Junior Brandon Yousif understood the new locker situation at Seaholm the same way everyone else did.
He wasn’t thrilled that he would have to be sharing a locker next to his sister due to the new alphabetical locker arrangement—but he would survive.Yousif waited in line, going through the typical start-ofthe- year routine—book fines, pictures, class schedule, new textbooks and student IDs.
But when it came to lockers, Yousif, along with roughly 200 other students, was left in the dark.
“They told me there was some confusion made with locker assignment,” Yousif said.
For the first few days of school, Yousif had to organize trips to his sister’s car, where he was forced to keep his books.
Within a week Yousif was sick of the useless run to the student lot and started scavenging for empty lockers.
Although Yousif was able to find a spot in the upstairs Bhallway, he was still a bit disgruntled.
“I don’t want to say they were unprofessional about [the lockers].” Yousif said. “Just maybe unprepared.”
Two weeks ago the school installed new lockers down the halls leading up to the wrestling room and the athletic office.
Now that the school has made amends to accommodate all of Seaholm’s student storage needs, there is only one thing left to do—alert the students left locker-less.
The lockers have been in place for roughly two weeks and, according to Yousif, no notification has been given to these students.
“I’m fine with my locker situation and I hope I can keep it,” Yousif said. “But there are also a lot of other kids.”
According to Principal Dee Lancaster the enrollment was a total of 1275 students. However, there were only 1,100 lockers.
“We knew we were going to be short,” Lancaster said. “So we told the students we were going to get them ordered right away.”
Although the school took immediate action in ordering the lockers, the entire process took over four months.
“It takes forever,” Lancaster said. “They have to be the right size, right color and we had to KOM Cont. from page 1 figure out where they were going to go.”
Now that the lockers have arrived with a price tag of over $22,000, Lancaster said that many students don’t actually need them.
“Either kids are just carrying [their books] around in their backpacks or they buddied up with their friends which is what we encouraged them to do.” Lancaster said.
According to Lancaster, the lockers came out of District Capital Improvement Budget, not the Seaholm budget.
