Did you have lockers in your secondary school?

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I was talking to my partner last night and she told me she had a locker in her school. This then made me rant about how in year 8 I had PE and food tech in the same day, so I had to lug around my PE kit and whatever I had to make for food tech all day. I genuinely believed that lockers were only for private schools, not mainstream schools until last night.

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Yumefrays@reddit

I did, but they didnt even lock

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bengaliting@reddit

I had one but I NEVER used it

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gogginsbulldog1979@reddit

My rough high school got them in 1994-5, just as I was leaving. I was forced to open mine as it was full of VHS video nasties, which I got a letter sent home about. Though my parents knew and didn't really give a shit. I got caught as I had a copy of Reservoir Dogs, which was banned at the time, and my English teacher asked to borrow it. I lent it to her, then she grassed me up for having it, the cunt.

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modumberator@reddit

Nope, we carried our bags around all day. For a few months in year 7 I carried every schoolbook around all day, didn't unpack the bag, until someone mocked me for having a full bag. "full bag wanker" would've been good but Peep Show wasn't around back then

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BlueAcorn8@reddit

The little year 7s with absolutely huge sack like bags weighing them down was absolutely hilarious to watch each year.

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RavenBoyyy@reddit

Especially because the tiniest kids always had the biggest backpacks, myself included! I was the most scrawny short little kid so my backpack stuck out wider than my torso and went from the back of my head down to my arse. I laugh at the start of school year photos my parents took of me back then.

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OmegaSusan@reddit

At my school it was (inexplicably) the dorkiest, least cool thing to have your backpack on both shoulders. You had to carry it on one only. And we all carried round our own body weight in PE kit, books and whatever other crap we needed. It’s a miracle any of us still have working spines.

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CycIizine@reddit

I still reflexively carry my backpack over one shoulder and I started secondary school nearly 30 years ago.

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BlueAcorn8@reddit

I can just imagine it!

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Top-Perspective2560@reddit

I kept all my books in my bag because I'd forget them otherwise. Ended up weighing about 10kg and was quite good to whack people with, or spin round in circles and try to launch it like the hammer throw.

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colei_canis@reddit

Same, it was an excellent deterrent against 'chicken dippering'.

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Late_Gain_5142@reddit

We did have lockers for PE but thats pretty much it, not the same as like America with lockers for everything

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No_Area7646@reddit

That's different to what I had, our school didn't have lockers at all.

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Delicious-Cut-7911@reddit

We had baskets back in 1970's. Even carried the domestic science (tin of baking ingredients) round all day. Books and pe equipment too

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Pale-Resolution-2587@reddit

We did. Only ever used for the situation you described. Some days I'd have three bags with Technology and PE on the same day

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Tim-Sanchez@reddit

We had lockers, hardly anyone used them though

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

Same, ours were tiny and I hardly remember using mine aside from storing PE kit in it.

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Iwantedalbino@reddit

We worked out we could knock the panels out between them which made them big enough to store little children in.

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Wonderful-You-6792@reddit

We had lockers and everyone used them daily

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

Me too, they got rid of ours in year 10 and only brought back lockets for the year 7s. I'm still bitter about it.

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Wonderful-You-6792@reddit

What are they meant to put in a locket? A photo?

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

Exactly, was especially annoying when you're carrying around loads of coursework all day.

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wildgoldchai@reddit

Same here. Went to a state run school

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Wonderful-You-6792@reddit

Same

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

We had them, but at my school we regularly used our lockers to store stuff. In year ten they removed them all and replaced them with new ones, but only for the year sevens. It really pissed me off, because you have more stuff to carry around in year ten and we could have really done with them.

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Special_bavon@reddit

Same here the locks were shite.

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TestPilotIan@reddit

We had to provide our own padlock. The school reprobates would often find much amusement cutting them off with a set of bolt cutters and replacing your lock with theirs, in my last year they replaced all of them with in built locks. They still had the same lockers when my son went to the same school 30 years later, they were still as shit and could be opened easily without the key.

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MorrisonProductions@reddit

Mine was just full of posters because I saw that's what they do on TV. Then I took the posters out at the end of the year and put them back the next year, having used the locker maybe twice in the whole year.

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BlueAcorn8@reddit

Yeah I think a lot of us wanted to live the TV/movie American high school dream of having lockers where everyone gathers & has their social life take place inbetween classes & has a really cool locker inside with posters & other personal stuff that’s organically grown over the year. Didn’t quite pan out like that in British schools, was just a boring locker you used sometimes.

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jeff-god-of-cheese@reddit

Too easy to break into, better to keep your shut in your bag or pockets.

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RainingBlood398@reddit

We had lockers but mostly they were unusable because some 'ard kids would go round punching the doors in on their way between classes. The best one I saw was when some lad in y10 went to punch one and misjudged. Instead of hitting the door he managed to hit the supporting post in between 2 lockers and dislocated a couple of fingers.

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Effective_Ad_273@reddit

Same here. Only about 10% of my year actually used lockers

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atomicmrpelly@reddit

Yeah my secondary school had lockers. You got assigned one when you started and kept it til you left and everyone used them every day. It was a fairly standard state school, not posh at all.

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IncrediblyUnrulySock@reddit

Today years old when I learnt lockers were a private school thing?? I went to a private school, everyone was allocated 2 lockers and everyone used them. You had a big padlocked locker in the corridor near your classroom where you left your pe bag, hockey stick, coat etc then you had a smaller locker in the classroom where you stored your books for all your subjects. You guys just had to carry all your crap around with you all day??

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CheesecakeExpress@reddit

We had exactly this set up at the grammar I went to.

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Chamerlee@reddit

100% not just a private school thing. Mine was almost the opposite of a private school and we had them.

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

I went to a state school and we had them but in year ten they took them away and only gave them back for year sevens. Really annoying, because you have to carry around loads of stuff for coursework.

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Wibblejellytime@reddit

Yes mate. But luckily the school supplied us with the hockey sticks 🤣 The javelins were safely locked away from us though.....

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nostalgebra@reddit

Where did he put his pony though??

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BlueAcorn8@reddit

I went to private school but did not have one till 6th form. We could leave stuff at the back of the form room though if it wasn’t valuable so books & stuff was usually fine.

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Global_Monk_5778@reddit

They’re not. Husband is a teacher and used to work in a private school - no lockers. I went to a normal mainstream comp and had lockers. Been looking at schools for my daughter, all normal comps and 2 out of 5 had lockers. Totally depends on the school.

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Luna259@reddit

We had lockers. I went to a grammar school. I don’t know how many people used them though

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theProffPuzzleCode@reddit

Comprehensive education here, but I'm so old that we had huge lockers in the corridor and small lockers in the form room, also of the padlock variety. Hockey sticks were pooled, as were La Crosse sticks and crickets bats, all locked away in the PE department (I shit you not, we used to play against the local private school and it was all good fun and a healthy relationship twixt the 2). Back in the day when the government actually felt that helping us poors was worth the money. I've done very well out of it, too. It's criminal the condition of state education now. Put my own son through a private school.

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max1304@reddit

I was at a private school and we didn’t have lockers. It was boarding but the house was a 7-8 minute fast walk from the teaching blocks so we had to carry all that half days crap with us

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IncrediblyUnrulySock@reddit

Ah so maybe that's the difference. Private schools had them unless they were also boarding schools? Come to think of it I used to work at a boarding school which didn't have lockers.

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CheesecakeExpress@reddit

Yes we had two. A small one in our form room for books and then a large one in a designated locker room for pe kit, bags etc.

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sianspapermoon@reddit

There were lockers but not many, you'd have to pay for it if you applied for one and were successful. Never bothered, plus I'm a twin so my mum would've had to pay out twice. I remember a time when I had graphics, art and pe all on the same day when I did my gcse's, nightmare!

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ramona1987@reddit

I had a locker when I was in year 7 and constantly forgot to take out the books I needed for my lessons. That was probably the reason why I didn't bother with a locker when I went into year 8

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Pivinne@reddit

We had lockers, but our school was taken over by an academy trust and really Americanised. Had to pay a deposit at the beginning of the year for them but it was a solid place to put a PE kit or a bunch of text books when I was in sixth form

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myyouthismyown@reddit

We had lockers, we had to because of things like pe kit and heavy books.

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

We had lockers. I used to hide in mine and do my homework during assembly. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

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AFish_With_Legs@reddit

How big were they?

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

Tall ones, im just over 5 foot and fitted perfectly 👌

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YourSkatingHobbit@reddit

You got tall ones?! We had those small ones that are four on a stack, though 11-year-old me probably would still have fit 😬

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

Haha, oh dear. Yeah it was always handy for us shorties!

