{"id":3509,"date":"2023-10-17T20:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:31:07","slug":"lockers-a-waste-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/lockers-a-waste-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockers – A Waste Of Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Hasan Mirasyedi, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People crowd the halls as the bell rings, signaling the end of a period. Students walk from class to class, but in the midst of all the clutter and chaos, not a single locker is being used. Beat-up metal lockers sit against walls, almost like an abandoned ghost town. Students walk by, ignoring their presence. This begs the question: are lockers even necessary anymore? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Tim Kim states that lockers don\u2019t seem to be of any use anymore. Tim explained, \u201cEveryone just holds their stuff. [They] should be removed as no one uses them.\u201d Junior Joseph Montgomery agreed, adding, \u201cThey are a waste of space,\u201d and are \u201cinconvenient to use between classes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the lockers may not be entirely useless. Sophomore Luke Martinez explains that he uses the \u201cteam locker rooms near the gym area\u201d to \u201ckeep sports stuff\u201d in them during the school day. Senior Batu Korugulu also agrees that lockers are not entirely useless, mentioning that \u201cAthletes seem to use them to keep their sports equipment.\u201d So why are lockers barely used anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the lockers are situated in the school might play a part. Batu suggests that lockers should be \u201cmoved to a certain area of the school,\u201d that way it would \u201cfree up space in the hallways,\u201d allowing for easier movement and less crowded hallways when transitioning between classes. Senior Renato Tejeda also mentioned how they are \u201cpositioned awkwardly, because students walk right next to them\u201d causing students to have \u201cno room to get into [the lockers].\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another reason for the lack of use could be the digitalization of school materials. With students now having access to chrome books, they don\u2019t need physical materials as much. Luke Martinez explained that \u201cour teachers\u2019 textbooks have been put online for us to access,\u201d which in turn limits how much you have to carry around in your backpack during the day. Renato added to that by mentioning how \u201call [his] folders are in his chrome book,\u201d so he \u201cbarely even [carries] things in [his] bag anymore.\u201d  It’s almost like a \u201cdomino effect.\u201d The more online resources students have, the less things they have to carry around all day, which in turn limits the use of lockers as everything fits in the students’ backpacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that the limited use of lockers at River Hill can be narrowed down to two reasons: the awkward placement of the lockers in the hallways and the use of electronics for school work. Students suggest that that school should not get rid of lockers entirely, since a portion of students still use them, but instead move them to a more secluded area of the school campus to free up space in the hallways and motivate students to use them before and after school more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Hasan Mirasyedi, Staff Writer People crowd the halls as the bell rings, signaling the end of a period. Students walk from class to class, but in the midst of all the clutter and chaos, not a single locker is being used. Beat-up metal lockers sit against walls, almost like an abandoned ghost town. Students…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[587,286,771,282,269,211,285,772],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-digital","tag-journalism","tag-lockers","tag-opinion","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-river-hill-high-school","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/istockphoto-121179000-612x612-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}