Too many things for one backpack

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. Now is an excellent time for parents of MS & 9th grade students with heavy backpacks to make them empty it and sort/recycle all the extra papers they are hauling around. Unless you are taking an AP or IB class, most worksheets don’t need to be kept past seeing the grade in the gradebook and the unit test. For AP/IB, papers should be organized in a binder and left at home.

Kids still need to be taught organization, and sorting out backpacks isn’t usually done in school. Periodically I’ll have an 11th grade kid who is missing work come at lunch with a friend to hunt through the backpacks. They’ll spend 30 minutes sorting piles and recycling. It’s a total archaeological dig.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you serious? There are no lockers in HS? Why? I’m a transplant and have never heard of such a thing.

I don’t get this either. What about winter jackets and sports equipment.

They carry it all.

I am laughing thinking of how my kid is going to do this during softball season. She is going to knock people out in the hallway with her sports bag with bats and cleats hanging out of them.

I have a softball players and obviously that is not allowed. They leave it with a nice teacher or in the softball shed or in an upperclassman’s car. There are lots of problems with the locker situation but this is not one of them.

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