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Heavy Textbooks Are Weighing Down the Backpacks and Straining the Students

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by Emma Lochner

Textbooks are the back breaking, unneeded object that comes along with school. Ever since middle school, students have been forced to carry large textbooks, most having to carry more than others. At least in middle school, there was the enforcement of having a locker to hold such deadly utensils. Here at high school, it’s a different story.

Senior Rachel Canzoneri said, “I don’t really have a problem with textbooks. I think they’re pretty intensive. But a lot of them are really outrageous and heavy.”

Students are allowed to get a locker, to ask for one and use it daily. Somehow, over the years, it has developed into a sort of taboo. There is an unwritten rule amongst the students to not use a locker, to tough it out and just carry your books. If you are lucky of course, then maybe you get to keep them at home.

Senior Michael Sniezek said “Textbooks are pointless to me. I do not learn by reading the book, and most of the teachers don’t even use them.”

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It is typical to see students carrying textbook(s) in their arms instead of in their bags. This could result in a bruise on the arm from the mere weight of the object, which sounds crazy, but has happened to students.

Coming in different sizes is a hardship as well. Going from a tiny textbook first semester to the biggest textbook you have ever seen in second, is scary. Sadly, it gets worse in college. At least in high school you only have a maximum of four classes a semester.

Senior Molly Thebau said “My backpack is so large because my textbooks are so heavy that they would break any other backpack.”

Electronic textbooks are also starting to appear more and more with the advancements in technology. A teacher who has the tech knowledge and the ability to assign an electronic textbook instead is a savior of spines. However, this will still rarely happen as not all students have internet access, and technology is still an unreliable thing.

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