How will these all fit into my backpack?

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

If you do the backpack thing, don't do the cool over one shoulder thing. It's bad for your spine. Make sure you put both arms through both straps and wear it on your back.

I second that.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

If you do the backpack thing, don't do the cool over one shoulder thing. It's bad for your spine. Make sure you put both arms through both straps and wear it on your back.

high school? you must submit to peer pressure.

[Alex]

Put the lockers back and make them out of transparent aluminum. They're supposed to have invented that by now.

Or plexiglass.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Screw that. Be like the cool hunchbacks!

[Gemini Cricket]

How about teachers supply textbooks in their class for classroom use only. The ones the students have to buy stays at home. You check the books out at the beginning of class and check them back in at the end of class?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

How about teachers supply textbooks in their class for classroom use only. The ones the students have to buy stays at home. You check the books out at the beginning of class and check them back in at the end of class?

Text books are expensive. At anywhere from $100-$300 a pop, classroom sets (say, 30 books) cost $3000-$9000. How many classrooms are in a school? That's an investment of a few hundred thousand dollars, easy.

When I went to school, we were issued books that we kept and returned at the end of the year. But budgets are getting tight.