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Luna259@reddit

Why were you hiding?

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

I hadn't done my homework, so i was doing it inside the locker 😂

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

We did have to carry our bags around all day with us though. We'd keep our p.e kit, blazer, cooking basket, art stuff, hockey stick, tennis racket, textbooks, folders etc etc...

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himbo-throwaway@reddit

We had lockers, and I also had food tech/pe in the same day, probably in the same year, too. It was just a pain even with them, because the key hardly ever worked, you had to pay for it each year to keep it, it was dirty as fuck, and there was no point putting your PE kit in there because the teachers never gave you any time to get it. Plus, the PE building was on the other side of the quad :/ (unless you went out the gate and entered PE through the leisure gym bit that our school was connected to, but ofc no teacher ever let you do that, because how dare you save time going somewhere quicker 🙄🙄).

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StuckWithThisOne@reddit

Yes but they were in our form classrooms. Meaning they weren’t accessible during the day and we had to carry our bags around anyway. After maybe year 9 nobody even bothered to use them at all.

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YourSkatingHobbit@reddit

State school, we had lockers. Most were in the classrooms, with some having hooks in between the units for coats, but the rest were in the corridors near your form room.

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MegaLaplace@reddit

There were lockers, but apparently you had to pay like £30 a week to use them so nobody did

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mammammammam@reddit

I had a locker, we used it in year 7 as it was a bit of a novelty, but that soon wore off as it was easier to lug a big heavy bag about than to run to whatever building the locker was in then be late for a lesson and be in trouble lol

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_Harpic@reddit

We did but you had to pay a fiver or the year and it was first come first serve so no lockers were ever available as folk paid in advance to keep theirs

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Z_odyssey@reddit

My school didn't. No room and not common in the UK so no one really thought of it. My other half was SHOOK that my school didn't and his did (same town, different schools). Both open to public (aka not paid for).

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MycologistWitty4213@reddit

No we didn’t, nothing worse than carrying your PE kit, your coat and your food tech stuff!

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BannedNeutrophil@reddit

Only in sixth form. In secondary we had to carry our bags around all day, fashion dictating that it only be on one shoulder. My back is still fucked up today.

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MostlyNormalMan@reddit

Kids these days all seem to carry their rucksacks on both shoulders. When I was at school, it was strictly one shoulder. The only thing worse than wearing your rucksack on both shoulders was doing the buttons up on your blazer.

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oldsoulyounghair@reddit

I'm my school only year 7s got lockers

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PassiveTheme@reddit

We had lockers. They were tiny and in our form room, which in my case for most of my time at school was a science lab which we weren't allowed in without a teacher. This made them mostly useless, but we had them.

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MostlyNormalMan@reddit

We did when I was at school in the early 90s and everyone used them. My son's school has them, but hardly anybody uses them for some reason.

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

Yeah but you had to pay for them, was only ten quid for the year but never really found the need

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Maleficent-Signal295@reddit

We had lockers, they became a makeup and toiletry holder for the girls and a dumping ground for schoolwork for the boys. Problem was getting to the locker in between classes. Especially when you had P.E. had to get there quick to get changed otherwise you'd have the teacher breathing down your neck.

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Trisaraht0ps91@reddit

Yeah? I was in a public school in the 2000s, we bought a locker for £1 for the year 😂

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ZeroCool5577@reddit

Always had one and literally never once used it

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85Neon85@reddit

I went to a normal non-private school and we all had lockers. Everyone. Some locker banks were in classrooms so you could only go to them at lunchtime and if you forgot something you were fucked, but most were in corridors, so if you had time between your classes you could go back and forth as you pleased.

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Mag-1892@reddit

No I went to secondary school in the late 90s and you carried everything around all day in your bag

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Chamerlee@reddit

Yep! They were only small but they were lifesavers. My locker buddy used to leave me chocolate bars on the shelf when I was on my period. My school was knocked down a few years after I left and they don’t have lockers now.

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jelly10001@reddit

Neither of the state schools I went to had lockers. Only the private school.

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caniuserealname@reddit

I mean, technically. We had little square lockers in our form room.. but using them would have been more hassle than any benefit we could get out of them.

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OverlyAdorable@reddit

There were only 9 for each class, each class was 20-30. £5 deposit was put down at the start of year 7 and was returned when the student returned the key at the end of year 11 (unless they leave our return the key before then). It was first come first serve so many people didn't get one

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Wonderful-Product437@reddit

Yes I had a locker and I remember putting lavender salts in it to make it smell less mouldy

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knightsbridge-@reddit

Chiming in with the masses to say yeah, my regular catholic comp school had lockers. Little half-size ones, like this [https://www.3dlockers.co.uk/\_assets/img/site/casestudies/large/bedes-lockers.jpg](https://www.3dlockers.co.uk/_assets/img/site/casestudies/large/bedes-lockers.jpg) They were pretty minging though. Obviously the kids never cleaned them, so anything that got spilled in a locker just sort of stayed there.

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Auntie_Cagul@reddit

Yes. I used mine.

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Tay74@reddit

Went to school in Scotland between 2011-17, we had lockers, there weren't enough for every student so you had to get in kinda quick at the start of the year to pay your £5 refundable deposit for your key. I managed to get a locker every year, it was big enough for me to shove my over filled backpack in and just take the folders/books I needed for each clasd

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rosegoldqueen28@reddit

My middle school had them but they didn't lock. In high school I had to lug around a P.E kit, graphics folder, and usual bag with the most ridiculously heavy (and useless) maths book in the world! School was such a waste of time.

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SpiceTreeRrr@reddit

90s we had a cloakroom for coats, umbrellas and PE kits. And wooden slam desks in our form rooms. They were replacing them with modern desks and lockers in each classroom just before I left. Eldest having to carry round a wet coat, full bag, lunch and PE kit all day at school infuriates me. None of the kids will use umbrellas as they can’t carry them, so they get soaked walking to school. Nor are they allowed to wear ankle boots or walking shoes, even if there’s ice/heavy rain, and since there’s nowhere to change shoes, so they walk around in wet feet all day. Add that to the refusal to open up adequate toilets for them to use in the half hour lunch break they get and I wonder what the hell has happened in schools.

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thebeesbollocks@reddit

Yes we did (for context, I went to a comprehensive from 2005-2010). They were small and outdoors, most people only used it to keep their PE kits in

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Ezzy-525@reddit

There was a Lynx advert a few years ago which started off with "Manchester, 1995" and then showed a teenager getting lynx out of his locker at school...which was very clearly an American school. But then showed bucket hats and a few bits and pieces related to the Madchester scene of the 90's All I can say is as someone who actually went to school in Manchester...we didn't have any lockers. And I shared your pain about having P.E and Food Tech on the same day.

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soverytiiiired@reddit

In my school you were only allowed a locker once you reached Year 10 and above, so when we were younger we all looked forward to the day we would get to pick one and have our own. When my year reached Year 10 the school decided that no one needed a locker and got rid of them!

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Obvious_Day3383@reddit

There wasn't enough for everyone to have one at my school so was on a paid-for basis. Basically only used on PE and food tech days

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27PercentOfAllStats@reddit

Yea I went to school early 00s, state school in the North West and not a great one in the area either, and everyone had a locker. I'm surprised to hear others don't.

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Sp3lllz@reddit

We had lockers, but you had to pay £5 per school year for it. I think I used mine once in year 7, so I didn't bother after that.

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antdb1@reddit

we had them but most people did not use them because they constantly got broken into to and people stole all your shit.

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hmahood@reddit

We had tiny lockers that you had to pay for

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1HeyMattJ@reddit

Yes we had them but I didn’t ever use one

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secretsnow00@reddit

We had lockers but you had to pay £20 to essentially rent it for the year and there was about 30 of them and they were exclusively for use by 5th/6th year students. So basically no.

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Snooter-na@reddit

We had them and we had to put our bags in them.

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lurcherzzz@reddit

In secondary school '89 - '94, no lockers for us. We would chuck each others bags around before home ec. for giggles.

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d3gu@reddit

We had lockers (private school) because we weren't allowed to carry bags around. At all. You had to get your books out for the lessons and return to the lockers as needed. I started carrying around a small fabric satchel because I was a cheeky little shit, but I was also a really nerdy prefect so they just let it slide (imagine a Goth Hermione Grainger).

