My Daily Drama – Women Daily Drama Only!

Can anyone tell me how to dis-enroll my child from being on the Pack Mule list? What is going on with the book bags in middle school?  Why are they forcing the children to carry so much on their backs.  Each day as I am waiting to pick up my daughter, I watch all the children hunched over with these enormous book bags. They are slanted forward, some are carrying them on the font of their bodies to give their backs a break…it’s just not right.

I understand the reasoning behind taking lockers away, but then there has to be something put in place to reduce the amount of books and supplies being carried in the book bags.  As we all know, children do not grow at the same pace, so the sixth graders that still look like third and fourth graders are buried and weighed down carrying these book bags. My daughter’s book bag does NOT have any text books in it, yet the book bag and supplies weighs fifteen pounds.  Empty, the book bag weighs six pounds, so that means the supplies that she is carrying weighs nine pounds.  That is just insane!!!  Can you imagine the weight of her book bag with text books and supplies?

Knowing how heavy the book bags are, there are still teachers who request things for their class, that is just unnecessary. It is like they are not the least bit concerned that the children are struggling with these book bags as it is.  There has to be a way to alleviate some of the weight, why can’t items be left in the classrooms?  Is that because it would be too difficult for the teachers, so instead, lets offer up the children for sacrifice.

I have to wonder what are the long term effects of carrying these book bags.  The continuous weight has to be a contributing factor to a number of back ailments.  All this progress… we can deposit checks from our cellphones, and cars can sense when the driver is falling asleep, yet nothing has been done to streamline the school system today, to ensure that we have great leaders tomorrow.

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