Am I the only one? New Backpacks for school

[aprilgail2]

I really wish the schools would consider their safety and allow the wheeled backpacks, though. I worry about the weight/back problem thing.....I am not sure it is reasonable to expect them to use both straps when they are off and on so frequently.

The kids in our schools are allowed to use the ones with wheels, my dauhgter had one in first grade. It was more of a pain than anything though, takin the handle out to pull it, pushing it in and geting it on the back when they were going on the bus or up the stairs....but they are allowed here.

 

[rcraw45425]

The kids in our schools are allowed to use the ones with wheels, my dauhgter had one in first grade. It was more of a pain than anything though, takin the handle out to pull it, pushing it in and geting it on the back when they were going on the bus or up the stairs....but they are allowed here.

Our schools have banned them as well, for the space issue as well as rolling over someone's feet with the dang things. Personally I hate them, as do most teachers I talk to.

 

[daisyduck123]

Online only I think. We shop at the one in Columbia, MD too and I never saw any on sale there. I bet they had them in the outlets though, have you ever been to the one that is just over the Bay Bridge? I've got some good deals on outerwear in there, and have seen backpacks and other luggage in there for considerably less than what you'd pay in the Columbia store.

I just looked at my records, it was October 23 that I bought the backpacks last year. Hopefully this year they will repeat the sale. If I see it on one of the deal sites I go to I'll be sure to post about it.

Ok thanks!

I will check online next month!
I do go past the one over the Bay Bridge ocassionally (just came back from O.C. yesterday).

 

[daisyduck123]

Our schools have banned them as well, for the space issue as well as rolling over someone's feet with the dang things. Personally I hate them, as do most teachers I talk to.

I'm one of the teachers that can't stand them...they're dangerous, IMO.
Just as in WDW, anything that you pull, should not be allowed in the crowded hallways of a school.

 

[minijeanie]

Be thankful you can use backpacks

after the VA tech incident this past year, our high school won't allow them

How the heck these kids can carry all their notebooks/books/folders is beyond me

can't wait to see what errupts tomorrow when school starts

 

[golfgal]

When the twins were in K-1st grade they got new backpacks because they wanted the character ones and they only last a year anyway. In 2nd grade they wanted 'real' backpacks. They used those up until last year (6th grade). DS15 got a backpack in 3rd grade and then just now this year for 10th grade since the zipper on his old one broke.

 

[JunieJay]

Be thankful you can use backpacks

after the VA tech incident this past year, our high school won't allow them

How the heck these kids can carry all their notebooks/books/folders is beyond me

can't wait to see what errupts tomorrow when school starts

Yikes, they won't allow them to bring them to school, or they won't allow them to bring them to class?

Our middle school has never allowed the kids to bring the backpacks from class to class. They can bring them to school, but they have to put them in their lockers in the morning where they stay until they leave. Makes it VERY difficult for my son...organization has never been his strong suit. I can't even imagine him having to lug all the stuff with him TO and FROM school.

 

[cccm]

This is the first year that I am not buying a new backpack. DD is going into 4th grade. She killed her backpack from last year at camp this summer. She actually killed five outfits, three pairs of shoes, two swimsuits and one backpack.

I washed it and it seems okay. I told her no new backpack this year, she can reuse it. I was going to buy a new lunchbox but forgot. I'll order it today and she can manage three days this week with her old.

Being home a week from Disney before starting school, we are behind on many areas including back to school clothes, shoes, supplies.

 

[golfgal]

Be thankful you can use backpacks

after the VA tech incident this past year, our high school won't allow them

How the heck these kids can carry all their notebooks/books/folders is beyond me

can't wait to see what errupts tomorrow when school starts

Hopefully they can take them to/from school. I know DS15 would lose everything if he wasn't able to use a backpack. The high school actually encourages kids to bring their backpacks to/from classes. The school is big and spread out so it helps kids move from class to class faster. For DS, he never used his locker last year so and the backpack helps him stay organized.

 

[kaw1218]

Also, for anyone contemplating buying an LL Bean backpack, my suggestion is to wait until mid October if you can. They had a killer sale on backpacks in October 2006, most were at least 50 percent off and some close to 70 percent off. I got a few to have on hand, and a couple which I sold on ebay. We carry backpacks a lot for travel, and DH uses them because he rides a motorcycle to and from work pretty often, so we can never really have too many.

THANK YOU!!!!! Since I won't need any until next year that would be perfect!!!

 

[kaw1218]

Be thankful you can use backpacks

after the VA tech incident this past year, our high school won't allow them

How the heck these kids can carry all their notebooks/books/folders is beyond me

can't wait to see what errupts tomorrow when school starts

Are they allowed the Clear ones???

 

[slo]

I didn't vote "yes you are the only one" because I don't think you are the only one. I did vote "other" because I do choose to buy a new one for my DD every year. She has a very hard time with school, and this is an easy way to get her pumped up about going back. Plus, her other backpacks are Lizzy McQuire, and that's now a thing of the past

 

[believe]

If they are still in good shape my girls will reuse them knowing that by doing that if something happens to them they can get a new one mid-year.