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One_Manufacturer3947@reddit

We had lockers but they were only given to a few students and you had to pay a deposit

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Nedonomicon@reddit

Yes we did in the 90’s One day we recreated Stonehenge with them in the 6th form block and called it locker henge Then they fell over and knocked a girl out She is now my partner and has been for the last 29 years 😂

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Briggykins@reddit

Brain damage is a serious thing

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Nedonomicon@reddit

It’s the only explanation tbh

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sningsardy@reddit

We weren't allowed to carry bags so we all had lockers and had to use them

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Wrong_Ad_6022@reddit

Yep,I kept my vodka porn and magic mushrooms in it.

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BennybobsDT@reddit

Yeah, everyone had and used lockers in my very much state school. Small deposit to get key in case you lost it or didn't return it. You also changed locker each year because it was done by year group for some reason with year 7/8s on ground floor, 9/10s on 1st and 11s on 2nd

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Samld1200@reddit

No. We had open shelves in the corridors. Headteacher said trust was a big thing at the school. People had their things stolen regularly

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Life-Cheesecake-2861@reddit

Nope and my kids schools don’t either.

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Old-Nokia@reddit

No lockers & forced class showers after p e lesson.

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small_pigeon@reddit

There were lockers but you had to pay £5 at the start of the year, and provide your own padlock. I normally just shared one with a friend and made sure to get a padlock that had two keys. It would only be used to store PE kit and big text books.

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One-Dig-3067@reddit

I remember getting so hot and sweaty lugging everything around school in the summer, and on the bus and around town after etc, don’t miss that

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JanisIansChestHair@reddit

Had lockers at my school but they were crappy free standing ones that you could knock over by walking past them. No one used them.

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joemktom@reddit

My school got them when I was in sixth form, around 2003, about the same time they upgraded to Windows Computers!

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MattHatter1337@reddit

Went to a public (Catholic) secondary school from 02-07 and we had lockers

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ReplicatedSun@reddit

there were a few lockers in our corridors but no one had any keys for them, think they were just a relic from a long time ago that they couldn't be bothered to dispose of

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OffensiveOcelot@reddit

We had lockers but you had to get your name down for them quickly on the first day. Nobody I knew ever bothered. Fast forward 25 years & my kids go to my old school, every kid is given a locker on the first day which they keep for the whole 5 years (although only during term time, they insist locks are removed for half terms & holidays, or they cut them off)

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ggfanatic98@reddit

We did have them but you had to basically book them well in advance and there was never any left

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TinyDimples77@reddit

The only time we had lockers were during PE and swimming to hold our stuff in. We didn't have any lockers.... I went to secondary school in the 1990s

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Namerakable@reddit

We had lockers, but they were only very small ones.

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weedandsteak@reddit

A deposit? Do people somehow not return their lockers?

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J4CKDOOR@reddit

At ours the deposit was to cover the cost of lost keys for the lockers

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UnfinishedUntidy@reddit

When you handed your key back at my school you got your (parents,) £5 back in cash. Kept that quiet, of course.

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TestPilotIan@reddit

Bloody hill, it was £35 at my sons school 5 years ago.

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UnfinishedUntidy@reddit

I left school in 1995. A lesson on inflation there!!

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n3ver3nder88@reddit

I had a 5th generation handed down locker in sixth form because someone's brother at the start of the chain had forgotten to hand his key in for the deposit at the end of year 13 and handed it down to his little brother. It left the family after that and went to the 'head' greebo in the year below instead.

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Remarkable-Bunch5511@reddit

greebo?

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VodkaBat@reddit

Sort of like a goth, but more grungy (I think). I remember greebos being a thing at my school but I wouldn’t know how they defined themselves. Lots of black nail polish and Nine Inch Nails hoodies.

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Not heard greebo for years

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squashedfrog92@reddit

Plus the absolute state some of them must have been left in. I forgot an apple crumble from food tech over half term and it had fermented so badly by the time I got back I had to chuck the tupperware. It was the proper stuff too not so mum was furious!

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oddestowl@reddit

We had to pay for the locker for the year and supply our own padlock. Basically renting a locker.

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TestPilotIan@reddit

Yes but it was 40 years ago.

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champion1995@reddit

Ours were available to years 12 and up, but they were untreated wood, and there was a mouldy apple left in the one assigned to me. Needless to say, I didn't use it. Also padlocks instead of combi locks

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winkywoo75@reddit

No we did not I thought they were only in american schools

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Karenpff@reddit

Yup we had lockers at our state high school here in Scotland ("00 -"04) Handy to leave folders, textbooks, gym kit etc for part of the day.

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DunfyStreetmonster@reddit

Nope, school bags. Can’t make goals with lockers can you?

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imcalledaids@reddit (OP)

I miss backpack goals. Sometimes you’d push yours in a bit too close together that the other team would kick off

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DunfyStreetmonster@reddit

‘Post and in!’

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AnomalyScan@reddit

We had roughly 200 small lockers in a building for students to use. This guy put a bag of dog poo inside one of them, and the teachers had to break open every locker to find out where the poo was.

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Brief-Ship-5572@reddit

Yeah but they weren't free so fuk that

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millyloui@reddit

In Australia all high school kids had a locker - had to move to another’s for upper school. Primary school no - bags kept under a bench outside .

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TordekB@reddit

I had a locker that I left a tika masala I had made in food tech in over the holidays. I opened it once after that then I never went back to it again

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helpful__explorer@reddit

We did but they were tiny. Not big enough for pe kit that's for sure

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Extragiraffes@reddit

Grammar school (state) in the 90s - we had lockers, my back still remembers the weight of all the damn textbooks we had so at least we had the lockers whilst we were at school. PE kit weighed a ton too, due to all the different stupid kit you needed (summer/winter/indoors/outdoors/ netball/hockey etc). It’s much easier for my daughter nowadays as she does most of her homework online and wears her PE kit home half the time, it’s only a pair of leggings, some trainers and a jumper anyhow. She doesn’t really need a locker. It’s not a grammar school though as we don’t have those where I now live.

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-dman76-@reddit

No because we’re not Americans

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bearwright1@reddit

I had a locker but this was in the 90s so dunno what it's like now

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Hancri84@reddit

We had lockers had to pay £5 deposit each year. I used mine to store porno mags that I used to take from a skip at the recycling center. £1 each, used to make a fortune.

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imcalledaids@reddit (OP)

There I was selling lucozades and 50p cigarettes. Wasted opportunity

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fillip2k@reddit

A smutty tuck shop? 😅

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JASH_DOADELESS_@reddit

We had lockers, and some of the kids in DT made wooden things to go in the locker to spilt it in half so you could store more stuff without piling it all ontop. We had to provide our own padlocks. This was a school that was free to attend.

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JASH_DOADELESS_@reddit

I then worked at a private school later on. They also had lockers. So yea lockers are quite common

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stepbar@reddit

We had lockers (1980s) and everyone used them. Have they become "uncool"? (I yearned for my locker that I recently bought 10 of them for my workshop)

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bingamin1975@reddit

We had lockers in the building, but most had been kicked in in the 30 years that the building and stood there, and not replaced. We had some in the 6th form, I think, but didn't really need them at that point.

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steven71@reddit

We had lockers, but without any locks, so no one used them!

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snorom@reddit

I went to a state school in the 90s, every year had lockers and their own common room with vending machines, hi-fi, pool/table tennis tables and comfortable seating. When it was rebuilt a few years ago they did away with all those communal spaces: such a shame!

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Miserable_Rub_1848@reddit

No lockers in my state grammar school in the 1980s. Sports kit hung in a cloth bag in the cloakroom, everything else lugged around.

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Overthinker-dreamer@reddit

We had lockets. From years 7 to 9 we had old ones. My locker key could open multiple lockers. Lockers were replaced when I was year 10.

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mad-cow-c@reddit

We didn't have lockers in our comprehensive. I thought lockers were just in American schools!

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vandelay1330@reddit

Ffs you just reminded me I left my PE kit in there 15 years ago

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SnooGrapes2914@reddit

My secondary put lockers in around 1996/7 by the time my eldest started the same school in 2014 they were gone

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smithmott@reddit

We had lockers. All American schools pretty much did. Until school shootings when they removed them and don’t build new school with lockers. Because the lockers are why we have so many school shootings. Note that the lockers going away was about 10-12 years ago.

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Wild_Ad_6464@reddit

When we did cooking we used to dump the stuff in the cooking room first thing

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Mischeese@reddit

State school London 1980s we had lockers. I did hear younger siblings of my friends moaning about them being taken out in the 90s though.

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WickedWitchWestend@reddit

went to state school first - had a locker, used it all the time. went to private school - because I was a day girl I had a locker. Boarders didn’t need them because they had rooms.

