It happened. Finally, after making it to class everyday for the past month, it happened. The bell rings as it becomes apparent that the next period is coming, gym. While it might seem that this is no big deal, wait too long, and it will be.

For most students at HHS, there is no real danger of being late to the gym, but to the few who can’t get into the locker rooms, then they might have an issue. At least, unless you ask a teacher. 

“There’s not always someone in here. We have all lockers covered on the grid for supervision, but during the periods again, that’s why we lock we doors because there’s not someone gilding the policy that we don’t have kids coming back and forth because one teacher can’t leave their whole class and do that and then we just can’t leave things openly available for use [in] these restrooms during the period,” Derek Morehart, a gym teacher at HHS, said.

But, why do the teachers lock the gym rooms? This seems simple, the idea of someone wandering in and nabbing something that isn’t theirs, but is it really that commonly done? The locker rooms consist of hundreds of locker rooms with people’s personal locker combination, for them to put their personal belongings, but what of the backpacks that are too big to fit in the locker?

“The kids aren’t always great at locking their belongings in the locker and even now, we have hundreds of backpacks in here for a period that are unsecured. So it’s our job to do some security,” Morehart said. 

While there are other reasons, such as the vandalism increase among the state and country, as well as the added increase of fights and “violence” in our school, the main reason stands, the idea of people getting into the locker rooms and stealing something that was left unchecked, unguarded, and unlocked.