WHHS currently boasts a total enrollment of 2479. With so many young minds wandering the halls in between classes, how do people stay organized? 

Junior high students were urged to get a locker during welcome night. But why? Are lockers truly a helpful resource?

 Anthony Williams, ’29, expressed that lockers might be more of an inconvenience than a resource. 

“You can just carry everything in your backpack,”  Williams said.

Williams said that whenever he needed to store something, he would just ask one of his friends to put it in their lockers and then he just picked it up whenever he needed, without any of the inconveniences of having a locker.

On the contrary, some students, like Tomasz Pankiewicz, ’29, holds lockers to a much higher standard for day-to-day school use. 

“Lockers can be overrated; it really depends on if you have a lot of supplies in your backpack,” Pankiewicz said.

He stated that he wouldn’t recommend a locker to an E-flat but he would to an Effie, as they usually overpack their backpacks.

Despite all his support for lockers, he didn’t claim one for himself, he preferred to carry everything in his bag as it gives him more freedom.

From the younger end, Jonas Moore, ’30, agrees with both Pankiewicz and Williams’s claim in different regards.

“It’s annoying to set up if you’re never going to use it,” Moore said.

He further elaborated that his primary motivation for getting a locker was the convenience it offers during lunch hours. The arrangement seemed practical and beneficial for Moore.  

When asked if Moore would recommend a locker to someone coming into his grade, he replied that he would recommend it to someone with a heavy backpack.