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Chelseydiy@reddit

Yes!! My secondary school had small lockers (size of a big shoe box, enough to fit a backpack in) & large (hip height). Only we had very limited amounts (around 100 out of 1500+ kids) so you had to apply at the start of the year & pay. I think it was around £30 small - £50 large for the year but I couldn’t afford it so food tech came home scrambled in my backpack too! You could decorate them as you liked so long as they were returned as is when the end of year was up, and you had to sign a search waiver. Every week there would be random inspections looking for contraband where your locker no. would get called up after assembly and you and a supervisor would have to go empty it out.

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llynglas@reddit

Only for gym/sports.

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Careful-Increase-773@reddit

We did but I wasn’t organized enough to use mine

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https_racchhiie@reddit

yes you had to pay like a fiver for them but most people didn’t have one, i don’t know a soul who needed one

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_Kyloluma_@reddit

Yeah. Nobody really used them for anything but pe kits, and under Y9s had to put their phones in them

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iwantmorewhippets@reddit

My school had lockers, you put your own padlock on them and there was enough for everyone. The school was quite small though, only about 500-600 kids. It was just a normal school, not private or anything. I left in 2000.

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tracey-ann12@reddit

We had those really small lockers until the headteacher decided that he was gonna move the whole school and not have lockers in the new school. I hated it because even in my GCSE years I still had mandatory PE for an hour a week and I had to pick a technology as an elective so I chose food tech as my elective technology, so I was having to carry around not only multiple textbooks for maths, English and science homework, but I also had to carry around child development coursework, history coursework, but my PE kit as well as ingredients for food technology and the GCSE year 10 and 11 students as well as the year 12 and year 13 A Level students weren’t allowed to complain about having to carry multiple books around.

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x592_b@reddit

There were only about 30 of them in a high school of 1000, plus you had to pay for them and they were tiny, they fit a backpack and that's about it. Plus maybe a football.

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Rumhampolicy@reddit

Not sure. They were tall ones. Im only just over 5 foot so all was good 😂

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ivy_man2@reddit

We had them, but it was an all boys Catholic school pretending to be private

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jugdar13@reddit

Not one in my town had lockers (not unless they were added this century )

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another_awkward_brit@reddit

Yes, but they were so small as to be functionally useless.

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youve_been_litt_up@reddit

We did but not til sixth form! 🙃

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TheInitialGod@reddit

We had lockers, but the school made you pay for them. My family was poor, I never got one.

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Longjumping_Laugh337@reddit

Had to pay for them first come first served, never had one. Ridiculous tbh

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buginarugsnug@reddit

We had lockers but no one used them

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pickledperceptions@reddit

Lol we had lockers, that's how one kid got done for selling drugs. There was always some kid who left a banana in there for weeks and stank out the hall. Hardly a posh thing!

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insertitherenow@reddit

Nope. I just used to leave my books in the class room where we had that lesson and hope they were still there when i next went back.

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r5dio@reddit

no ☹️ but the sixth formers have them, the box shapes ones though

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Beer-Milkshakes@reddit

Lmao we didn't even have full time teachers. Many classes were babysat by substitutes point at a text book

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Pizzagoessplat@reddit

Lockers were introduced in 97 in our school and only the students studying their GCSEs could use them. I've heard the expanded when I left school

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KeepMyselfAwake@reddit

Yep, went to secondary school in the 2000s, a newish comprehensive and everyone had a locker from what I remember. I had the end locker one year which you could bash open from the side, and had a panic one day and saw all my books and winter coat was gone, locker was completely empty. Thankfully it was safe with staff or my mum would have killed me.

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acrane55@reddit

No, we just carried our stuff back and forth from home (1970s).

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Top-Perspective2560@reddit

We did, you had to pay like £5 or something to rent it for the year. My parents always rented one for me, but I never once used it or even knew where it was. I think people who played instruments and stuff like that used them fairly regularly to avoid carting their instrument round with them all day.

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Ok-Sir8025@reddit

Left school in 92, never had them (in my school anyway)

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Fun-Replacement5037@reddit

Yes we had lockers and for me 1977

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Mysterious-Ticket767@reddit

Yeah but only the rich kids had them

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Fair-Conference-8801@reddit

Every day I learn something new that really was just exclusive to private schools. Where did you guys get changed for PE?? Whatever rooms you had, surely had lockers in??

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T_raltixx@reddit

No. We had to carry our bags with us all day.

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undeniablydull@reddit

Same. My back still hurts from that

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richbun@reddit

We had lockers in the 80s, not sure if still there now. We hardly used them though. In fact, I think one year I just left some food in a jar and left it for the entire year to grow some massive mould creature, but it didn't work, think I should have left the lid off.

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Dans77b@reddit

Lockers are one of those things Americans do right and the British do wrong. (Source, I'm British and spent half my school life on either side of the pond)

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St00f4h1221@reddit

We did in sixth form

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Rinsetheplates_first@reddit

We had lockers but they were tiny. However there was a fashion of having your locker key on a really long chain that hung from your pocket. But most of all we always dropped off our food tech stuff first thing! What crazy school makes a kid carry a mixing bowl full of flour apples and sugar all day! Madness I tell you!

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bluebellwould@reddit

We had lockers. And used them. This has just made me remember how heavy my bag was, lugging it to and from school. It wasn't cool to use both straps on the backpack but sometimes I just didn't care.

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emperorsnewgr00ve@reddit

i remember in y7 my brother told me there was some but you had to pay to use them, and i never remembered seeing any . we moved to a new build in year 8 and there was none there. just asked my boyfriend who went to a private school and they did, but he said it was inconvenient to go back to form everytime he needed a folder or stuff for a dif subject so they stopped using them . i wouldve thought they were quite handy lol

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ItzzBigAl@reddit

We had lockers, you had to pay at the start of the year for one, I never bothered but looking back would’ve saved myself a lot of effort if I had one for just £15😂 (such as the time my school bus was too full (some kids probably had friends coming home with them that day) so me and my friends walked 2 hours home with our PE kitbags) would’ve been so nice to just leave the kitbags in the locker and walk home lol

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tia2181@reddit

Had them in city senior school from 1979 onwards. Was long way around entire place.

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Ok-Advantage3180@reddit

We had lockers. Think I only really used mine in year 7, as did most people. After that, no one really used them

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New-account-01@reddit

Two lockers, one for kit near the PE area and the other for books, etc, outside the tutor room.

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Twiddler97@reddit

I went to school and sixth form in the same school. Years 7-11 I had a tiny one by my form tutor's area (4 or 5 per column) and then 12-13 got moved to one right outside the sixth form study space, which seemed luck of the draw as there weren't many lockers around with this one being a lot bigger and newer (3 per column).

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ofjune-x@reddit

Scotland here, high school from ‘08-‘14 and we only had lockers in S5 and S6. You had to pay a deposit to cover lost keys and it was a small locker that you’d fit a couple A4 folders in or your PE kit but that’s about it. We did use them, but we didn’t have that many books to carry about with us usually just a A4 lined notepad and a pen for majority of subjects.

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Sure_Locksmith741@reddit

Didn’t have lockers, went to school in the 90s. My old school building was demolished and rebuilt in the mid 2000s and they got lockers then.

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liseusester@reddit

My high school didn’t. My sixth form, which was part of a different high school, did but no one used them because you couldn’t get to and from them between lessons.

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UnicornInAField@reddit

No, went to school in 70s, we had a coat hook and a desk. School books etc in desk, coats, sports kit etc on coathook.

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Global-Discussion-41@reddit

Is blows my mind that full size lockers aren't standard in every school. Maybe Canadian weather necessitates a locker to store your coat, but where do you put an umbrella? Or the books for the class you aren't in? What if you skateboard to school or need somewhere to store your football? I have so many questions about a highschool experience with no lockers.

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BluPanda11@reddit

Our food tech department had big fridges where students would put thir ingredients before class and prepared good after class, all you had to do was remember to pick it up yourself at the end of the day. So we never had to carry it around but it also kept the food fresh.

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kirstibt@reddit

We had lockers in my high school I was in around 2000. But they were just there. No one had been allowed to use them for years.

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Federal-Sand411@reddit

We had wooden lockers, that didn’t lock, and nobody used them

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weightgain40000@reddit

I had a locker, found out my daughters school doesn't do lockers and I was really surprised, cos like you said they've gotta lug everything around with them

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Tiny_Ad4209@reddit

Yes but no one used them. Those that did had them kicked in regularly.

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ReySpacefighter@reddit

There were some small lockers, and not nearly enough for the number of students. You had to apply for them.

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gymgirl1999-@reddit

They had lockers for people who had iPads but were hardly used, hence why kids always broke their iPads

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BlueAcorn8@reddit

Not lockers but our form room had a place you could dump bags at the back, not secure for any belongings but fine for leaving books & PE kits. In 6th form we had proper lockers with keys.

