High school bans backpacks to make school safer

In my first year of high school (about 10 years ago) our school came out with some dumb policy that said we could only use "string backpacks". Those are those dumb drawstring bags that you see people use in gyms all the time. So we had to carry all our stuff in those, which was a pain, especially to carry heavy math and english books. They said it was to cut down on "hallway traffic" because our school was over-crowded at the time.

Bunch of bull if you ask me. I heard people complain all the time how they hurt our backs more, plus those bags break easily (the cheap ones anyway) so I think I went through 2 or 3 by the end of the year.

Regardless, that policy was removed the following year.

So I would suspect that if this article is true, it probably won't last long.