I just stepped out of the office and they actually folded because the bag ban is officially off the table which is honestly wild to think about after all the stress of the last few weeks. My hands are still shaking a bit typing this but I really hope we …
January 21, 2022
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SIGN THIS PETITION to continue to be allowed to carry bookbags! SHARE THIS PETITION to advocate for student safety and stop the school from taking advantage of the student body.
Recently, Warren G. Harding High School administrators announced their intent to ban students from carrying bookbags, starting on January 3, 2022. The school's decision to ban students from carrying bookbags and mandate the use of lockers is dangerous and ineffective.
The school administrators are trying to RESTRICT student autonomy, PROFIT off damaged laptops, and increase the SPREAD OF GERMS and COVID. Additionally, the school is increasing the risk of a DEADLY SCHOOL SHOOTING.
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The school has cited the hope of slowing the distribution of drugs and illegal material within the student body as their reasoning behind the bookbag ban. This reasoning is shallow at best: What is to stop students from distributing materials at their lockers? Students can still bring items into the school building, and passing illegal material is much easier to do in a crowded hallway as opposed to an open classroom.
The school hallways- already crowded WITHOUT the locker mandate- will become more frenzied if this mandate is instated. Numerous lockers on both sides of the hallway will be opened to allow students to access their supplies, further narrowing the hallways and making them more CRAMPED. Students will be forced to choose between making it to class on time and having their supplies. The stairways will also see a significant increase in traffic as many students have lockers that are not on the same floor as the majority of their classes. For example, many juniors have lockers on the first floor despite having most of their classes on the second or third floors. Rushed students will try to move between the floors in even greater numbers, increasing the RISK OF ACCIDENTS and broken valuables.
Broken valuables, specifically school-issued laptops, will allow the school to PROFIT off the bookbag ban. The school will be forcing students to carry their laptops unprotected through crowded hallways, increasing the number of laptops that are crushed, stepped on, dropped, and otherwise broken. This is good for the school administrators, who will be making $250 for each laptop. The school does not provide laptop cases, telling the student body that they don't care about the students' wallets in the wake of this new mandate. Other valuables are also in danger: Students who keep other expensive items like phones and glasses will have no place to put their items during passing time. The school may also seek to increase their locker profits in the future by INSTATING A LOCKER FEE. The school could start charging students for lockers, giving many students no choice but to carry all of their possessions with no carrier.
The locker mandate will also ADD to the filth of the school building and INCREASE the SPREAD OF COVID. Everyday, students sit in classrooms that are not properly cleaned, at desks that are crawling with filth and germs. Now, the school is adding to the grime by increasing the amount of contact students have with UNSANITIZED surfaces. Lockers and their locks WILL NOT BE CLEANED despite the fact that students will be interacting with them multiple times a day. Also, since the hallways will be narrower because of increased traffic, students will be LESS SOCIALLY DISTANCED during passing time, raising their risk of getting infected.
Finally, the school is making potential school shootings MORE DEADLY. Since the hallways will be more crowded, a school shooter would be able to shoot more students in a short amount of time by simply standing at their locker. Innocent students trying to grab their school supplies would have no chance to flee, creating an easy mob of students for a school shooter to pick off. Students who were lucky enough to be in a classroom away from the shooter would be less likely to have their phones on their person, and thus less likely to CALL FOR HELP in an EMERGENCY. Students would not have a place to keep their phones, and so would be more likely to leave their phones in their lockers, rendering their phones USELESS and the students HELPLESS.
SIGN THIS PETITION to protect Warren G. Harding High School students. The administrators who are making this decision will not have to deal with the fallout, and they are sacrificing the well being of the students. You can PROTECT STUDENT RIGHTS by signing this petition and showing the school that playing with your safety is NOT OKAY.
SHARE THIS PETITION to stop the school from making dangerous and exploitative decisions for the student body.
Updates
December 15, 2021
I spent the entire morning staring at those narrow hallways and honestly I can barely picture us all trying to shove stuff into those rusted lockers without someone getting trampled. People keep messaging me saying their heavy textbooks are already ruining their backs and I really think the administration has forgotten we actually have to live through these ridiculous rules every single day.
December 15, 2021
I really never expected this to take off like it did because honestly I was just angry when I started typing this up at my kitchen table. The momentum is totally surreal and it makes me feel like maybe the administration actually has to listen to us now since so many people see how ridiculous this locker rule is.
Reached 100 supporters
December 15, 2021
55 Comments
No cause its not fair as someone with mental issues and who had asthma not to have my bag on hand when i need it
we need our book bags for our papers and our computers. the computers are most likely to get broken without a book bad to carry them in around the school, it’s not fair
it is unfair that they are banning bookings an purses because of something g someone else did.
i feel that we should keep them we already barely have enough time to get to our classes so why should we have to stop at our lockers espically if there way on another floor
with covid and everything nowadays including time between classes and how far around the building some have to go i dont think book bags should be banned from classrooms
Fahrenheit 451
WHAT THE HECK STOP BOOKBA
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I just stepped out of the office and they actually folded because the bag ban is officially off the table which is honestly wild to think about after all the stress of the last few weeks. My hands are still shaking a bit typing this but I really hope we …
January 21, 2022
Final supporters
SIGN THIS PETITION to continue to be allowed to carry bookbags! SHARE THIS PETITION to advocate for student safety and stop the school from taking advantage of the student body.
