The AP has an update on the anti-backpack crusade. Several Arizona schools have banned backpacks because of the potential back problems they cause. It beats the hell out of teaching students the proper way to carry their books.

Curiously, they don't bother to say just how students are supposed to carry their books. Do students have to carry them all loose, or did they just stop assigning homework as well? Maybe they'll go back to strapping their belt around it like in the old days.

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