches can keep children safe. It "protects them." But how can locker searches protect the children unless they think something's up. If the children act normal and they have a gun in their backpack, then how does this help keep them safe- if no one's suspicious of
It could be very difficult for students to carry their stuff. They might have too much work for each class. In that case, they might not be able to have everything they need, because they have too much stuff. They could use their lockers to help them out some. The lockers would make it much easier on the students. They wouldn’t have to worry about carrying half of their
According to the NCSL, National Conference of State Legislatures “Over the last five years, campus safety legislation has been a hot issue across the country”. Authors like Jazz Silva are standing up for student’s rights that some State Legislatures might not care about. Not only are weapons dangerous but it is unsafe to students who may struggle with mental health issues. College campuses are safer than the communities that surround them. The University of Louisiana system states “93% of the violence against students occurs off campus.” Allowing guns on campus would lead to an escalation in violence, can lead to an increased number of suicides by college students, and the possibility that a weapon can go off by accident.
Students are also being robbed at school. Some forget or don't lock up their lockers or cars. A lot of students set their lockers, witch means they set there locks after they close their locker so when they come back to it all they have to do is open it up. At BBCHS the school resource officer walks the halls and checks lockers and if he finds one set he takes all the things out of it and brings it down to his office. Students who set their lockers are just telling people to take their stuff. With ever kid having a cell phone and an IPOD these days, its not like they are losing
Where as others may believe that this will make the school system more of a bureaucracy. Further more those would also argue that most of the time lockers are hardly involved in the keeping of contrabands. If students have contraband items they are more likely to keep it on them and therefore randomly searching lockers it not as important. The time and energy which would be spent searching lockers could be used in more efficient way.
Now addressing the complete disrespect and breach of privacy when it comes to school lockers. Lockers aren’t ever really safe, it’s true. If wanted/required a security guard can easily unlock your locker at any point in time during a school day. And you might be thinking: “Okay? So what, they’re just kids” well newsflash, kids have rights too. K-12, the upper echelons of the education system sometimes out right accuse these poor students of harboring drugs and other unlawful paraphernalia within their lockers, and takes upon themselves to undergo what they call “a locker search”, or in other words. “Breach of privacy example number 3”.
Students also need to be able to stretch and get out of the school for a little bit. The students are sitting all day working hard, so they should be able to leave the school to stretch and walk around. There are some schools that let students go to the hallway
Some claim that they are the school property and if something is going on then they should be able to conduct a search, but the schools did give the students the lockers to keep there stuff safe, on the impretion that the schools can’t shereach them.So schools shouldn’t be allowed to conduct random searches of students privat items.