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11 Feb 2023 14:32

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Why schools not insist on less weighing school bags for children?

I am compelled to raise this issue that I have seen many children in the primary school including my grandkid studying 1st standard carrying heavy school bag. I recently happened to visit my grandkids' school to drop them in an auto. I had been exhausted just watching the kids in the primary section having their heavy backpacks along with lunch bags and stepping up the staircase, invariably escalated more burden on the young shoulders.

Based on the research, a child or an adult is supposed to carry bags only 10-15% of the body weight. Carrying heavy school bags would affect the kids' backbone, limiting their growth and overall worst impact on their health. I don't know why the schools are not insisting on less weighing school bags at least for primary classes. They could provide locker/drawer facilities to keep the day-to-day books and notebooks avoiding overload of the school bags especially for pupils below 10 years. The private schools have been collecting exorbitant fees, but not to consider minimizing the weight borne by the small pupils. This is crucial that the government through the respective educational boards need to formulate legal strategies to overcome this issue.

#769490

11 Feb 2023 17:07

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The author has raised a post which is definitely more valuable and needs to be followed while making school - bags. The lighter weight of the bag would enable the students for more comforts while going to schools since the loads on their backs would not cause back sprain which could be seen in heavyweight of bags. Such lighter weight bags are ideal for the kids reading upto class four and later with their growth, they can handle the weight of the bags.
There are some public schools in the areas of Bengaluru where the authorities demand a set of books to be kept in the almirahs of schools for its subsequent use in the class - rooms in the teaching session of students. Hope such implementation would ease the process of their studies in schools.

#769493

11 Feb 2023 18:28

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That is very correct. Too much load on their shoulders will definitely have a say on their growth and health, But the so called academicians who design the syllabus and curriculum to students should think about this issue. When I was in my primary school I used to carry one slate and one or two books. But these days we see many books even for the first standard student also. This should change. As mentioned by the author, the schools can consider providing some lockers to the students so that their books can be kept in that and they can carry the books that are required for that night in the house.

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#769502

12 Feb 2023 09:12

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Parents should only buy lighter bags from the market so that the children can put their study related things in that. Apart from that there are books and copybooks and lunch packs which make the bag bulky and heavy. So, as some other members have also suggested, it makes sense to keep some books in the school itself and rotate them to home as per the requirement of homework.
Another aspect is digital books which a child can keep in one's tablet or mobile storage. That might help to a great degree.

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#769505

12 Feb 2023 11:44

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Apart from the above suggestions and as specified by Mr. N.V.Srinivasa Rao, I am of a thought that the curriculum and syllabus needs to be revised to reduce the burden. My granddaughter in the 1st standard (ICSE board) has to carry the books English (including grammar and literature), language (Tamil), EVS (containing math, science, and environmental studies, three in one) and fourth one being any of the book such as computer science, third language, GK, cursive writing/handwriting) almost daily. In addition to these, CW notebooks, HW notebook, diary are in the list. I really dislike this way of books-oriented syllabi. This is the high time the academicians and parents deal this issue more seriously, I believe.

Why schools not insist on less weighing school bags for children?

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