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CakeHead-Gaming@reddit

We got lockers that you have to pay to have a key for the year.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

Yep we had lockers at my normal state school.

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space_coyote_86@reddit

Yeah it was something like £15 and you got £5 back if you returned the key at the end. I had one for the first couple of years but didn't bother with it after that.

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MyUnsername@reddit

Yeah we had lockers.

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mortstheonlyboyineed@reddit

No lockers at my uk school, but my niblings now go to the same school, and they have them! I'm super jealous, and to top it off, they've reconfigured the place so they don't even have as much walking to do between classes like we did in the 90s!

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mebjulie@reddit

We had middle schools (year 5-8), where I live up until a decade ago. We had lockers from year 8 and into upper school from year 9-11.

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Playful-Rice-2122@reddit

We had lockers and used them regularly, especially if you had classes that required more than just a book

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tinibeee@reddit

First couple of years, we had the grey metal ones with the keys, that were too small for anything to fit in but it was fun to go to different classrooms and see how many lockers your key opened. Then we got new ones that you could actually put stuff in and get this...they had combination locks on them! Genius

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Crayons42@reddit

We had large lockers for the first 3-4 years then they changed them for smaller ones. We used them every day (mid 90s to early 2000s)

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bennybobberz@reddit

I had lockers, they were outside so not always super weather proof if it was raining a hell of a lot and they were pretty worn. Still useful though cause it meant not having to lug the PE kit around and other stuff I could just keep at school rather than taking home

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Kid_Kimura@reddit

We had them, but there weren't enough for everyone so you had to apply for it and some people shared them. In sixth form everyone had one though.

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GRIMMxMC@reddit

We had lockers they were 30 dollars for the year and you needed your own padlock

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Routine-Attention535@reddit

Yes, you could get one for the year, you had to provide your own padlock and a spare key to be kept by the janitor. I used it a lot

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DecentPrior2988@reddit

Yes. But rather than keep the same one each year until you left, they reallocated them each year which caused madness the first day of each school year. There were separate lockers that you could put your PE kit in though. Anyone could use them but you had to bring your own padlock for them.

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Bantabury97@reddit

Nope. We had a rule where you HAD to have a backpack whether you needed it or not and had to lug it around all day.

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inmyshamewell@reddit

They existed, but there weren't enough to go round, so some people had them and it wasn't really made clear how you got one.

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malewifemichaelmyers@reddit

No, but my high school was a small one in a three tier system so each tutor group was assigned a classroom to use as a form room and each of them would have a cupboard in that you would leave any extra bags and coats in to return to during breaks and things.

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badgerboi490@reddit

We had lockers but barely used them because they were allocated with no great thought to where you were often based. It was standard to be able to drop ingredients to the food tech room at the start of day, and pick up finished items at the end. It was also fairly common to just leave pe bags etc under covered areas outside and grab them as needed.

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Game_It_All_On_Me@reddit

About a dozen. The later years had the option to pay a small deposit to use one, though I didn't know anyone that bothered. If you could get through the first three years of lugging PE kit and exercise books around, you were hardly going to start worrying about it in your last two years.

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Same_Value8941@reddit

We had them. Used them more in year 7 - 9 when you seemed to have way more stuff (I guess because you were doing all then “stuff” subjects - tech, PE, art etc) and then dropped some or all of them. I kept mine until I finished 6th form though and then passed it on to my little brother

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yojifer680@reddit

Yeah we had lockers. They moved every year as you moved up through the school years.

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Caveman1214@reddit

Yeah we did but only one person in my year used them, I lost my key in the first week

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boojes@reddit

Our lockers were dotted about in really useless places. I spent year 7 running back and forth to the upstairs of block 6 to use mine and then barely used it again the rest of my time there. It was a good couple of minutes' walk from my locker to any other classrooms. If it had been central I would have used it more.

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Juliaw1510@reddit

Yes. With keys.

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littlepurplepanda@reddit

I went to three different secondary schools, and only one of them had lockers. But they were inside our tutor room, which was really annoying.

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freakytapir@reddit

We did, but you had to rent them; so not everyone had them.

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JLUK95@reddit

I went to two secondary schools, the first I attended had lockers though I can’t remember really using them much. Can’t remember if the second school I attended had them.

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Squid-bear@reddit

We had lockers...or rather some of us had lockers, they had those tallish ones with the smaller lockers on top that could only really store a few books. It was a bit of pot luck if you had a locker or not. I had a tall locker that fit bags/coats etc so I used to share mine with another girl who just had one of the small ones. It was fine until one of the idiots in our year whom she annoyed tried to push some burning paper into my locker thinking it was hers.

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aea1987@reddit

We had lockers. Had to use them as well. If you were caught lugging a bag around, with the exception of pe, you were sent to put it in your locker.

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Froomian@reddit

We had lockers but they were inside our form rooms, so we could only access it first thing in the morning, at lunchtime, and at the end of the day.

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zennetta@reddit

Yes but they were in our form room so limited access throughout the day. Useful for stashing books between days but often you'd need them for homework so hardly ever used them. Plus one time someone left a leg of lamb in someone's locker over the 6 weeks so everything left in there went absolutely rotten 🤣

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Ghostenx@reddit

Yes, lots from what I recall and separated by age so the little ones didn't get trampled by the older kids.

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indigo263@reddit

There were lockers when I went to high school, but they didn't have enough for everyone so they were usually allocated to the kids who had to get the bus to school. If you were within walking distance then you had to lug everything around all day 😅

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SneezlesForNeezles@reddit

Had them. Never used them. I was also lazy and used to lug around the entire weeks worth of books so I wouldn’t have to swap and change each day. And I wonder why I now have back issues…

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anchoredwunderlust@reddit

Not really. I think they existed but it definitely wasn’t someone everybody had. And it would have been inconvenient anyway coz there wasn’t any time between classes for that really. (I mean school seemed to test shit. One year you get like 3 super long classes a day the next minute they’re changing classes every 45 mins. In the latter everything was rushed otherwise you’d not learn anything by the time you got your pencil case out and stopped nattering. Getting changed for PE before the next class came in was hard enough)

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Lox_Ox@reddit

No we had a coat hook, then in high school we carried our bags with us.

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Violet351@reddit

We had a locker or a desk and a peg.

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Fun_Level_7787@reddit

My school had lockers and everyone used them! They were useful for keeping my bag in day to day, then i'd just carry the books for my first 2 lessons, break, next 2 lessons (or one if it was a double), lunch, take my bag for the last lesson then home time! PE kit and lunch bag stayed in there too. Was a regular state school

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SarNic88@reddit

I went to secondary school September 1999 and we had lockers in our form rooms for books and stuff, had to make sure you grabbed what you needed before you could come back in the next break time. The lockers were big enough for textbooks and had a hook on the inside of the door to hang your PE kit. If we were doing food tech we had to drop our named bag of ingredients into the fridges in the FT room before we went to morning registration.

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Apidium@reddit

I went to two. Only one had lockers and said lockers were for 6th form folks only. We just sort of carried it or dumped it. Everyone who had food would dump all their ingredients in the fridges there if they needed them or just in a bag in the corner of the room if it didn't need to be refrigerated. The PE changing rooms had lockers that were never used and unacceptable to attempt to use. I got into bother with that one. Apparely I should have known that I was supposed to leave my shit strewn on or under the benches instead? I got good at convincing teachers to let me use random corners of their classrooms as dumping grounds.

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BlueHoopedMoose@reddit

Had a desk that you could lift the lid off and put stuff in. Problem was, our form room was used for lessons with other kids so all sorts of shite was dumped in your desk.

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Lloytron@reddit

State school here, we had lockers

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AdrianFish@reddit

I would’ve loved lockers, honestly pissed me off so much when we had PE/food tech days. I must’ve lost so many football boot bags and rugby jumpers in my time simply because I had to carry this shit round with me all day

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AoifeNet@reddit

Not really. We had a small set of them in the sports building that were never used. Had there been any lockers anywhere else they would have been vandalised and broken into before the caretakers had even finished installing them.

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Great-Activity-5420@reddit

Yeah we did. Mine didn't lock very well so I gave it back lol think they got rid of them later. That was early 2000s there weren't many. Public school failing apart lol

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Pattoe89@reddit

I went to 2 secondary schools. First one had lockers. Second one did not. I now work in primary schools. Every primary school I've worked in has trays for their children. Essentially lockers. There's enough room in them to store little crafts.

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ilovefireengines@reddit

I went to a private school, we had to share lockers!

