Kids don't carry bookbags anymore. [Archive]

LordJezo

10-21-2005, 04:34 AM

Oh what the heck.

 

Has anyone else noticed this?  Kids dont even carry backpacks anymore.  I was driving yesterday and saw all the little tykes get off the
bus at multiple stops.  Seems that
bookbags these days all have wheels on them. 
The kids drag them everywhere, just like luggage.

 

What ever happened to carrying stuff on your back?

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mikeyboy

10-21-2005, 04:35 AM

It's probably because carrying a bunch of stuff on your back is hell on your back, especially if you're a little kid.

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Doctor Manhattan

10-21-2005, 04:40 AM

That's the thing I hate about communting. People with those rolling bags, and why are people carrying such big bags to and from work everyday? How much shit do you need in both places to be with you at all times?I just carry a laptop bag.I do understand why the kids need them. Those Text Books get REAL heavy and they need them in class and at home. Why don't they break those text books up into smaller volumes? It's not like they don't make enought money on them already, think about the children you text book making scumbags!<a href="http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=202" target="_blank"><img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=skw" border="0" /></a>

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JPMNICK

10-21-2005, 04:44 AM

More people should be like SR71, with a whole desk full of usefull stuff.  

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bobrobot

10-21-2005, 05:06 AM

There were studies done showing that young children were developing severe back problems from enduring the weight of their backpacks. Manufacturers got real smart real fast and threw the wheels on them (the packs, not the kids). When I go to put my kids pack in the trunk of my car, sometimes I am ASTOUNDED at how heavy it is. I'm talking like 30-35 lbs for an elementary school child...ridiculous. Our running joke is that she has the teacher in there...<img title="bp" height="197" alt="bp" src="http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/images/backpack_Sept05.gif" width="195" border="0" />

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Knowledged_one

10-21-2005, 05:25 AM

In baltimore county i drive past the bus stops and it seems as though all the indian kids have backpacks full of books.  The black kids have a binder and a pencil and no books.

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Doctor Manhattan

10-21-2005, 05:38 AM

No White Kids?

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10-21-2005, 05:51 AM

You obviously haven't been to balitmore before

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DJEvelEd

10-21-2005, 07:12 AM

I have a bad back and the idea of twisting around pulling weight behind me is insane. A properly fitted backpack with the weight properly distributed is the way to go.Imagine being at the airport and getting snagged on a curb or a 5 year old kid and pulling your back while twisted around. That hurts just thinking about it.

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mdr55

10-21-2005, 08:11 AM

They're training the kids to become stewrdesses. 

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FUNKMAN

10-21-2005, 10:48 AM

<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"><tr><td> </td><td>Kids don’t carry bookbags anymore. </td></tr></table>then where are they hiding all the weed?

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UtopiaBanished

10-21-2005, 10:52 AM

i was the kid who got scoliosis from the bookbag...4'6" and id say the bookbag was about 3.5' in depth and a liberal 30 lbs. hurray for school and hunched over wretch it has turned me into

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Contra

10-21-2005, 11:31 AM

I still think it's part of the pussification of America

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Knowledged_one

10-21-2005, 11:36 AM

Contra good point, i used to carry a heavy back pack, never wore a bike helmet and played dodge ball in school and i turned out A-OK

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parkway_jesus

10-21-2005, 01:48 PM

Watch your mouth!Yet, I find that I do agree with Contra.

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FUNKMAN

10-21-2005, 02:03 PM

Kids don’t carry bookbags anymore. and with script it seems they're not told to lean the letters to the right anymore they just don't write e'm like that anymore

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10-21-2005, 02:27 PM

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PapaBear

10-21-2005, 09:24 PM

I remember when any kid who dared have a book bag was promptly pummelled. We also didn't have Coke machines in school. Schools today are rediculous!

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MrPink

10-22-2005, 12:03 AM

Those rolling bags are alot worse than bookbags. These kids just dont wanna fuckin carry shit anymore.

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furie

10-22-2005, 10:08 AM

i rarely took books home, and when i did i just carried them.Homework was for study hall. 

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fezident

10-22-2005, 10:40 AM

quote:  the bookbag was about 3.5' in depth and a liberal 30 lbs. Sorry, but there is NO way your bookbag weighed anywhere NEAR 30 pounds. Two bowling balls weigh less than 30 lbs! I mean, how much friggin' homework were you really getting?!!The only way your bookbag weighed that much was if your 3 yr old sibling was hitching a ride in your bag everyday.  If only you taught that lazy brother of yours how to walk, you wouldn't have scoliosis now, would ya? 

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10-22-2005, 01:20 PM

quote:<hr color="cococo" align="left">[quote]quote:  the bookbag was about 3.5' in depth and a liberal 30 lbs. 

You're calling him on the 30 lbs?

How about the three and a half feet in depth?

A Navy seabag only stands about 3 feet high. There's no way a four and a half foot kid was carrying that. Did you mean three and a half inches thick, maybe? I still don't see how that could be anywhere near thirty pounds.

