High School Lockers

It’s common knowledge that most of the lockers are obsolete. Few students use them, and many comment that the only real purpose served most lockers is to make commons decorating more interesting. According to Mr. Tremblay, “Right now, in this building, we have thousands of lockers [and] only about one quarter of them are actually being taken by students.” Nowadays, students don’t need to carry around 6-7 textbooks a day, which was the norm in the past. “The model has changed slightly,” Mr. Tremblay states, “[so] I looked at how we can better use that space.”

Next year, several of the banks of lockers in the commons areas will be replaced with dedicated subject study areas. Over the summer, one bank of lockers near the commons windows was removed and replaced with a large board table, with 10 - 12 chairs around it and eight study carrels.

Each commons will be devoted to particular subject - one for math, one for science, one for social studies, and English and foreign language will share a commons area. One teacher will staff each area, like a study hall, each period of the day, and Mr. Tremblay also expressed interest in having peer tutors also help students out.

Mr. Tremblay stated that having these subject-specific study areas will be helpful to students, especially since EHS is moving towards competency-based education. “If a student
The advisory is a thirty minute period during block days where a small group of students will meet with a staff member to discuss a wide variety of topics, from “...social choices and college and career choices [to] helping implement different initiatives here at school,” Mr. Tremblay stated in an interview. To make room for the advisory, block periods are shortened from 100 minutes to 90 minutes, and passing time is five minutes rather than ten (scroll down to the bottom to see the updated bell