Suggest some measures to reduce the burden of heavy schoolbags.

Suggest some measures to reduce the burden of heavy schoolbags.

With the increasing pressure of studies on the kids, their school bags are also getting heavier year after year. There are almost about 15 – 20 books that a child has to carry daily. Not only does the child have to carry books, but also has to take a water bottle, lunch boxes making it all the more heavier. With the burden of heavy bags, at a very young age they are already suffering from back, shoulder and neck pains. Recently in Mysore, people thought of initiating some initiatives to reduce the burden of school bags. Let’s us also see some initiatives that can be taken to reduce the weight of the school bags.

Most of the books that are used in school are required on a daily basis, so the school or the subject teacher can ask the children to leave that particular book in the school, and can carry only those books which are not required daily. There are numerous schools opened in Maharashtra and Gujarat, where right from the first day of admission, the children is not allowed to carry even a single book back home. It is a morning to evening school, where in the first half teachers teach and then everyday there is an extra – curricular activity that takes place and lastly, the teachers make the students do their homework and are then sent home. This is also a good way to reduce the burden of backpack from the children’s shoulder. Now – a days it has been observed that the school bags are made with a trolley attached so that they do not have to put the bag on their shoulder rather they can drag it around in the school, although these kinds of bags are on an expensive side but parents prefer to spend on this rather than seeing the child in pain forever.

The schools can provide private locker to each child, where they can keep their books which they require on a daily basis and carry only those 1 – 2 books which are new subjects daily. It is the technology age, so instead of teaching through books, the lessons can be taught through Power Point Presentations and the notes are given to them in a pen drive, this will also help in reducing the load of the students. The students shall be allowed to carry their diary home on a daily basis to enable the parents to keep a track of their child. Also for higher classes, the teachers can give home-work on a worksheet or a full – scape paper and the child can take only that particular textbook to home, the number of home assignments should not be more than 2 – 3 assignments.

The above mentioned ways can be applied and tested to see if these ways are hampering the child’s education. It is extremely necessary to reduce the weight of backpacks of children as they are suffering from permanent back, shoulder and neck pain because of the weights, additionally since their body bones and muscles are yet in a developing condition, the weights can hamper their growth and shape permanently.