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furie

10-22-2005, 01:29 PM

quote:i was the kid who got scoliosis from the bookbag...4'6" and id say the bookbag was about 3.5' in depth and a liberal 30 lbs. so you were only a foot taller than the bag? you weren't stuffed in a locker; you were just carried home in a book bag 

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WhistlePig

10-22-2005, 02:58 PM

I remember having a bookbag in second grade and one day lugging it to school and back--it was suddenly extra heavy--and not finding until I got home that my brother put 3 big heavy horseshoes in the bottom! The worst thing was our driveway was almost a quarter mile long and uphill. My brother still laughs about it. Bastard.

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Tall_James

10-22-2005, 03:16 PM

Kids dont even carry backpacks anymoreYou were LUCKY that you even HAD bookbags.We were so poor my mother used to staple the books to our clothes so we wouldn't lose them on the 10 mile walk uphill to school each day.

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Tall_James

10-22-2005, 03:17 PM

My brother still laughs about it. Bastard. Sorry, I just chuckled when I read that.  Tell your brother I sez hi.

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Death Metal Moe

10-22-2005, 05:57 PM

I guess I was the dork with the bookbag.  I didn't have enough time in between classes, and I guess I just wasn't good with my time in studyhalls.  I always had a full bookbag.  I usually had most of the shit I needed for before lunch with me until then.  Then I'd have afternoon books with me after lunch.Fucking thing was heavy, and 30 pounds wouldn't surprise me with 3 or 4 hardcover books, workbooks, pens and a possible binder.Fucking gay.

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furie

10-22-2005, 06:53 PM

all i needed was my trapper keeper 

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LiquidCourage

10-24-2005, 05:50 AM

You've got to be kidding me.  Backpacks are getting too heavy? Suck it up! Just like it was said before, more of the pussification of America.

DeltaPin

10-24-2005, 09:03 AM

quote:  quote: Kids dont even carry backpacks anymore  You were LUCKY that you even HAD bookbags.We were so poor my mother used to staple the books to our clothes so we wouldn't lose them on the 10 mile walk uphill to school each day.You forgot the constant blizzard.

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10-24-2005, 09:06 AM

You forgot the constant blizzard.and half the time they were naked    OUCH!

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JustJon

10-24-2005, 09:25 AM

Wehn I was in high school, we all carried those heavy ass backpacks,
and it was the time where everyone was wearing them off one shoulder,
so those fuckers really weighed you down to one side. 

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JerryTaker

10-24-2005, 09:50 AM

I don't get some of this-1. wouldn't carrying a rolling
suitcase/bookbag just be ASKING to have it kicked/flipped over, etc. by
the typical High school douchebags that did that kind of thing?2.
I do get the heavy bookbags, if my locker was across the school from
the lunchroom, I was pretty much fucked, because lunch was the only
time a day you had enough time to go to your locker, fiddle with the
stupid master lock combo dial until it actually worked, and switched
any books, (5 mins between classes, most of which were on a different
floor from your locker? I think not) so anyway, I'd have to carry all
my books, every day. 
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TheMojoPin

10-24-2005, 10:09 AM

Backpacks are fucking heavy if you're stuck away from your locker...mine weighed 20-30 lbs. easy at any given time, and I have no idea why some of you are so flabbergasted by a backpack weighing 30 pounds.  Think of having 3-5 of those textbooks weighing 5-6 pounds in your backpack, plus your notebooks and shit, and anything else you're carrying...30 lbs. was a daily thing.

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FUNKMAN

10-24-2005, 01:01 PM

gotta say though them booksocks make lfe alot easier... keeping a book covered in paper was a pain in the balls. making the right folds, slipping the book cover back in after every time you opened the book, ripping and tearing. i remember using brown paper bags sometimes too.  

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10-24-2005, 01:23 PM

I enjoye the paper covers because that meant I got to draw shit all over them.  Band logos, lyrics, nicknames and stuff my friends and I made fun of all day in class.By the end of the year, you'd look at your covers and chuckle at what you did to it.

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fezident

10-24-2005, 07:09 PM

This is gonna bug me.  I must've had it reeeeally easy growing up.  I don't think I've ever carried 30 pounds of books, at once, in my life.  I mean, is my sense of perception way off?  30 pounds is an assload of books!  I don't think a dictionary weighs 5 pounds.  Does it?  Put 6 bags of sugar into a backpack...THAT is 30lbs.  2 adult-use bowling balls ...THAT is 32 lbs. Everybody conduct a 30-pounds-of-books-experiment and write down your findings.  I'd like a full report on my desk in the morning! 

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Death Metal Moe

10-24-2005, 07:11 PM

Dude, those books were fucking heavy.  Plus, you're not lifting them as a man,  you're lifting them as a child/teen.  You're not as strong then.It was probably more like 20 pounds of books and assorted shit, but I could see how on bad days it would get near 30. 

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PapaBear

10-24-2005, 07:24 PM

At my kid's high school, they made it a little easier. They have day 1 and day 2 classes. He has one class every day for 50 minutes, and the rest of the classes are every other day for around 2 hous each. That way they only have to carry half their books on any given day.Even with that system though, I bet his book bag easily weighs 15-20 pounds. I'll weigh it tommorow after he wakes up.

