Locker room approach sparks irritation

Athletes discuss frustration with practice

Abby Intveld and Dani Orloff

According to Principal Scott Meyers, the locker rooms are only available for physical education classes during school.

“Students should not be using locker room lockers as their regular locker,” Meyers said.

“Really just in that overlap, roughly 10 to 15 minutes in between classes and getting ready and coming back from class, that’s when the locker room can be available and open,” Meyers said.

According to Meyers, teachers and grade level coordinators (GLCs) are responsible for ensuring the locker rooms remain locked during the school day.

Segal said she believes the locked locker rooms create an inconvenience for athletes.

“We need to come in and put our stuff in there otherwise we’re going to carry it around all day,” Segal said.

Meyers said the locker rooms were always intended to be locked during the day, however it was not fully enforced last year. “My understanding is that was not

what was actually happening last year even though that was the request,” Meyers said. Meyers said when physical education classes are not occuring, the locker rooms are closed to prevent truancy.

“They should be locked during the day because we don’t want it to become a hang- out or a place where students can miss out on class,” Meyers said.

Senior Cyrus Abrahamson said follow- ing Nordic practice, the team was unable to put away its skis because they were locked.

“If a GLC had not come walking around, we probably would have been out there for longer,” Abrahamson said.