Lockers

As we move toward utilizing more digital resources and fewer heavy instructional materials, we find that students are less interested in using their assigned lockers. Students will not automatically be assigned a locker but will be provided with an opportunity at the beginning of a school year to request one. All students can request a locker by completing the Locker Assignment Request Form and will be contacted with their locker information. Students should never share a locker or provide their combination to others.

According to East Penn School Board Policy 226:

Lockers are assigned to or otherwise made available to students as a convenience for the safe storage of books, clothing, school materials and limited personal property, and to facilitate movement between classes and activities and to and from school. Such lockers are and shall remain the property of the school district, and to the extent students have any expectation of privacy of lockers at all, it is very limited.

No student may place or keep in a locker any substance or object that is prohibited by law, Board policy or school rules, or that constitutes a threat to the health, safety or welfare of the occupants of the school building or the building itself. Students are required to ensure that their lockers do not contain spoiled food items or beverages, or soiled clothing which may attract pests, create odors or cause unhealthy conditions. A student locker may be opened and inspected for cleanliness, with or without the consent of the student, whenever there are odors, pests or other indications that a locker contains spoiled food, soiled clothing in need of laundering or similarly unhealthy matter.

Students are exclusively responsible for locking their assigned lockers to ensure the security of their personal belongings and school property entrusted to them. Students are permitted to secure their assigned lockers only with locks provided by the district, or if the district does not provide locks, personal combination locks for which the combination has been provided to designated school staff.

Prior to an individual locker search or inspection, the student to whom the locker is assigned shall be notified and be given a reasonable opportunity to be present. However, when there is a reasonable suspicion that a locker contains materials which pose a threat to the health, welfare or safety of the school population, student lockers may be searched without prior notice to the student.

The building principal or a designated staff person shall be present whenever a student locker is inspected for cleanliness or is searched. The principal or designee shall maintain written records of all occasions when a locker is searched or inspected. Such records shall include the reason(s) for the search, persons present, objects found and their disposition.

Gym Lockers

All students are required to complete 1 full credit of Wellness/Fitness classes (0.25 credits/class, 1 class each year) for which they will be allowed access to the lockers in the locker rooms. Since there are not enough lockers for the entire student body, locks are issued to students each year for use on the gym lockers during their gym class. Wellness/Fitness classes meet every day of either an A or B days for one semester, so locks are to be removed at the end of class so other students may have access to the lockers as well. Student's are strongly encouraged to lock their belongings during their gym class. 

Locks must be returned to the teacher after the completion of the class each year. Those students who fail to return their locks will be responsible for replacement costs and will be on the debt list until that debt has been paid.

Students on the debt list will not receive parking passes, diplomas, or prom tickets until debt has been cleared.