Can an audit also evaluate lockers and locker placement?
The push for improvements in locker design and placement has to come from school administrators. The traditional arrangement has lockers on one or both sides of the hallways which can cause a chaotic situation that inevitably results in some pushing and shoving. One alternative is to place lockers in designated locker bay areas, or open locker alcoves off the hallways. The lockers should not be more than maybe 4 feet to a maximum of 5 feet in height so that teachers on hall duty can look across the locker bay and see what’s going on. Traditionally lockers in gymnasium locker rooms have perforated doors for ventilation and hallway lockers have solid doors. What would be ideal is to have see-through or perforated locker doors in the hallway as well. This would permit staff to see what is stored inside the lockers and deter storing of illegal material such as tobacco, guns, knives, etc.
