Oh my!!!!! A school complete with burial chamber, sure brings discipline to
a new level!!!!  I'll have to mention this at the next school board
meeting, you may have the answer to our discipline problems there.  Ruth

At 7:49 AM -0500 12/8/09, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>Dan,
>> Book bag?? We used to worry about what REI deep woods mountaineering
>>backback with hip harness to buy our then third grader as the books got
>>heavier and what they might do to give her sloped shoulders and induced
>>scoliosis.
>>
>> Sounds like our fears were well placed.
>>
>I try to avoid being there when there are kids present... talk about
>distractions worse than i-pods! I'm curious what the general attitude is
>toward having swarms of kids running around while you are trying to be
>in event time?
>
>My impression is that these 'book bags' have handles and wheels akin to
>suitcases and that it is the banging of the wheels and frames on the
>stone that chips them. The steps going down to the burial chambers. So
>there is this conflict of interest between kids running up the steps
>banging their hardware behind them and families going down to visit
>their deceased relatives. Nobody has mentioned ADA access.
>
>As to parents... it would not surprise me if when they look at a school
>they also worry if they can afford an adult accessory to carry around
>the book bags. That sounds cynical but is meant to be a practical
>consideration.
>
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