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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, they don't have textbooks, so what's the problem? Is that still too heavy?[/quote]

Yes, it is too heavy, especially for climbing in and out of the school bus. Current pediatric recommendation is for kids to carry not more than 10-15% of their body weight. There are many K-3 kids who weigh 40-60 lb, so you can do the math. When you account for backpacks, water bottles, snack, lunch boxes there isn’t room to add something that weighs another 5 lbs.

And, we are not talking about older students, but young elementary.[/quote]

K-2 weren’t bringing them home to begin with, so you can up your weight limits.[/quote]

I am not sure what you mean by you can increase weight limit. The 10-15% carrying weight is pediatric recommendation for all developing kids, including third graders. Or, are you making an assumption that all third graders are more than 60lbs? Mine is not.

To better explain the issue, imagine if on top what you need to bring to work every day you were asked to pack everything up into a backpack, then add 15 lb brick inside (I am using 15lb as 10-15% of about average weight of an adult person) and climb up and down bus stairs that are at least 50% taller than the existing steps in buildings (that’s how they feel for young kids). Fun and doable for an entire school year?

Also, my first grader was required to carry laptop every day during the peak of Covid.[/quote]

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