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FantasticSouth@reddit

We did. I remember my dad gave me my first ever lock, one of those code ones. Locked up one morning to come back at the end of the day to find it gone. Someone must have been watching me put the code in. I cried my eyes out. None of my stuff was touched tho.

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PeerieSoothMoother@reddit

No. Before the time of computerised devices, I don't think we had anything in school that wasn't related to lessons. Although I guess I could have had my homework stolen, but that didn't happen.

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Howthehelldoido@reddit

My school had them. *We were not allowed to use them* for some ungodly reason?

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bookofthoth_za@reddit

From South Africa and lockers did not even exist as a concept when I wad in HS. Just had to carry 10kg of books everywhere from class to class.

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tarmac-the-cat@reddit

1980s, no lockers but there was a large communal cloakroom with hooks you could hand a coat and pe bag on. As far as I know there was no risk, nothing was ever stolen. School pe kit was not branded, mostly standard issue for all of us. Nothing worth stealing.

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NefariousnessNo4918@reddit

My school did. We had a locker allocated when we started which stayed with us until we left. I stuck a wet PE kit in mine at some point in Year 7 and forgot about it. Pity the poor sod who had to open that up five years later.

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OminOus_PancakeS@reddit

No lockers. Carried everything in my bag.

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Effective-Stress-781@reddit

Lockers weren't common in school but available for a deposit in 6th form. I painted it silver with a green stencil of a weed leaf and handed it down to my mate in the year below. Strangely my geography teacher told my parents he thought I was getting high. Wanker.

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Happy_fairy89@reddit

We had lockers. I paid for mine, put stuff in it. Went to open it and it had been given to someone else and my things had been binned. When I asked the school office, they refused to admit the mistake and gave me the master key to search every locker for my stuff, which of course was gone. I wasn’t happy!

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StarieeyedJ@reddit

We had lockers but there was not enough for all students so it was a first come first serve type of deal, each year had an allotted amount.

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wgt404245@reddit

So I went to secondary school in England 2003-2008. There were definitely lockers. I recall them in 3 distinct areas. There were definitely not enough for every student so they were not just standard issue, you had to register for one (probably a letter your parents signed and a deposit for the key). I never did this myself so I was in your boat.. however on the day of food tech we could leave food in the classroom in the morning and the final product until end of day. Walking around school with a freshly baked apple pie or bolognese would have been suicide.

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The_Blip@reddit

Yeah, similar situation with me. There wasn't enough for everyone, so they restricted them to the higher years. You had to sign up for them and get your own padlock, but since we were all used to lugging everything around and they weren't that big anyway, no one bothered with the hassle.

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Paracosm26@reddit

We got them as standard at my secondary school.

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Matrixblackhole@reddit

My school was a state school academy. We had lockers but not enough for everyone, and you had to pay a deposit to have one (plus first cone first serve). Was definitely use on the days I had PE and food tech.

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Yoguls@reddit

We had lockers, they stank of piss and every one was plastered with chewing gum. Funny story though, one lad brought in his mams dildo and hid it in his locker and upon request would take people back to his locker to show it. It sounds strange when I say it after all these years but seemed absolutely normal at the time

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i_sesh_better@reddit

We were required to use our lockers because they didn't like bags being all over the classroom. Grammar school though.

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063464619@reddit

My state school had lockers, and lots of us used them when I first started (in 2011). But we got a new headteacher with strange ideas who made them effectively futile. Apparently too many people were being late to classes because they were taking too long at their lockers, so she barred us from accessing them between classes, only at break and lunchtimes. Not ideal, but we can live with that. But consequently, hoards of kids were going upstairs at break and lunch to "access their lockers" and causing chaos. So then we weren't allowed to go upstairs at break and lunch at all unless we had a pass issued by a teacher, but "accessing lockers" wasn't a valid reason for a pass. So ultimately, you could only access your locker in the morning or at the very end of the day, which defeated the object. Eventually that lunatic left and her replacement was much more reasonable, but by then I'd become so accustomed to lugging all my shite around all day that I didn't bother getting one again.

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je97@reddit

We had lockers in my state school, though I never used them. I don't think my private school had lockers honestly, we just dumped our crap in the form room (which was fun when geography lessons were happening there, no we did not knock) and it wasn't touched.

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e-pancake@reddit

we did but only really used them for putting bags in on exam days

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Geocacher6907@reddit

My secondary school had lockers which you had to pay for, so most people didn’t have them as they didn’t need one.

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the-bid-d@reddit

Mine did but they were either smashed in or nobody used them

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ElijahJoel2000@reddit

Yeah, we each had one of those write on labels for our names to tell who's was who's. Mostly just somewhere for our PE kits to go. In 6th form I just used mine for extra snacks.

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marquis_de_ersatz@reddit

Yep, there wasn't enough for one each so we had to put our names down for them start of term, first come first served. I think it was maybe a £5 deposit for the key. And there were different sets of lockers for each year group, so every year you got a different locker in a different place. Nobody decorated them or anything, they were very boring and utilitarian.

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louilou96@reddit

We had like, maybe 20 lockers. Felt really pointless, they were clearly super old and no one used them I think the teachers ended up using them for extra storage

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Dedward5@reddit

Went to a very average comp on the 80s and we had lockers.

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witchy71@reddit

We had them but you got a random one around the school and had to pay for the privilege, either for a term or year, I can't remember

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CyGuy6587@reddit

Went to a state secondary school and everyone had a locker. I used mine all the time. However, if you had a bottom locker, you were at high risk of it getting kicked in. Thankfully mine was a top one

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EvilRobotSteve@reddit

We had lockers, but they were pretty small. You could just about cram a PE bag in there. There weren't enough for everyone to have one, so it was first come first serve. You had to pay a deposit for the key in case you lost it.

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lalagromedontknow@reddit

I had a locker, it was about the size of an a4 piece of paper and about 50cm depth. It was on the bottom row and it was a pain in the ass to get too because people always stood in front of it. I wanted to be American so I put pictures on the door. I lost the key in like year 10 and never told anyone and then left school and the country. I've always wondered if it was ever opened.

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EdmundTheInsulter@reddit

I remember so, but they had no locks, so no one used them. I barely recall, they may have had no doors even

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CuteNeedleworker9@reddit

There were some lockers for year 11s but hardly anyone used them. The sixth form I went to had them but again hardly anyone used them as you had to share one with a random person.

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stinkpipe_78@reddit

I went to the shittiest school ever. Brown and beige lockers with dents in from being punched by my unstable peers.

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tazbaron1981@reddit

My school didn't get them till my second to last year. The seniors decided on their last day to smash them up so we couldn't get them.

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Badknees24@reddit

Yes, high school late 1980s. We all had a locker. Tall ones, big enough for your PE kit and books etc. Had to supply your own lock.

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Expression-Little@reddit

We did! The OG lockers were crap, deep but really narrow and I cut my hand on the hinge a couple of times. Then they were upgraded to bigger ones with combination locks. I can still remember the code.

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wetlettuce42@reddit

We had to haul our bags everywere

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SlightlyMithed123@reddit

I did, we had several locker rooms. You had to pay a £5 deposit when you started which you actually got back when you left (didn’t mention that to mum, that was 2 pints in those days!) I genuinely put stuff in it year 7 and didn’t use it after that, the stuff was all still in there when I left at the end of Year 11.

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-mmmusic-@reddit

yeah but you had to put a deposit down at the beginning of the year, there were barely any for the amount of students, and they were in the dumbest areas

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johimself@reddit

I had a locker. I used to keep my mate's dodgy fags in there because my locker wouldn't get searched. We only got lockers in year 10+ though I think.

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echoesreach@reddit

We had them around 2001 but you needed to provide your own lock and they weren't allocated so bringing a lock and finding a locker was more trouble than it was worth. You often had like 5 minutes to get from one lesson to the next so stopping in the packed corridors to piss around getting stuff in/out of a locker would mean you'd be late for lessons alot of the time.

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ChickenIll1050@reddit

We had lockers from year 10. Year 7-9 we had desks with a lift up lid in our form rooms.

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Agent_No@reddit

97-03 here. We had lockers in our form room. There was one spare that had the top of the door bent slightly which we used to deposit crushed coke cans in to, until the teacher who used the room complained about ants and tore it open, almost getting swept away by a sticky aluminium avalanche. My eldest stepdaughter has just left school too, and also had lockers although never really used one as we drove her to school.

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tatz26@reddit

We had lockers in the north. In banks of 12ish double stacked. Fully able to be moved and used to barricade three girls in the toilets while they got beat and one had a few teeth knocked out. Fun times. Cheers for the trauma Raincliffe.

