When I forget my locker combo

[ljplicease]

This memory is totally brought to you by a story on NPR today about how schools are phasing out lockers for newer technology.

Freshman year High School I had a teacher I disliked intently named Mr McDonald. I was so disturbed by his incompetence that when I by chance got him again for another class in a later year I rearranged my entire schedule. This was pretty radical for me, even though I rarely liked my schedule I hadn't ever actively changed it. I had this idea that you weren't supposed to except in exceptional circumstances. In the actual event I just went to the office and asked to change my schedule, and they did it without really asking why. In the ensuing schedule chaos I didn't get assigned a locker with the rest of my new homeroom class. I asked the teacher for a locker and she gave me a combination and a locker number, but it didn't work. I was too shy to fix it, so for the entire year I carried all of the books that I needed each day in my backpack. This wasn't as bad as it sounds, most days I only needed a subset of my books, and I think only once or twice did I leave a book at home that I actually needed that day. I was happy though the next year when I had a working locker again. Also it was worth it, not to have that cretin Mr McDonald again. Nobody ever knew that I didn't have a locker for an entire year. I've never told anyone that story before.

Comments

[arwen-of-lorien.livejournal.com]

Our schools don't have lockers so you basically haul your stuff around all the time throughout your whole education. But, knowing me, if I've had one I'd probably use it to store food, ha! :D

[plicease]

Apparently this is the direction that the US schools are going in as well, because students do not have as many heavy text books here in The Future.

[lucymorningstar]

Hauling all your books around sounds normaly to me - we never had lockers. YThe while concept is very foreign