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grlNIN

10-24-2005, 07:27 PM

Once i hit highschool i dont think i ever carried more than two
books(not including notebooks) around with me for longer than 5 minutes
after the class was let out. I would only use my backpack to bring them
to and from school, which wasnt often since i did most of my homework
during lunch or free periods.The trick was to make sure you had
friends on every floor of the school. This way you could just leave the
textbooks for the closest classes there without having to haul them
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10-24-2005, 08:22 PM

quote: Dude, those books were fucking heavy.  Plus, you're not lifting them as a man,  you're lifting them as a child/teen.  You're not as strong then.It was probably more like 20 pounds of books and assorted shit, but I could see how on bad days it would get near 30. <img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=njdmmoe" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.unhallowed.com/">www.unhallowed.com</a> <a href="http://thebigsexxxy.blogspot.com/">One Big SeXXXy Blog</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deathmetalmoe">Death Metal MySpace</a> DTN Yeah, I agree with Moe...probably closer to 20, but still, like he said, that's on a child, and often you're walking up and down MANY flights of stairs as a kid.  That shit can murder your back if it's on a daily basis. 

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PapaBear

10-25-2005, 03:30 AM

I'm a bit surprised. I just weighed my son's "half day" book bag, and it was 24lbs. That's half a day! I'll weigh the other half tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be much smaller books.

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JustJon

10-25-2005, 09:06 AM

Yeah, I agree with
Moe...probably closer to 20, but still, like he said, that's on a
child, and often you're walking up and down MANY flights of stairs as a
kid.  That shit can murder your back if it's on a daily basis.Dont
forget those long walks to the bus stop, or even just waiting for the
bus, standing there with the bag weighing you down. 

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FUNKMAN

10-25-2005, 12:21 PM

the beer and liquor bottles probably throw a pound or two on...

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Duke

10-25-2005, 01:06 PM

i carry a backpack everyday and i am fine.... but
my high school is like papabears sons  we have an A day and a B
day..it helps out a lot i can honestly say my book bag is lighter now
then when i was back in middle schoo.... 

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UtopiaBanished

10-27-2005, 01:13 PM

the bookbag was about 3.5' in depth and a liberal 30 lbs. You're calling him on the 30 lbs? How about the three and a half feet in depth? A Navy seabag only stands about 3 feet high. There's no way a four and a half foot kid was carrying that. Did you mean three and a half inches thick, maybe? I still don't see how that could be anywhere near thirty pounds. -- "...I don't know about the satellite thing. I'm Howard's biggest fan, but there's no way I'm paying $13 a month to hear him." - Jackie Martling exaggeration guys...exaggerationim not really going to explain the contents of the bag. as obviously it was not 30 lbs. maybe 10...15 on the first day of school. 3.5' in depth. not likely. lets see. if each book was about 1.5 inches thick. and there was one for each major subject...Math, Phonics, Science, Social Studies. weve got 6 inches. then your smaller reading book .75 inches... now were working with 6.75 inches, the plastic blue pencil case 3 inches wide and black and white marble composition book, wide ruled of course .5 = 10.25 inches. now the weight. im not sure how much each book weighs. but we'll say 2 lbs. 8 lbs in text books, plus .25 lbs for my b&w comp. book. (8.25) add a lb for more pencil case, + supplies (4 #2 Yellow Pencils, box of 8 crayons, child-safe scissors, 1 large pink pet eraser, a red p/o/s pencil sharpener, 3 green army men, and a little rubber ball you buy for a quarter. 1 lb) [9.25 lbs] the teenage mutant ninja turtle lunch box, which wouldve held (1) peanut butter sandwich, (1) Juicy Juice, Fruit Punch, (1) bag of 4ct. Ritz Crackers, and (1) napkin, which was never used, becuase thats what pants are for. all of which weighs 2 lbs.so guys i stand corrected, my inflated measurements are now corrected:30 lb bag, actually weighs 9.25 lbs give or take a couple ounces3.5' deep bag, was actually 10.25' deep, give or take a couple centimeters  

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PaulF

10-28-2005, 06:07 PM

As a test the other day, I had my 10 year-old niece empty her school backpack and we managed to get her inside and zip it up most of the way. She is one of the smaller kids in her grade, but it still makes the point. I don't remember carrying that much stuff to and from school on a daily basis, and even then, it was usually in one of those crappy backpacks that were paper thin and would be shredded before the end of the year. I got another school topic that is probably for another thread... why don't I remember ever hearing about peanut allergies when I was a kid? I understand that people have (sometimes fatal) food allergies, but if it wasn't for PB&J, I would have starved long before finishing elementary school. The only thing I can think of is that the teachers didn't want to panic us, so they just told us that those kids "moved away" in the middle of school year.

LiquidCourage

10-29-2005, 12:40 PM

Suck it up, deek.  Walking around for a total of a couple of minutes a day with 20 lbs is shit.  In the Marines we carry 100 lbs packs 15 to 30 miles.  Strap a mortar tube or base plat on one of those kids' backs and then let them complain... Sure, we may bigger, older, and get paid to do it, but it still sucks, and far worse than a backpack.

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