Well, I'm a Choctawhatchee High School graduate (old-school 80s-era) and me and my pals used to share lockers even when it was free. I still don't know why. Seems sort of gay now.

mr_bunny: Seems like they ought to find some kind of way to fund public schools with some sort of tax.

Perhaps one on property or something that they could use to raise revenue to pay for them with.

Someone should look into that.

Commie

This is an excellent plan, as long as prices reflect the realities of locker real estate. Lockers lining the hall to the band room or out in the various far-flung wings of the school? Pariah-ville, foreclosure pricing. Lockers right in the main intersection of the school or right outside the lunch room? Manhattan.

You could also make a killing offering Locker Realty services, where you match up students with a locker customized to their unique needs (right beside homeroom, strategically located near the bus ramp, positioned in a spot with the potential to move them just one or two spots up the social ladder). Locker flipping would always be a potential problem, of course, but as long as effective monitoring programs are put into place, it should be manageable.

Pocket Ninja: This is an excellent plan, as long as prices reflect the realities of locker real estate.

Shrill 9th graders running around in blue blazers...mass hysteria.

Brad_Will: The public schools around here have the benefit of getting my tax money yet not having to spend any of it on my kids. It's a win-win! Well, for them at least.

Yup. This is why you only have to pay taxes on roads you actually drive on. It's also why you only receive a tax bill for military spending when a soldier fires a gun specifically to defend you, and why no American who didn't actually get launched into orbit had to help pay for the space program. You only have to pay for embassies you've actually visited, and if you've never set foot in a national park, it's off your bill. America! What a country!

mr_bunny: Seems like they ought to find some kind of way to fund public schools with some sort of tax.

Perhaps one on property or something that they could use to raise revenue to pay for them with.

Someone should look into that.

You know how much a school administrator or head coach goes for these days? Such a model you describe would barely cover their salaries and do little to actually provide for the education of the childrens.

Pocket Ninja: This is an excellent plan, as long as prices reflect the realities of locker real estate.

I'm gonna buy the locker next to mine and demolish it, it wrecks my view.

EvilEgg: I'm gonna buy the locker next to mine and demolish it, it wrecks my view.

Well, I'm gonna buy the lockers on either side, knock out the walls, and expand to a triple-locker space. Then I'll sell it at an inflated price to the quarterback and use the profits to buy a slew of low-income lockers down by the band hall, which I'll subdivide into separate shelves and rent out to band geeks and math nerds who want the safety of a locker they can't be stuffed into. With my profits from that, I'll leverage a purchase of some middling-ground lockers (the social studies hall, maybe, or across from the trophy case), and I'll secretly pay the head cheerleader to move into one of them. Then I'll quadrupled the price of the rest and make a killing offering close-proximity living to underclassmen who'd otherwise never have a shot at her. I'd own the school within a year, baby.

Pocket Ninja: This is an excellent plan, as long as prices reflect the realities of locker real estate. Lockers lining the hall to the band room or out in the various far-flung wings of the school? Pariah-ville, foreclosure pricing. Lockers right in the main intersection of the school or right outside the lunch room? Manhattan.

Indeed - hell, when I was in HS I would have the locker the school gave me as my main spot for my stuff, and kept 2 or 3 satellite lockers around the school so I usually carried next to nothing from class to class... I wonder if the school will sell them more than one?

Pocket Ninja: I'd own the school within a year, baby.

If you need an interest only, no paperwork loan for that, I'm your man. Don't worry too much if you can't pay it back, the school will cover your debts, because if the locker market tanks they're doomed.

ThatGuyGreg:
Indeed - hell, when I was in HS I would have the locker the school gave me as my main spot for my stuff, and kept 2 or 3 satellite lockers around the school so I usually carried next to nothing from class to class... I wonder if the school will sell them more than one?



I adopted this strategy my Junior and Senior year. My Freshmen and Sophomore year, I could be found lugging a giant book bag around for half the year. This is what you do when your locker is so far away from your classes that you barely have time to go to the locker and get to class before the bell.

In any case, the best thing to do is have one of your girl friends carry your books....

UberDave: In any case, the best thing to do is have one of your girl friends carry your books....



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Brad_Will: The difference is that I don't have to pay for private versions of the things you mention because the public versions suck so much.

The public schools in my area are excellent.

At what point do they cease being public schools?

Can you decline the usage of a locker? No? Then it's not a rental it's a tax.

Pocket Ninja: Locker flipping would always be a potential problem, of course, but as long as effective monitoring programs are put into place, it should be manageable.

On this week's episode of "Flip This Locker", Brandi installs Teen Beat heartthrob wallpaper and Hello Kitty stickers and makes a handsome profit.

PirateKing: If they have to be paid for, then the school shouldn't be allowed to search them.

I don't have any legal backing for this, I just think it's a dick move to charge for lockers.

Now that's an interesting angle. But even in a landlord/lease situation, the landlord usually reserves the right to inspect the property if they suspect it's being misused.

I look at this way -- it's OK to charge for privileges, like parking permits, etc. Those are gravy. They're not necessities. I would say that the lockers are a necessity and should remain free. You don't really have an alternative, like bringing your own lunch instead of buying from the cafeteria.

In my high school the locker you received was right outside your last class of the day. If your last class was conveniently located (as mine was in my sophomore, junior, and senior years), no problems. If your last class is out in BFE, you're farked.

My freshman year I was assigned a locker and then they pushed me into a different class, so I had NOTHING in the same time zone as my locker, so I ended up just carrying everything with me, as the administrator says they can. I ended up with an enormous duffel bag (to fit everything inside) and it was like hauling around a load of bricks. With modern textbooks you can't expect a student to carry every last one throughout the day; the weight gets insane and you can't stash that bag in your gym locker.

Asinine policy. Just let the kids bring their own locks and be done with it.

If youre renting a locker, then does it become your property and not the schools and is then ineligible for a search without a warrant?

And then they wonder why enrollment drops every year.

MedianJoe: Can some lawyer chime in on this... If they charge you for the rental space, does that imply some expectation of privacy. If so can the student not allow them to search it?

Sorry, but your land-lord has a right of entry if you are violating the terms of your lease, or in an emergency.