Wha?

I don't have children and at this point most of my friend's kids are not in school yet so this bit I heard today caught me completely off guard. When I think of all those years in school there was one item that was with me from the time I walked out of the house to the time I got home. One Item. Shouldn't be too hard.....

My Backpack.

At my job they do a yearly drive to acquire backpacks for the children in our program. Development just ran into a problem...some Florida counties have banned the use of backpacks. Yes, little kids can't bring backpacks to school. For me this is comically asinine. So, of course I immediately Googled this foolishness and sure enough it's pretty widespread, which I fully expected because dumb ideas in the education field seem to spread like the swine flu....wait, bad example. :o) You know what I mean, stupidity is probably the most contagious virus out there.

Under the guise of 'keeping the kids safe" from the rare demented child gun smuggler, and drug dealers backpacks are no longer welcome in the hallways.

Most of you reading are probably close to my age, right? Do you remember how BIG and HEAVY those freakin books were? I know I made frequent trips to my locker because there was no way I was getting a full days worth in that bag and of course there was than cute boy a few lockers down but he just made the trips worth it. I cannot imagine being without that bag. My high school was humongous and with 10 mins between classes and a tardy policy in full effect. I'd have never made it. My happy ass would have been a borderline juvenile delinquent with all my detention hours. And what about these poor high school girls? Purses are also banned so I guess they get to carry their tampons, in full view, to the bathroom.

Can anyone come up with something evil that a backpack can conceal that a binder, pocket, shoe(yes a kid hid a gun in a shoe) etc cannot. yeah, me neither. Bottom line is that if a kid, or anyone else for that matter, wants to do something bad they WILL FIND A WAY.

One of these days the "Nanny State" needs to realize that you can't stop every single bad thing from happening.

You wouldn't go to work without your bag or briefcase or go on vacation with out the essential suitcase....