Heavy school backpacks!

[ACooper]

I know that I went to school at one time in my life too, but I SWEAR I don't remember having such heavy back packs! I don't remember bringing so many books home all the time........I don't know, perhaps I just blocked it out!

I just helped my 8 & 11 year old get ready for the bus and MAN they put on the back packs and staggered a step backwards LITTERALLY! Then I watched them go out and get on the bus and it was NOT easy to get up the bus steps packing all the extra weight!

And THIS is a monday morning when there wasn't much if ANY homework on friday.

*sigh* It's hard being a kid! LOL

 

[HoundedByHounds]

soon all textbooks will be left at school or be on laptops...problem solved!
Many schools here have the books in two sets...one for home and one for school....there need never be transport unless you lose one! That's also a great idea.

I sure lugged a ton of books as a HS'er

 

[ACooper]

Oh my HS'er have books on CD! They get a text book in the classroom and a CD to bring home when that class starts...........THEY don't have to bring many books home at all!

It's the little guys that have the problem! I would like them to have CD's too, I mean does the school think they can't operate a computer? I think you should have the option! I would GLADLY pay extra to have them be able to do that.

 

[HoundedByHounds]

My kiddo's learning Keyboarding right now in first grade on an Apple so being that they are teaching them that...lol. You are right...they could do the CD thing for younger ages as well...perhaps it's more a worry about losing them with younger kids...who knows!

 

[houndlove]

Oh I definitely remember heavy backpacks from high school and middle school! Especially high school. At one point someone brought in a scale from home so we could all weigh them and it was pretty astounding. And back then they didnt have the nice rolly backpacks, neither!

 

[HoundedByHounds]

yeah they say the rolly one's actually hurt kids because they overload them even more....then get to school where many schools have a "no rolling" policy and THEN they have to lug them!

My kiddo's elem. has a no rolling in halls/indoors because of noise and tripping hazards.

 

[ACooper]

Yep, we can't have "Rolley packs" at ANY of our schools.........system wide policy.

 

[GipsyQueen]

I don't have that problem... IF I have a text book its thin. We write our own text books... the Only ones I have now are rather small. I do, however, remeber the ones from 1st - 4th grade... I had a rolly backpack though so it wasn't to bad.

 

[~Jessie~]

The only time that I had a heavy backpack was when I was in middle school, and towards the end of high school. I've always been really little, so carrying my backpack was terrible.

 

[skittledoo]

I had heavy books all throughout junior high and highschool. It sucked... I remember always having constant back and shoulder pain.

 

[LoveMyKees]

I'm in highschool, and my bag weighs a ton. In addition to all of the three subject notebooks I have to carry around, I have my Geometry book and my GIGANTIC biology book. Its insane My spanish book isn't too bad, thats the thinnest out of my four text books. The last one is Literature and I believe its tied with Biology as the biggest.

 

[Lilavati]

Try law school. There were days my pack weighted 50+lbs . . . I'll never forget slipping on the ice walking up to the law school, falling, and getting whacked in the back of the head with International Law, Secured transations, national security law, Contracts 2 and god knows what else. I think I blacked out for a few minutes.

 

[ACooper]

Lilavati..........I am so sorry, but I have to tell you that your post made me giggle!

Hehehe, I am glad you didn't suffer any lasting damage, but the visual you painted was FUNNY!

 

[Miss Jack]

In September my Daughter starts Upper School (we have primary school 5-11 yrs and Upper 11-16 or 18 if you stay on to 6th form)

She will be 11 in July but at the moment she's wearing 8-9 yr clothes and weighs 48lb's (I do feed her honest!!) If she's given a place at the school we've chosen it's a 20 min walk so she's definitely going to need a bag with wheels unless she manages to grow a foot taller in 9 months.

 

[iwantmypup]

Hi,

Oh gosh I know. We carry wayyy to much heavy..heavy books.
I'm in Middle School, btw.

Oh and I think we are allowed to have the backpacks with wheels. BUT I really don't want to carry that up stairs. :-/

-Ali

 

[Beanie]

They still hadn't passed the "no rolling bags" rule when I was in high school but I wish they had. People would drag them five feet behind them, not paying any attention, and be all in the way... x____x
We had five minutes between classes, and it was technically do-able to go from the first floor, up to your locker on the third, and then back down to the first floor for class again... but that was if everything was perfect and nobody got in your way, and if your locker actually opened the first time... so almost everybody just lugged around ALL of their books all day.

I think it's kind of cool that they have textbooks on CDs now. I bet that's MUCH cheaper for the schools, too!

 

[PoodleMommy]

reading through this thread... I was thinking "try law school" but Lilavati beat me to it. :lol-sign:

I havent used a backpack since middle school but I had to finally give in because so much weight on one arm was way too much.

 

[GlassOnion]

My backpacks weren't too bad. I remember one time though that I had to bring up biology, geometry, government, and history all at the same time. My back pack was bulging, I couldn't even fit my binder in there so had to carry it in my left hand while I was lugging my French Horn in my right hand. THAT was an ordeal.

But I would much prefer that than to have my book on a CD. That's a PIA. I hate having to look at my computer just to do my homework. I like to do my homework where ever I want, especially if it's sunny outside.

 

[ACooper]

That's what laptops are for GO!

 

[MisssAshby]

I wish they would make all college textbooks on CD.

It's a PITA when you have 14 books for one class!