I hate to be one of those "I walked 10 miles to school in the snow barefoot" guys, but I'm curious on this whole backpack thing.
In elementary school, we just carried our books and binders under our arms and I walked a mile to school like that.
In Junior High, we carried the books and binders we needed under our arms, and the rest were kept in our lockers, swapped out between periods.
High School was the same as Junior High, though instead of the bus, I rode my bike and my homework stuff went on the bike rack. At least till senior year when I had a car.
Do they not put lockers in schools anymore? For Junior High and higher, I can then understand the need for backpacks. Seems like these days, kids would also have fewer books than I did, and laptops/tablets don't weigh much, at least compared to a 1970s math book.
Otherwise, fine, carry a backpack - it's a lot easier than carrying books under your arm, but as mentioned above, at what point did school kids get privacy? I remember any teacher at any time for any reason could open my locker at school if they wanted to. At least with a clear backpack, the bullies aren't knocking the three books and a binder you're carrying under your arm onto the ground every other day. Certainly there can be some very personal privacy issues - feminine products, meds, etc. They likely need to come up with a solution to that, or else just leave both guns and backpacks alone.
Also, yeah, this Hogg kid suddenly is concerned with rights when a restriction affects him? He has become the poster boy for the progressive agenda of "We're taking your rights, don't touch ours!" His freakin' 15 minutes expired like two weeks ago. I can only imagine the kind of crap that will come out of this weekend.
