January 20, 2009
What does your school do to help relieve backpack weight?
Can you answer Mastiff4me's question about backpacks?:
I volunteer at a middle school and their backpacks are crazy heavy. I'm looking for solutions to present to the school board. They do not have lockers nor is that an option. Do any of the schools you attend have two sets of books? One that goes home and one that stay's at school. Do the parents purchase the ones that stay at home? How does that process work. Any other suggestions? It is just too much for a 90 pound 7th grader to carry a backpack that weighs 30 pounds. They have five text books that are required to come home each day. HELP!
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I volunteer at a middle school and their backpacks are crazy heavy. I'm looking for solutions to present to the school board. They do not have lockers nor is that an option. Do any of the schools you attend have two sets of books? One that goes home and one that stay's at school. Do the parents purchase the ones that stay at home? How does that process work. Any other suggestions? It is just too much for a 90 pound 7th grader to carry a backpack that weighs 30 pounds. They have five text books that are required to come home each day. HELP!
Hurley Backpack
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Have you tried covering the books with gravabook. Its a thin transparent film which you use to wrap a book cover that actually reverses the effects of gravity.
Well, my High School makes me carry two textbooks, and 4 binders. That by itself weighs 30-40 pounds (these are very thick textbooks.) But I have never heard of making middle-schoolers carry 5 textbooks every day! You should have that school do what my school does, and have the students keep 1 book per class at home, and have a set that stays in the classroom. For example, in AP US History, our teacher sent a book home with us, for homework, and we use a class set during the school day. Seriously, those kids WILL have back problems later if they have to carry all that weight for 170-something more days. Good Luck!
I'm in 8th grade and we have books to take home at the beginning of school and we have a class set. So are back backs are not 50 pounds maybe you should talk to the principle into getting class sets instead of giving all the kids back problems…
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If you have to carry all your books, your school better have an in-house chiropractor. I strongly support your decision to present this problem and solutions to the school board, and I wish you the best of luck.
My chemistry class has a classroom set, so that we can leave our textbooks home. Some teachers will issue you two books so you can leave one at home and have the other at school provided that you have a note. (There's no purchasing involved, but if you lose a book, you pay for it. Having an extra book at home increases the chance of losing one, I suppose.) My history teachers de facto let us leave books at home because we never used them in class.