Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not OP, but when I hear this argument, a lot of schools wouldn’t let you go to your locker between all classes. That, or your classes were so far apart, you didn’t have time to go even get to your locker between them. There were some days I could only get to my locker once.

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well that’s why I ask, we had lockers, that were easy to access between classes with minimal planning. It just blows my mind how many people did have a locker…

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  • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. I had a locker next to the school’s music room in the farthest corner once. Fun year.

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• eli@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My highschool, which I graduated mid 2010s, didn’t have lockers.

  We had gym lockers, which was just to put our stuff for that one gym period, it wasn’t “our own”.

  So, no. Not all highschools have lockers.

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• nile_istic@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My high school didn’t have lockers. I assume mine isn’t the only one.

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• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My high school, among other interesting design decisions, didn’t have any lockers in the academic areas. So you had a locker that was way over by the gyms, or out by the shop classes, or if you were lucky in the cafeteria (because then you could at least stash your lunch in it).

  The administration also seemed to be completely mystified as to why everyone carried around huge backpacks.

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