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No more heavy backpacks!

No more heavy backpacks!

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 3 months ago
It's time that Hill Country Middle School parents do something about what our children are carrying around on their backs. Over 60% of school age children report chronic back pain related to heavy backpacks. Each year over 5,000 school children go to emergency rooms because of injuries related to over-weighted backpacks. Occupational therapists recommend that a student's backpack weighs no more than 15% of their body weight. Please lend your support to this petition for the administrators at our school to help us find a better solution for our children. Backs are important! and you have them for a long time. We are confident that HCMS are sympathetic to this but probably need a bit of impetus to kick off a solution! HERE IS THAT IMPETUS.

Updates

April 4, 2012

I was checking my phone at dinner and my jaw just dropped because the momentum here is honestly getting impossible to ignore. It is wild to think about how many people are actually feeling this backpack weight issue as much as I am and it makes the early days of emailing people who didnt reply seem like a lifetime ago.

Reached 100 supporters

April 4, 2012

6 Comments

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Joe Speyer
11 years ago Featured

We have the solution for heavy backpacks please look at our website . www.airbac.com new technology .

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Brian Chen
14 years ago Featured

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW MY BACK HURTS READING THIS

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Jessica Lambert
14 years ago Featured

LOCKERS. Use them. We have them for a reason!! Why do they have to haul everything all day long?

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David Oliver
14 years ago Featured

I checked my kids bag on the scale and it was 22 lbs. He weighs like 90 lbs. That is way too much for a child to carry around.

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Mike Shepherd
14 years ago Featured

my son is in 7th grade and he can barely stand up straight with all those textbooks. he has back pain already and he is only 12. fix this.

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Sarah Whitaker
14 years ago Featured

My daughter complains about her shoulders hurting every single day. She is so small and the bag is bigger than her. Something has to change.

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