"OMG, They're Beautiful!"

It happened. I really never 100% believed it would, but it really happened.

Our too-narrow, old, bent, fall-out-of-the-wall, graffitied lockers are gone.

They have been replaced by brand new, never-been-touched, blue beauties. They will even fit a backpack.

It’s been a long time since we had new lockers - I’d guess 25 or 30 years. And the purplish/red ones were just plain worn out.

A few years ago we had a long-term substitute who had attended the Bartlett. At the end of the year she taught here I was cleaning out some lockers, and I noticed her name written inside what had been her 8th grade locker.

Before that, and on two separate occasions, banks of lockers had somehow become detached from whatever holds them into the walls, and had come crashing down into the hallways. They were propped back into place and secured to the wall again, but I was always nervous having kids in the hallways near those two spots. 

The Bartlett Community Partnership School has been neglected for so long it just feels amazing to have a few of the basics that most other schools have. 

Your teachers have been asked not to slap stickers or labels on the lockers - we want to keep them looking new for a long, long time. You can help with that too. 

• Let’s work together to keep these lockers clean and fresh. 

• Let’s not use them as trash receptacles, let’s not store milk or unwanted fruit in them. 

• Let’s not slam them so loud the kids at the Stok can hear it.

Between the lockers, the new water fountains, the new entryway (not including dumpsters), a lot of fresh paint and some other things happening, our school is improving.

The Bartlett is comin’ back, baby, and you get to be part of it!