Are you against small kids carrying huge school bags?

ya surely and strongly against it. good discussion friend. why the teachers and the school force the small kids to carry huge bags of heavy weight? actually the parents also support it silently, because they belive that its needed for the good education of their children, but i don think its necessary. and now its the time for the government to take some action against it. a good teacher may not need text book to teach, so it can be removed, and i belive that single notebook can be used for more than one subjects, but the teachers should allow it.the society should change.

In the real world where all are getting small from mobile phone to laptops, I can't figure it out that school children are given more books for them to carry... mayb e in the very near future... pupils will just carry their notebooks (laptop) and plug in all the info their teacher says..

Hi, xorticanz. I don't like to send my kids to school wearing huge back packs. I made sure that I sent my four year old to school in a small back pack this year. She is in preschool. I don't want her wearing a back pack that will drag down on her lower back. My son has a back pack that fits his size. I don't want them to have to wear anything larger on their backs.

I blame it on the education authorities. They just lugged the students with books. I think they must have really bad intentions. Firstly, the break the backs of the students and secondly, that they must be making money out of selling books. Either way, something is fishy with these uncouth bureaucrats.

it is such a shame to see small children with bookbags bigger than they are. Over a period of time they can be doing severe damage to their backs. You shouldn't carry anuything more than your back can support comfortably. it will save health issues in the future.

hello! Yes,yes,yes! For 3 times LOL! My daughter has a very huge schoolbag and she needs to go to school with my car(even school isn't so far...only 10 minutes walking, without cross the street).But when I see her trying to move her school bag,i can't let her walking.She has many books for many hours(math,english,french,hystory,geografy,romanian language-in a single day)and many notebooks too. Isn't easy for a small kids(even for me lol).I don't know how,but teachers must find a solution for this problem!Maybe 1 book for 2 kids in classroom ha ha ha! Have a nice day and happy lotting!

Yes, I'm against heavy school bags too. I know how hard it was when I had to walk a total of 2 kms each way with a heavy bag when I went to school! To counter this, my children's school had lockers at school. They could keep their books and stuff in it instead of carrying it each day. But that wasn't really much help because depending on the homework or what the child wanted to study, they needed to bring the books back home each day. they tried to work the homework thing by having a timetable so that the student had only homework on one subject a day...but as they reached the end of primary school, that wasn't practical either. We are now homeschooling the kids...and no bags...no luggage! Am I relieved!!

In the Philippines this is a problem. It is rare to find schools, especially public schools, with lockers where children can leave some of their stuff. If they had lockers, then they would only need to take home what they would need for homework. I worked in a pre-school in the past and the kindergarteners had loads of books that most of them used trolley bags. However, even pulling and maneuvering the trolley bag is a still quite a task for a little kid.

We only had three minutes between classes to get from one class to the other before we would be marked late for class. Some teachers would lock the door as soon as the three minutes was up and then the student had to go to the office and missed class. I hated teachers like that. In the three minutes we didnt have enough time to go back to our lockers so we had to carry all our books and notebooks with us that we needed for the day. It was horrible. The bookbags were so heavy. I remember the little seventh graders looking like they were going mountain climbing when they went down the hall loaded down with so many books in their bookbags. Then sometimes you had to carry gym clothes and a lunch in your bookbag making it all that much heavier. Wow just thinking about all this I am so glad that I dont have to do that anymore lol.

I think textbooks should just be lighter and cheaper. I don't approve of schools going into an all-techno approach to education. If students forget how to read books, then they just plain forget how to learn and comprehend. Admit it, switching to technology makes us human beings super lazy. As much as we've complained about heavy books... they really haven't done any long-term damage to students.

Hello xorti, I believe this is also happening in the Philippines. FOr one, I experienced it myself during my High-school and Elementary days.it was hard, back then "strolls" were popular so that we could have time to bring it to the class room a lot more faster. i believe that's why they were lockers too. but they're a bit expensive to me.

When I was a school teacher, I had so many students who are carrying very hige bags. The main reason for it is that they bring all their books for the whole day when they can actually leave them at home. Sometimes even if parents are already telling the kids not to bring everything to school, they still do.

hi xorticanz, sometimes when I see kids with heavy backpacks on their thin little shoulders, I feel kinda sad for them. It seems that they are saddled with really serious education even at this young age. What can make a backpack so heavy, thick books or a whole series of book for one subject? The parents have resorted to buying some trolley bags as school bags for some of these students ...... I wonder if the schools can economise on what books are to be brought to school or not.

Here in the U.S. some parents have resorted to backpacks on wheels that the child drags around. I personally think that is going a little overboard. My son does have a large backpack and we have adjusted it to him. He is in special education classes but he does get homework. The only time so far his backpack was overfilled is when he needed to take his school supplies in. That day we had him carry it instead of putting it on his back because he could barely walk.

I am definitely against this. I really feel pity for those kids carrying along a very heavy bag on their backs despite their very small built. I hope that somehow the school could find a way to solve this problem. My son is in Grade 1. He has so many books and notebooks needed for his subject. The good thing is that most of the books are left at school in their respective cabinets and are only brought when there are assignments to exams to study. However, the notebooks are to be brought everyday. Well, I bought him a bag that can be rolled over so that he wont be putting it on his back. All he has to do, is push or pull it. At least it lessens the stress.

I strongly against young children lugging with difficulty their school bags. These bags are sometimes heavier than the children themselves! Why can't the teachers tell the children which book to bring instead of bringing three books of Mathematics and three books of English and three books of Geography. Three books of three subjects instead of nine books of three subjects. What a reduction! The faults lie not in the children but in the teachers.

Hiya xorti, I used to have to carry load of heavy books backwards and forwards to School also you were not allowed to keep them in Drawers or in your Desks at School. Child´s back is the one that suffers the most untold damage can be done if the Child has to carry so many heavy things on their Backs. So those school bags with wheels on are really a good thing too but they should not be too overloaded either because with having to use their arm pulling the bag from behind also causes stress on the arm and shoulder. Speaking from experience here.

who is not? it's pure punishment to have a kid, small and frail at that, carry a big bag, which even a full-grown and well-built adult will surely grunt to lift and carry about... of course, trolley bags are a big help, but most of the time, it's the backpack and shoulder bag, which strains a child's shoulders and later on, later in his/her life, would surely show... what should be done is to cut the load with a good system that will alternately use the books and materials a child has to carry to school... don't you think?

i dont think so about that if we becarefully.

I am completely agree with you.. I am against this too. School should have provide some locker system so students can put their regular books in it.. So they don't have to carry heavier bags everyday. This system should be change.