 

[JunieJay]

Hopefully they can take them to/from school. I know DS15 would lose everything if he wasn't able to use a backpack. The high school actually encourages kids to bring their backpacks to/from classes. The school is big and spread out so it helps kids move from class to class faster. For DS, he never used his locker last year so and the backpack helps him stay organized.

I really find it appalling that our schools don't allow the kids to carry them class to class. I told the teacher as much last year when DS forgot assignments....to kids who aren't organized by nature, its very difficult to go back and forth to a locker all day. He really had such a difficult transition in 6th grade, and most of it I attribute to those stupid backpack rules. They don't allow girls to carry purses, either.

 

[bevtoy]

I make mine reuse back packs, crayons, glue, paint,notebooks every year.

 

[JunieJay]

I make mine reuse back packs, crayons, glue, paint,notebooks every year.

We reuse everyting we don't use from the previous year as well. My boys have never even questioned it.

 

[Becky2005]

I really find it appalling that our schools don't allow the kids to carry them class to class. I told the teacher as much last year when DS forgot assignments....to kids who aren't organized by nature, its very difficult to go back and forth to a locker all day. He really had such a difficult transition in 6th grade, and most of it I attribute to those stupid backpack rules. They don't allow girls to carry purses, either.

I'm really confused by this just because even when I was in Junior High, backpacks weren't allowed to be brought from class to class. That was back when our Junior High was 3 floors & it was quite possible you could have your locker on the 3rd floor and class on the 1st floor & you did have to run in-between each class to your locker to get books & things. The only time we had our purses were at lunchtime otherwise they were in the lockers too.

Let's see I was in Junior High way back when -- It was the election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter happened when I was there because we did a mock election -- so whatever year that was -- I don't feel like calculating it out.

My DD's Middle School does team centers -- they have it *so* easy -- they have lockers in one set and around that group of lockers are their core subjects in a U type thing. The *only* time she leaves her little area is gym, lunch & choir. They aren't allowed to bring backpacks to classes either.

We never were allowed to carry our backpacks to classes in High School either. So, at least around here, this is not a new concept of taking your backpack to school & putting it in your locker for the day (I don't remember carrying my purse around school either even in HS -- it was in the locker too).

That's how it's always been, I don't know when it changed to people carrying backpacks to class (or if it ever did around here) and then went back to them having to be in their lockers.

 

[va32h]

My kids reuse their backpacks year after year....although they do have 2 or 3 apiece (my husband brought them camoflauge backpacks from his last tour of the Middle East and they each got a free one when we stayed at a Doubletree hotel this summer) so I guess they could rotate if they wanted to.

They are pretty cheap ones - $20 at Walmart or Target, but they've lasted for ages. Of course, our school does not actually allow the children to take their textbooks home, so they don't experience as much wear and tear. Certainly not the way I remember school -- hauling enormous books back and forth each day!

DD is in middle school and they can't take backpacks to class either. But each grade has their lockers and classrooms in the same general area, so it's not as if she has to sprint back and forth across the campus to get her things.

 

[JunieJay]

I'm really confused by this just because even when I was in Junior High, backpacks weren't allowed to be brought from class to class. That was back when our Junior High was 3 floors & it was quite possible you could have your locker on the 3rd floor and class on the 1st floor & you did have to run in-between each class to your locker to get books & things. The only time we had our purses were at lunchtime otherwise they were in the lockers too.

Let's see I was in Junior High way back when -- It was the election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter happened when I was there because we did a mock election -- so whatever year that was -- I don't feel like calculating it out.

My DD's Middle School does team centers -- they have it *so* easy -- they have lockers in one set and around that group of lockers are their core subjects in a U type thing. The *only* time she leaves her little area is gym, lunch & choir. They aren't allowed to bring backpacks to classes either.

We never were allowed to carry our backpacks to classes in High School either. So, at least around here, this is not a new concept of taking your backpack to school & putting it in your locker for the day (I don't remember carrying my purse around school either even in HS -- it was in the locker too).

That's how it's always been, I don't know when it changed to people carrying backpacks to class (or if it ever did around here) and then went back to them having to be in their lockers.

I'm a bit older than you, as I was a senior in high school for that election. We carried backpacks though high school. I didn't go to middle school or junior high school as I went to Catholic school K-8. We carried some sort of book pack no doubt, and I definately carried a purse.

I guess I don't see the big deal of allowing the kid to carry a bag to help him/her organize. As far as I know, this is a fairly new rule to this area. My neighbor was complaining about the same thing. One of the big problems with the locker is they only get a very short period of time to go from one class to the other, and the school is pretty big. They really don't have time to access their locker between classes, so the kid is left to trying to carry it around all day.

 

[Ticket Man]

I had to replace my backpack at the beginning of 10th grade (1999), I still have the same backpack and I'm in my 2nd year of grad school. It was on clearance at Gap for $10.