Weather Sports Business Entertainment Calendar TV Listings Books Travel Outdoors 20 Below Careers Homes Wheels Milestones Shopping Yellow Pages Advertising Sign up here to receive Teen Beat, a monthly 20 Below e-newsletter. Out of the 50 people surveyed, only 4 percent said they liked the size of their locker. This means many of the students want them bigger so they can actually use them. Of the people surveyed, only 14 percent said their locker is in a convenient place.
Students are sometimes late to class because their locker is far away from their classes.
When the students were asked if they used their locker, only 34 percent said yes. This low percentage shows that students see going to lockers between class as a real hassle. The average weight for a high school student's backpack is 20 pounds, while statistics show a backpack should only weigh 10 percent of a person's body weight. If a person weighs less than 200 pounds, they are carrying too much weight. This could cause back problems in future years.