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

We had to use our lockers. No bags to be carried around…zero tolerance. We had to carry our books for the first half of the day, exchange during break and lunch. PE- I didn’t bother with that shite

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Global_Monk_5778@reddit

I had lockers, my kids school does not. Been looking at schools for my younger kid and out of 5 schools we looked at 2 had lockers the other 3 didn’t. Eldest *hates* not having a locker and having to carry around coat, PE kit, trainers etc all day long. It’s all so heavy!

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CuriousPalpitation23@reddit

Yeah, late 90s early noughties. We all had a locker in our form rooms.

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Front-Pomelo-4367@reddit

Secondary 2009-14, all-girls state school (not religious or private) and we all had lockers, but not many people used them. It was too inconvenient to head back to them in the three minutes we had between class periods

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Saxon2060@reddit

Yeah. Normal state school 2001 - 2006.

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Redditor274929@reddit

We had lockers but not everyone used them. We didn't need to take stuff for home ec tho, the school provided everything but taking stuff for home ec seems to be an older generational thing (I'm 19)

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LuckyNV@reddit

We had large lockers in our tutor rooms - basically, each person reports to a "tutor", who was just a normal teacher, in the morning and afternoon for registration. These were at least 5-6 times the volume of those skinny lockers in the corridors that I saw often in other schools. I remember someone removing an ice cream tub that had contained sandwiches at the end of one year. He should have submitted it as a science project.

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Lostinthebackground@reddit

Was in secondary 2005-2010. I didn’t have lockers for yrs7-9. Then they rebuilt the school and added lockers for each student, so had them for yr 9&10. No payment/deposit for them that I know of.

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pickled-Lime@reddit

Our lockers got used, but only to throw people into. Broke a couple ribs that way

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TKBtu1@reddit

Are, but not many. Most of us carried our stuff around whilst a few had lockers

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charlotterose23@reddit

Yeah we had lockers, either in classrooms if they fit or along corridors. Used it mainly for PE kit! Couldn't fit much else in it tbh

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BigfatDan1@reddit

We had lockers, went to school in 2001-2006. The kicker was that you had to pay for the use of one. I can't remember the exact amount but we couldn't afford it, it was quite expensive.

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greggery@reddit

We did, they were handy for keeping textbooks in for subjects you didn't have homework for on a particular day and to not have to keep them at home

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peekachou@reddit

We had the option to get lockers, I think it was a £10 deposit to cover the 5 years there that you got back at the end, quite a few people used them. Very average state school 2010-2015

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RNEngHyp@reddit

We did, but they were open lockers, more like pigeon-holes, so they were pretty much pointless for any valuables. They would have saved lugging stuff about but my form room was on one side of campus and most of my classes and the library/canteen at the opposite end of campus, quite a walk away.

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Ancient-Awareness115@reddit

My school, no, they would have been robbed on the regular. My kids' school was supposed to have them for every kid, but they ended up merging 2 schools into the same building, so they didn't have space, so only the prefects got lockers

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Normal-Height-8577@reddit

We had lockers. You had to pay for the privilege though, and then it usually turned out that your locker was at the arse end of nowhere and there was never enough time to get to them between lessons, so I never bothered to use it. The only thing I couldn't lug around easily was my french horn (which wouldn't have fitted in the locker) so that got stored in one of the music rooms on the one day a week I needed it.

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jesuseatsbees@reddit

No. I desperately wanted them after seeing them on American TV shows, but tvf they'd have been vandalised in minutes at my school anyway. My son's school has them (not private) but you have to pay.

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blodblodblod@reddit

We had them in my Welsh Valleys comp in the mid 90s. They were tiny though, and my one was at floor level, while a tiny classmate of mine had one at around 6ft. We swapped.

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Slight-Awareness-964@reddit

We had lockers in a non private school

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ExpensiveTaste8@reddit

We used to have lockers in our school. At the start of the year, you would be assigned a locker, and at the end of the year, you would have to give back the key. As far as I remember, no one actually used them.

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B0-Katan@reddit

We had lockers in every form room. School policy was no bags during the school day, so you'd arrive and put everything into your locker and carry the books you needed for each block of classes, returning at lunch/breaks to retrieve your next set and so on. It was really annoying and inefficient imo

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Vena_Mala@reddit

Well TIL not every school had lockers. I went to a different school for secondary and sixth form, both state schools and both of them had lockers. I pretty much only used it to store my PE kit, not all my books like they seem to do in American shows though.

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ChemistryQuirky2215@reddit

We had lockers, but you had to pay for them

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Amzy29@reddit

Yes, we had lockers. There were the old ones that were small wooden ones and you had to provide your own padlock. These lined certain corridors and often in higher floors. Then they also introduced the metal ones that were bigger and in a more accessible locations on the ground floor and you had to provide a deposit to get the keys. I ended up having one of each so I could strategically place things so they didn’t have to be carried.

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missuseme@reddit

We had lockers but they were in our form rooms, which we only had access to for 20 minutes at the start of every day and at no other time. So we're basically completely pointless

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Luna259@reddit

Yes. Then we discovered one key could open multiple lockers. Don’t know how many people used the lockers. Grammar School if that’s important

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ClassroomDowntown664@reddit

went to secondary between 14-19 at a good state school and we didn't have lockers but our teachers kept our books and if you had food teck you could take it to the class room first thing

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Creative-Solution@reddit

Nope, we just had to keep everything in our bags

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Environmental_Mix944@reddit

We had lockers and actually weren’t allowed to carry backpacks around, but they got rid of them at some point. We also would put our ingredients for food tech in the fridges in the morning rather than lugging it around all day.

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Abwettar@reddit

We had lockers. The guy who had his locker next to mine worked with my mam in the local cafe so I was greeted each morning with "I fucked your mam last night".

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BCircle907@reddit

We had lockers (inner London comprehensive), but you’d have to have been mad to put anything of value in there

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megsiemalonie@reddit

We had lockers. We kept the same locker from year 7 through to year 11. Was only little but was decent to put in your PE kit if you had food tech and pe on the same day.

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amzlrr@reddit

29, we had lockers but they were tiny. Mainly used for PE kit

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Lucxica@reddit

Had lockers but you had to pay for a key and lock, chunk of people used them but not alot

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SeanyWestside_@reddit

We only had them in years 10 and 11 when we had more coursework for GCSEs, but this is going back 15-16 years.

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E-Step@reddit

We had lockers, but had to supply our own padlocks Occasionally a rack of lockers would also end up being pushed down a set of stairs

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aicol88@reddit

Yup. But we basically didn't use them cuz they kept locking the common rooms between breaks and didn't have time to get our stuff in between classes

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Stinky_Socks69420@reddit

Not in my secondary school but I went to a different sixth form and my sixth form’s school did but you had to pay £5 for a key

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fat_mummy@reddit

Work in a secondary. They have lockers.

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smartief1@reddit

We did at mu high school. You had to pay £5 a year for it. Definitely worth it not to carry everything around all day.

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N7twitch@reddit

2000-2005 normal not-posh schools (switched schools in yr 8). Had lockers in both. The first school they were a decent size, I could fit my razor scooter (which was the fashion at the time) in there. Second school was smaller but you could still fit your books, pe kit etc in there. On a food tech day it got a bit crowded.

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Use_Rear_Entrance@reddit

Never had lockers in any school.

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theProffPuzzleCode@reddit

Yes, but early Gen X here, so, of course, huge great lockers. We had to supply our own padlock. The metalwork teacher had a massive pair of bolt cutters for snapping padlocks when we forgot our keys and needed urgent access 🤣

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ExPristina@reddit

Yep. Lockers were all the rage. Found a tricolour book and a porno mag when I first opened mine.

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DannyJ47_@reddit

I'm pretty sure we didn't have lockers at my Secondary School, but that was like twenty years ago so I might have forgotten!

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VolcanicBoar@reddit

There were some lockers. You had to apply for them. No one used them, we just used our backpacks.

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mwhi1017@reddit

We had them, you had to deposit £5 at the start of the year if you were 'successful' in getting one (made it sound like a raffle, the reality is not everyone wanted or needed one). They were tiny, and I got given a key that someone else had and came in one day to find my stuff strewn across the corridor and someone else's stuff in it. Never bothered with one after that, and I never got the deposit back either despite me kicking off about being double allocated.

