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Every year kids are making trips to the doctor with complaints of back and or neck pain due to the weight of their backpacks. Every year these kids are treated in hospitals for backpack related injuries. Kids who are using new technology instead of five pound textbooks, are scoring higher on standardized tests and are more focused. The use of textbooks in school should be replaced by the use of technological devices to reduce backpack related injuries, and promote higher test results.
In the school year of 2011-12, over 13,700 US students aged 5 to 18 had to be treated in hospitals due to backpack related injuries (ProCon.org). These students were treated for contusions, sprains, fractures, and strains to the shoulders and back. The Archives of Disease in Childhood discovered that the average weight of a student’s backpack is about 15.4 pounds, while a tablet weighs about 1.25 pounds. Kids ages 5-18 should not be having to face problems that usually should not occur until later in life. The weight these textbooks are putting on students is too much, and are leading to problems...

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