Oh my god that would be annoying. I carry around my text books and writing books for all of my subjects as well as a pencil case and water bottle and my lunch. I wouldn't be able to without a bag. My mum always says I'll break my back because it's to heavy. We do have lockers but they're always to far away from classes to get to between lessons and they're tiny. I can't imagine having to carry everything.

After Columbine my high school banned any "non transparent" bags. That lasted all of a semester. My son (12) is in middle school and lasts year his locker was on the opposite side of the building from his classes and couldn't carry a backpack, so he carried his books in a plastic bin. It was the only way he could carry all of his books and avoid getting in trouble for being late to his classes for going to his locker to swap out books.

Yeah I'm a student who has 12 new textbooks every single year to pile through (plus notebooks & laptop & binders of completed work). They're all over 800 pages and I certainly wouldn't be carrying them in my arms!

Would work awesomly in my country where we don't have lockers and are expected to carry a combo of book+work book+notebook for all of our classes of which we have 8 + extracurriculars per day....

There was a similar story with a school in the UK. They took down the actual WALL to the girls bathroom, making stalls, sinks etc visible to the entire student body. They justified it as being for 'safety' reasons, if I recall correctly. It was St. Mary's College if you wanted to read up on it.

i guess it's america so…. guns

Crazy...

Can't be an American school, because they would go bust on legal claims for taking away the last line of defense, bulletproof schoolbags, from their pupils....

Where I went to high school was like this and we had to buy drawstring backpacks from the school! They were basically useless because books don't fit in it. It was clearly just a way for the school to make money... I think that most people had to go to their locker to grab books for the next class when you only have a 5 minute break!

That's what we did when I was in school. Never had any kind of book bag or backpack.

The health reason might be to body build....big arms carrying around a few text books.

Smacking someone with a microwave whilst turned on will give them radiation poisoning (comedic license), but right right, let’s hit them with the unstuffed pillowcase with straps

It's to prevent students from bringing in weapons.

My school did that. Stupidest thing ever. Everyone was always late because we had to switch books every period. They then said "switch at lunch". We had too many books to carry so we just continued being late. Let's just say my teachers were very frustrated and so was everyone else except for the administrators

It's so that students can't conceal weapons or anything harmful.

We all did that as a normal thing back in the day. It wont kill you, but you need to plan your classes and what books are in your locker and what you carry. Going to be a test to see if you can think on your own or just whine like a little baby. Again, >>>>>> IT WON,T KILL YOU!!!!

In my school it is the complete opposite. Before we had to carry all our books. Now, since we can't go to pur lockers as much because of COVID, we can carry our books in our bookbag. This is very funny though. Although, he could have brought a box instead of a microwave.

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i kinda see why the school would ban bags. heavy backpacks are horrible on the human frame. Perhaps a better solution would be to render the books into e-text and put it on a kindle or kindle-like device

Who said it was USA? Prejudiced much?

This story is from the UK

You have no idea