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coffee_and_tv_easily@reddit

We had wooden lockers the first couple of years that didn’t actually lock so you didn’t really want to leave much in them. We got proper lockers in my last year

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HashDefTrueFalse@reddit

We had them, but the school, in it's infinite wisdom, decided that we were never allowed to use them. Detention if you messed with them. No reason given. We walked past them every day for 5 years whilst carrying all our coats, books, PE kit, cooking ingredients etc, on our backs and dumping them under the desk in lessons. I'm guessing the previous cohort got up to some locker-involved shenanigans that spoiled a nice thing for everyone forever :(

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countvanderhoff@reddit

None in mine, I always thought they were an American thing

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Remote-Pool7787@reddit

Yes, had lockers from age 11 until I left. We had 6 periods a day with a break every 2, so you just took with you what you needed to the next 2 lessons

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Bring_back_Apollo@reddit

Yes, they weren’t full-length and people just use it for their PE kits, cooking supplies, and course books and the like. People would complain if they were too high or too low.

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SendMeZenoTiddies@reddit

We had the massive American style lockers in my school for the first three years until they were replaced with much smaller ones to increase capacity. I loved my American locker it had so much room.

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

We did, but nor enough for one each. You had to pay a deposit to have a locker, so I never did. I'd guess around 1 in 5 pupils had a locker?

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babycallmemabel@reddit

We did, but only for year 7-9. We didn't get them in 10 and 11, which really is when they'd have come in handy because I was having to juggle an A1 portfolio, my bag, and my PE kit on some days.

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Forward_Artist_6244@reddit

Yes but they weren't American style lockers they were about the size of an overhead caravan cupboard, but there was barely time to use them and they were too small for gym kit

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Jlaw118@reddit

We had lockers, if I’m right in thinking we had to pay a deposit for them or some sort of fee though. But they were a bit pointless and a farce to use them because they were usually in our form room where we’d go for registration first thing on a morning and at the end of the day. We couldn’t always have access to the room due to other classes going on during the day and sometimes at lunch or break times the room would be locked. So it was a gamble if we ever had food tech and PE on the same day

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tale_of_two_wolves@reddit

Yes, we had them, but they were practically useless. Wooden lockers, about a foot in height, couldn't fit much in. They were free, but you had to provide your own padlock. Hardly anybody used them. We still had to carry all our stuff for the day, including PE kit and all our textbooks for lessons. 5 x 1 hour lessons with 1 x 15 minute morning break and 1 x hour lunch meant not many opportunities in the day to use the bathroom or visit your locker. Changing lessons was always a faff and no time for diversions. There were lockers in each "home" area, each year had a designated section of the school known as their homeroom, which remained your area over the 5 years.

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Outrageous-Ferret223@reddit

Nope. We did but everyone trashed them so they were gone.

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No_Area7646@reddit

Same lol

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

We had lockers. But no one ever used them.

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cubevic@reddit

We had them but they were essentially useless. Mine was in my form room at the top of a 4 storey building. There wasn’t time to get to it between classes or at the end of the day before the bus. Also, due to being inside a classroom you couldn’t guarantee access to it on the rare occasions you’d be nearby.

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RedDogElPresidente@reddit

No lockers 89-94 and smallest kid in my class Joleon P, used to bring every single thick book that we’d need for the week in his bag every day and he’d lean when he walked around was so heavy and carry it all around the school. He must of had back issues or spent a fair whack on osteopath.

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TheeDeme@reddit

I went to school in 2002 - 2007 and we didn't have lockers. I remember having to ask my form tutor if I could leave my food tech/PE kit/coat in the cupboard.

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peach_clouds@reddit

We had lockers at our high school but only coat pegs in primary/junior. Everyone was given a locker but had to pay for our own padlock. We also weren’t allowed to carry bags around with us at all and were only allowed to carry two classes worth of books, as we were expected to swap them over at break/lunch.

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Bilbo_Buggin@reddit

We had them, lots were damaged though. I used the one I had though, it was pretty useful!

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weirddogbas@reddit

Only the y11s. I got to use one because my neighbour had one and never showed up to school. I got to have aaall of it to myself lmfao.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Went to private school and didn't have them. Kids in state secondary can have them if they want, but unless they do sport clubs they rarely bother.

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NL0606@reddit

I had a locker but I literally only used it for my P.E kit and the odd bit of oversized homework in like yr7 and that was it and I didn't use it at all in yr10 or 11 as I didn't go to PE.

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bnliz@reddit

Yep lockers with a combination code dial like in films! Same one for all 5 years. Late 90s/early 00s.

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Single-Aardvark9330@reddit

We had them at my secondary, we pretty much just used them for PE kits and you'd still have to carry them round most the day as you could only get to your locker at the very beginning of break or before/after school

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Wibblejellytime@reddit

No lockers in the early nineties. I gave up clarinet lessons because I couldn't carry round PE kit, instrument, music + all the other stuff everywhere multiple times a day. Also most of the other kids were too cool to even carry a pencil round with them 🙄.

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Widepaul@reddit

Never had any in ours, always thought that was an American thing.

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Euffy@reddit

Yes, we had lockers. Everyone used them, they were essential! But I did go to a grammar school. But that usually meant we had private school expectations with public school money lol. Wasn't exactly posh or luxurious!

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Awkward_Chain_7839@reddit

We didn’t. The day we had P.E., band practice (tenor horn) and orchestra practice (violin) is never forgotten. Especially because it was a mile and a half walk to school and I never had a lift so I walked.

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Experiment62693@reddit

Only got them in my last year there after years and years of campaigning by thr student Council, and even then they were just for year 10 and 11s sixth form had a whole sixth form centre, and you had to pay for them, after I left think it went to any year

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SavingsSquare2649@reddit

We had lockers located outside our tutor groups, it was £5 deposit for the year. I don’t actually remember anyone using them though.

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

If you wanted a locker you had to pay for one , these were kept in the main school building, there were some in the upper school building For food tech we could leave our dishes/food before our lesson and pick our dish up at the end of the day, as only one class per day cooked

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VardaElentari86@reddit

Not for most of the time. Then some were put in but really only for 4th years and up if I remember rightly. It's been knocked down and rebuilt so no clue what they do now!

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YchYFi@reddit

We had lockers but didn't use them really.

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Paracosm26@reddit

Yes, we did. After I left, I found the newer lockers are situated outdoors.

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Bulky_Parsnip8@reddit

We had lockers, from year 7 to year 11.

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CTre89@reddit

We had tiny lockers but they were useless. In US schools, it seems like all the classes are in one big building, so the lockers are centrally located and easy to access. My school was massive and spread across a huge site with loads of buildings. Your allocated locker could be way on the other side of the site, with no time to get there between classes - so you might as well carry your stuff.

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Expensive-Honey-1527@reddit

Yep I had one in the mid to late nineties. Number 639. It was along a really busy corridor and a right pain to stop at when there was a flow of kids pushing past. I always envied the kids who had lockers in the spacious common areas.

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Realkevinnash59@reddit

yes, I went to a state school, we had lockers. They were mainly used by the year 7s who thought they needed to bring all their books in every day. I only used mine to put my PE kit in and football boots in after it was raining because they smelled, then lost the key. When I got it opened for me a week or so later they'd gone mouldy, and the smell never really left the locker so i stopped using it. A fun activity the bad kids had was to punch the lockers, so the door bent inwards and wasn't secure anymore. There were about 3000 kids at my school and about 3000 lockers, every hallway was lined with them and lots of locker rooms where people hung out on breaks/lunch.

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penguin62@reddit

Yes but you had to pay a fiver deposit for the year for the key and I didn't know what a deposit was so I never did. Never needed it tbh. My bag was always big enough and not unwieldy.

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DebraUknew@reddit

Had them in the 70s at my school and in sixth form

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West_Guarantee284@reddit

We had lockers. I went to high school in 1991 and always had a locker. Had to take your own padlock and it was big enough for books and a PE kit.

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Yes and this was 1993

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

Yes and the only use case was to ensure the School office bolt cutters worked at the end of each term!

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intangible-tangerine@reddit

New building so every kid had a locker and they were big enough to fit all your stuff with room to spare.

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Cuteezie@reddit

We had lockers u could rent in year 7 for the rest of the school time but nobody ever used them I don’t think and people just scratched horrific slurs into them using the keys 💀💀

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Ryuuga_Kun@reddit

Yes, they were small and rubbish, barely fit an empty bag, let alone a bag full of coursework or textbooks. And you can forget about the PE kit

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Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit

We had lockers, not enough for everyone though, don't know how people who didn't have them managed. I think we were lucky though. I've been in a fair amount of secondary schools and very few had lockers. One school I was at also only allowed the students to use drawstring bags or satchels with the schools logo on, so they didn't even have a rucksack to carry everything around in.

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CircularRivers@reddit

We had lockers. I might have used it for my PE kit but I really don't remember.

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