Recently, Warren G. Harding High School administrators announced their intent to ban students from carrying bookbags, starting on January 3, 2022. The school's decision to ban students from carrying bookbags and mandate the use of lockers is dangerous and ineffective.
The school administrators are trying to RESTRICT student autonomy, PROFIT off damaged laptops, and increase the SPREAD OF GERMS and COVID. Additionally, the school is increasing the risk of a DEADLY SCHOOL SHOOTING.
--MORE INFORMATION--
The school has cited the hope of slowing the distribution of drugs and illegal material within the student body as their reasoning behind the bookbag ban. This reasoning is shallow at best: What is to stop students from distributing materials at their lockers? Students can still bring items into the school building, and passing illegal material is much easier to do in a crowded hallway as opposed to an open classroom.
The school hallways- already crowded WITHOUT the locker mandate- will become more frenzied if this mandate is instated. Numerous lockers on both sides of the hallway will be opened to allow students to access their supplies, further narrowing the hallways and making them more CRAMPED. Students will be forced to choose between making it to class on time and having their supplies. The stairways will also see a significant increase in traffic as many students have lockers that are not on the same floor as the majority of their classes. For example, many juniors have lockers on the first floor despite having most of their classes on the second or third floors. Rushed students will try to move between the floors in even greater numbers, increasing the RISK OF ACCIDENTS and broken valuables.
Broken valuables, specifically school-issued laptops, will allow the school to PROFIT off the bookbag ban. The school will be forcing students to carry their laptops unprotected through crowded hallways, increasing the number of laptops that are crushed, stepped on, dropped, and otherwise broken. This is good for the school administrators, who will be making $250 for each laptop. The school does not provide laptop cases, telling the student body that they don't care about the students' wallets in the wake of this new mandate. Other valuables are also in danger: Students who keep other expensive items like phones and glasses will have no place to put their items during passing time. The school may also seek to increase their locker profits in the future by INSTATING A LOCKER FEE. The school could start charging students for lockers, giving many students no choice but to carry all of their possessions with no carrier.
The locker mandate will also ADD to the filth of the school building and INCREASE the SPREAD OF COVID. Everyday, students sit in classrooms that are not properly cleaned, at desks that are crawling with filth and germs. Now, the school is adding to the grime by increasing the amount of contact students have with UNSANITIZED surfaces. Lockers and their locks WILL NOT BE CLEANED despite the fact that students will be interacting with them multiple times a day. Also, since the hallways will be narrower because of increased traffic, students will be LESS SOCIALLY DISTANCED during passing time, raising their risk of getting infected.
Finally, the school is making potential school shootings MORE DEADLY. Since the hallways will be more crowded, a school shooter would be able to shoot more students in a short amount of time by simply standing at their locker. Innocent students trying to grab their school supplies would have no chance to flee, creating an easy mob of students for a school shooter to pick off. Students who were lucky enough to be in a classroom away from the shooter would be less likely to have their phones on their person, and thus less likely to CALL FOR HELP in an EMERGENCY. Students would not have a place to keep their phones, and so would be more likely to leave their phones in their lockers, rendering their phones USELESS and the students HELPLESS.
SIGN THIS PETITION to protect Warren G. Harding High School students. The administrators who are making this decision will not have to deal with the fallout, and they are sacrificing the well being of the students. You can PROTECT STUDENT RIGHTS by signing this petition and showing the school that playing with your safety is NOT OKAY.
SHARE THIS PETITION to stop the school from making dangerous and exploitative decisions for the student body.
Updates
December 15, 2021
I spent the entire morning staring at those narrow hallways and honestly I can barely picture us all trying to shove stuff into those rusted lockers without someone getting trampled. People keep messaging me saying their heavy textbooks are already ruining their backs and I really think the administration has forgotten we actually have to live through these ridiculous rules every single day.
December 15, 2021
I really never expected this to take off like it did because honestly I was just angry when I started typing this up at my kitchen table. The momentum is totally surreal and it makes me feel like maybe the administration actually has to listen to us now since so many people see how ridiculous this locker rule is.
Reached 100 supporters
December 15, 2021
55 Comments
We cannot control people bring backpacks With snacks, And other types of Things. This Backpack ban is going to mess up a lot of peoples record because For people with lockers on first floor Are gonna be late. Someone can be on the other side of The building And on third floor, they Only got 4 MINUTES to get to and from place-to-place. And the hood Rule Should be Only in only the hallways. In a classroom We got seating charts for a reason, Use your little charts to identify Who ever sits there. These are Rules with lack of sense.
No cause its not fair as someone with mental issues and who had asthma not to have my bag on hand when i need it
we need our book bags for our papers and our computers. the computers are most likely to get broken without a book bad to carry them in around the school, it’s not fair
it is unfair that they are banning bookings an purses because of something g someone else did.
i feel that we should keep them we already barely have enough time to get to our classes so why should we have to stop at our lockers espically if there way on another floor
with covid and everything nowadays including time between classes and how far around the building some have to go i dont think book bags should be banned from classrooms
Fahrenheit 451
WHAT THE HECK STOP BOOKBA
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We cannot control people bring backpacks With snacks, And other types of Things. This Backpack ban is going to mess up a lot of peoples record because For people with lockers on first floor Are gonna be late. Someone can be on the other side of The building And on third floor, they Only got 4 MINUTES to get to and from place-to-place. And the hood Rule Should be Only in only the hallways. In a classroom We got seating charts for a reason, Use your little charts to identify Who ever sits there. These are Rules with lack of sense.