Schools that don't allow backpacks? Huh?

sunnyflorida
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:56:09 +0000

Our middle schools had the no backpack thing. And girls were limited to size of purses. Apparently it was about contraband. No lockers either. The school had a “classroom” set of books, so no books were to come to and from class. You had a book at school for every class you took, and were to keep a set at home. So al you needed was your notebook. It was often a zip notebook with a pencil pouch so you could carry everything you needed easily.

Problem was, if you had after school activities at another location, you could not bring your books to school to have available that day for another location other than home. And divorced families had to deal with whose got what books.

Funny, the high school gave them lockers and let them carry backpacks.