What do students think about heavy book bags? Scholastic Choice magazine (August 2002 edition) said that 70% of high school students suffer from back problems due to overweight book bags. Exactly what causes these bags to be overweight? Heavy books that students carry around all day and rarely use.
             Sometimes it seems books are too big for the classes that don't use them frequently. These books just sit in students book bags, adding to the weight and making it unbearable.
             If books were to be purchased as paperback, or in a series of small books that you could switch out as you finish each book, this would reduce weight and make it easier on students. Otherwise, a second set of books should be purchased so that students could take a book home for studying and homework, and leave one in the classroom for class work assignments. This would cut down on weight.Book bags hurt my back after school because they are so heavy, with so many books to carry all day,? said freshmen Vicki McCracken.
             According to http://www.mcg.edu/news/beeper/aug22/backpack.htm,
             Book bags range from about 10 to 30 lbs. daily. The average backpack weighed 13.8 pounds. Students carry about 3 books and binders a day, all these supplies together become very heavy.
             M.D., Amanda Meier, Pediatrician at University of Iowa Hospitals, says: "Every 10 pounds of weight slung on a child's back equals 100 pounds of back pressure.""Having a lot of padding in a shoulder strap eases the pressure placed on both the shoulder and neck," Meier said.
             According to http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Sep/06/il/il01a.html, The weight of most textbooks is an average of 10-15 pounds each. A student should never carry a backpack that is over 10 percent of their body weight. A student who is 100 pounds, should not carry a bag over 10 pounds, which would indicate that many students should not be carrying heavy school books.
             Book bags are not designed for extreme ...