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Students are forced to carry unbelievably heavy loads to and from school today for a number of reasons. Pediatricians are seeing this cause numerous health problems including strained backs and necks in growing children. This is espeically true for students that are in junior high and high schools and is not uncommon to see teenagers lugging a bag that is 30 pounds or more on their backs the whole day in school. This will talk about why this is happening and what you can do to alleviate the problem like using a folding cart or wheeled cart backpack or working with the school districts to change the lugging around of heavy academic books.

One of the reasons students are having to carry around all of their books and notebooks today is that newly built schools are not installing lockers for their students. This is the situation in the Douglas County school district south of Denver where the schools are all fairly new. They did not build lockers in these new buildings to eliminate or reduce places where students could hide things like drugs or weapons on school property. This then, results in the kids having to carry their whole days worth of books as well as their coats with them all day long.

Some schools do provide lockers for their students but the amount of time in between classes is usually too quick to be able to go to your locker and get to your class in time to make good use of the locker. Some schools, such as the Mariemont school district outside of Cincinnati now buy an extra set of text books for every student to keep at home and the other books are in the classroom. This eliminates the need to carry those text books to and from school for the kids, helping to lower the weight in their bags.

One solution to get rid of the heavy text books altogether would be to switch to online books and content which many teachers across the country are already implementing. Not only does this reduce the need to carry the heavy books around every day but it can also save the school districts money in having to purchase them for the students. Many school districts use them as a supplement to the text books but haven’t completely switched to the electronic teaching tools all together.

If there is no other choice to lower the amount of books that your teenager has to carry all day long in school, then perhaps the way they transport their things can change. Many companies that make book bags or back packs now are making ones that have wheels for kids to pull rather than put on their backs. This is highly recommended by physicians if the bags weigh more than 20 pounds. These doctors are contributing the increase in back problems as well as a higher occurrence of scoliosis to these heavy bags that students are having to carry all day long , 5 days a week.

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