A Short Summary On Bowditch

Bowditch Middle School, the only middle school in Foster City, accepts students from three elementary schools. It is a California Distinguished School and yet, it doesn’t seem worthy to be acknowledged. The school enforces the rule that there are no backpacks on campus. This unjust law forces students to shove their backpacks into microscopic lockers and retrieve items from them in order to go to class. This is an absurd rule that needs to be changed.

The lockers on Bowditch campus are about 1 foot and a half by a foot and a half. With this size of a small cube, incoming 6th graders have to abandon their elementary school rolling backpacks to over-the-shoulder ones. In this miniature space, there is only room for a squished backpack and a few books. In addition to this banal design, most lockers are stuffed into a hall which students must infiltrate in order to go to their next class. The worst time of day is after school, when people are trying to reach …show more content…
There were many times I have forgotten important material needed for class. I know what the teachers will say, “It is your responsibility as student to get all of our work in class on time.” However we can’t do that if we have other classes to attend to as well. To make matters worse, some teachers won’t even allow us to go back to our lockers to get our missing work. From what I remember, I had carry around at least three pounds of work to class, and it is incredibly hard to keep track of all my items.

In essence, students at Bowditch should be able to carry their own backpacks. Without our backpacks, it is too time consuming to retrieve our items. The lockers provided for us to place our school-related objects it too small. Finally, it is almost impossible for us to remember everything that we need for our next classes. These are all the reasons why students at Bowditch should be allowed to carry their own