Should Backpacks Be Allowed In Schools

First, allowing students to carry backpacks throughout the school day would save everyone time. Since backpacks have multiple compartments, they allow students to carry learning materials like textbooks, calculators, binders, and writing utensils. Students can use backpacks to transport laptops inside dedicated sleeves. As a result, students would waste less time at their lockers searching through debris for assignments and missing homework. Teachers, too, will welcome backpacks when they no longer have to squander valuable minutes writing locker passes. Less locker stops will reduce hallway congestion, expediting travel between classes. Without wasting the teacher’s precious minutes, students can get a drink of water, go to the bathroom, or take care of personal hygiene needs. . Even custodians will appreciate the practicality of backpacks when they are no longer interrupted from their busy jobs to unjam a muddled locker because of cumbersome coats and binders.

Furthermore, today's backpacks promote students

overall health. Since modern backpacks are ergonomic, meaning that backpacks are designed to fit the body. Most backpacks have padded straps, handles, and a padded backrest. Allowing compatibility and even distribution of the weight throughout the whole back. This helps to prevent lower and upper back injuries later in life. Also, backpacks will allow students to carry everything they need with them at all times like tissues, lip balm, and other personal hygiene products. This will prevent embarrassment and increase privacy. As well as being more convenient for the student and teacher. Students will also be able to carry sport products like snacks, power bars, water, and Gatorade to help athletes stay hydrated. this well even help all students stay focused during the day instead of worrying about food, they will have a snack on them like a granola bar. Allow all student perform at the best of their ability in and out of the classroom day in and out.
Although the administration claims backpacks pose safety hazards in the classroom, this is simply not true.

It is easy and very cost effective for custodians to hang thirty hooks along a wall in every classroom over the summer, or even just have students lie their backpacks along an internal wall in the classroom. this will prevent tripping and will keep the classroom clean and organized. Manny belive that have backpacks will promote the use of contraband of weapons and/or drugs however this is simply not true most of the time when this happens backpacks play little to no role. students that bring weapons or drugs carry them in sweatshirts or jackets. backpacks are just used to get them to and from school which students have the ability to do now. In order to carry a backpack around all day every student will sign a contract giving administration full power over student backpack usage. in the contract students will agree to not bring any

contraband.