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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow--no purses?  So they expect you to put a pad or two into a pencil holder in your binder?  This seems to me totally ridiculous for a twelve year old.  And then the girls take their binders into the bathroom stall with them?  That's so disgusting!  
Yikes.  I hate how public schools have become like prisons.  I mean, I went to a middle school where there were girls with knives in their boots, but honestly I would take my chances with the girls with knives rather than have to carry pads around in my trapper keeper!  And what about things like Kleenex or chapstick?
I also wish all the girls didn't wear leggings or athletic wear....they should wear cargo pants to carry the stuff they would put in the backpack!  
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The no backpacks rule is a practical one.  [b]There is not enough room in the halls for kids and backpacks when they are changing classes. [/b] No backpacks allow for more room.  In HS, they are allowed backpacks. (At least that is the way it went with my children)[/quote]That seems like a really stupid rationale.  Middle schoolers are smaller than high schoolers, and, unless middle school hallways are appreciably narrower than high school (which ours are not), it would make more sense to ban backpacks for high schoolers.  And, to get all back-in-my-day-uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow, we managed the halls of an overcroweded, built-in-the-50s middle school just fine with a backpack.  Having to carry all your shit with you in your hands would be more of a pain in the ass, and it wasn't always possible to hit your locker between every class.  Our kid also has an assistive technology accommodation, and I do not want the laptop/iPad in his hands in the hallways rather than secured in a backpack.  That's just a cracked screen waiting to happen, Otterbox or not.[/quote]

I agree it seems like BS.  My junior high and high school back in the day were seriously overcrowded -- like 40 kids per class, lots of classes in portables, using the autobody classroom for math classes overcrowded.  They actually had to double the passing period because the halls were so crowded that it was not uncommon to just stand for several minutes in a total traffic jam.  But they still let us have backpacks.  And I can't think of anyone that got hurt by one.  (And this was in a school with a Molotov cocktail thrown into the principal's office, fairly regular bomb threats called in, lockers lit on fire at least a couple times a year, very occasional stabbings, one fatal shooting, fairly regular ODs in the bathroom.....but no backpack related injuries that I can recall!).  For those of us from sh*t states that never put any money into public education, this overcrowding thing is old hat.
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