School Bans Backpacks

With expected results...

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-fears-school-ban-backpacks-students-improvise-1633820

I think the school administrators need to be banned, next...

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CestManan · 46-50, F

I remember when I was in 3rd grade in our district they made bags or back packs mandatory.

What had happened was a student had dropped some of his papers, they blew around, and he went chasing them under the bus and you know what happened next.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@CestManan Doctors have long criticized schools for forcing students to carry many large, heavy textbooks home and back every night. Whether they are in backpacks or not. Sometimes kids are carrying more than half their body weight in BOOKS, due to homework assignments that each require one or two really heavy books. Get homework from 3 or 4 classes, and .....

So when a friend told me that a school was BANNING backpacks, my initial thought was...well, they'd better fricking ban HOMEWORK then, also. It's bad enough to be forced to carry all that weight. But take away the backpack? REALLY?!?!?!?!?