If you’re a student you should feel safe enough to be able to put your stuff in your locker and expect it to be there by the time you come back. So why can’t we? Locker thieves. The ones that steal your belongings without a care in the world, and there’s almost nothing you can do about it.

You could try going to School Resource Officer Jerry Varner but if you were robbed in the locker room, he can’t do anything about it, due to there being no cameras in the locker rooms. You could try hunting the robber down but 9 times out of 10 you will never find them, and if you do, do you honestly think they’ll be so willing to give whatever they took up?

Most of us have been through this hateful act. I personally was robbed my freshman year, perhaps the most vulnerable year in high school.

It was after my birthday, when my wallet was full from all the money my relatives so thoughtfully given me. I had over $200 in my bookbag, and was naive enough to leave it outside my locker where I thought it was safe in the locker room. But when I came back, my wallet was empty. I bet a lot of you are thinking “Why would you bring that much money to school anyway?” Well, I was super stubborn and the new me looks back at the old me asking the same exact thing.

After crying a little, I did the only thing any normal teenager would do. I went to the police and cried a lot more. It’s not Varner’s fault that he couldn’t do anything about it The only possible solution is to really put everything you want safe inside your locker and double check and make sure that your locker is shut with everything in it. Don’t let the locker thiefs win, we can easily fight back and beat them if we all come together in unity and shut our lockers.