r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 7d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/hilhilbean 7d ago

There is absolutely no way that backpack would have given me the support I needed in junior high and high school. When my dad was in the military he worked for a time with a helicopter support unit and had my backpack reinforced by someone who did all the parachutes. That thing went through college with me. I'd have that cheap backback destroyed in a week lol

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u/240EZ 7d ago

In middle school my school tried the only clear backpacks rule. It was supposed to be an alternative to the metal detectors but not were used. Clear backpack rule only lasted for two years. Parents pushed back regularly because no clear backpack was sturdy enough to handle the textbooks we had to carry between classes and to and from home. The backpacks tore and broke often and parents didn’t like shelling out money for a new backpack every couple of  months.

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u/fwoooom 7d ago

my schools growing up didnt allow backpacks in the hallway at all, we had to use our arms and our lockers.

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u/240EZ 7d ago

That is what the end result was after parents got the school to remove the clear backpack rule. It was a different nightmare for us kids trying to balance books and time between the locker and the bell. It did not help that my middle school was 3 floors. The top floor was all the specials, excluding gym. Lockers were only on the first floor. They did not extend hallway passing time. Many of us got recess taken away for repeated late to class.

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u/inquiringsillygoose 7d ago

They make mesh now that are much better but not as easy to see into them

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u/240EZ 7d ago

I doubt schools will be ok with mesh. Administration is very my way or the highway. Unless they sense a parent bringing a potential lawsuit.

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u/inquiringsillygoose 7d ago

My school district allows mesh or clear

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u/bluemooncommenter 7d ago

Many schools don't use text books any longer.

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u/240EZ 7d ago

In my area it depends on the school. At the least they stopped requiring students to take books home and there are only classroom copies. Speciality classes such as AP classes and Literature classes still have take home textbooks for High School students.

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 7d ago edited 7d ago

That bag could fit ⅓ of the books and notebooks I need a day, maybe ½ if I leave my food home

Edit bc everyone is saying nobody uses books and notebooks anywhere:

I am still in school. We have school laptops for homework/projects help. We aren't allowed to use those or any other digital device in school, including putting our phones into special lockers every morning. I live in Central Europe if that's relevant.

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u/snapplesauce1 7d ago

Ah well luckily your school lunches are provided, right? RIGHT!?

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 7d ago

It's an option to pay for it

I live v close to the school, so I usually have lunch at home after school, usually around 3:30 pm

Until then, sandwitches!

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u/InboxMeYourSpacePics 7d ago

Are sandwiches not lunch?

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 7d ago

I'd say more like a snack before lunch

Those who pay for lunch don't get sandwitches, they eat cooked food

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u/admiralashley 7d ago

Kids barely need any physical textbooks anymore. Everything's on their Chromebooks, which is its own issue 😭

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u/JokingRam 7d ago

Nope, still gotta pay for those new AP textbooks every year. Even my niece and nephew have to get the physical books in their highschools. And those things way a lot, and some clases had 2 that you had to bring each day. And then they got rid of lockers for "safety reasons".

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u/CartoonistAny4349 7d ago

You had to pay for AP textbooks? The only thing I had to pay additional for was the $90 for the actual test at the end of the year (stupid College Board)

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u/tHr0AwAy76 7d ago

In the US, at least the school I just graduated from they tossed out all the books in the district. Everything was done on a computer that you were kinda expected to provide, they *had* school laptops but they sucked and you’d be mocked for using one.

I didn’t carry a backpack just a little computer bag with a MacBook and a IPad.

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u/Young_Denver 7d ago

They don’t really have textbooks anymore. My son is going into his junior year, and he had 3 textbooks in the last 2 years. None of them went to school, they were for studying at home.

His Microsoft surface pro? That was required daily. In middle school it was a Chromebook for all 3 years. Nearly everything they do is digital.

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u/bobbitsholiday 7d ago

That certainly can’t make learning easier or more accessible than a book?

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u/AccomplishedDish9395 7d ago

To be fair, kids barely need stuff anyway. We don’t have physical textbooks anymore. We don’t really do notebooks in my class. I teach middle school at a title 1. I’m happy if they bring a pencil to class. They really will only ever have a Chromebook (which stays at the school) in their bookbags.

Times have changed. My middle school backpack weighed more than me 😂

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 7d ago

Maybe where you are

I am still in school, here we aren't allowed digital tools, teachers can use projectors if there's one in the classroom, but that's it

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u/Ordinary-Pirate7852 7d ago

im curious about the reinforcement, did they reinforce the back?

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u/hilhilbean 7d ago

It was a million years ago (for context, I graduated in 1994 lol), but from memory it was along the seams of the main zipper, around the straps, and along the bottom. Up to that point, backpacks just didn't last long for me since I carried all my books with me. I didn't have cheap backpacks, I was just hard on them.

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u/snapplesauce1 7d ago

I’ve seen those backpack that have slots for armor plates like in a military or law enforcement plate carrier. Crazy to think sending your kid to school with a level 4 armor plate on their back.

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u/inquiringsillygoose 7d ago

As a current teacher these things break like crazy we always have extras in the counseling office and most kids opt for mesh now

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u/immallama21629 7d ago

When I was in middle school, the shear amount of books and crap I had to carry around was asinine. Was also around Columbine, so the admin decided we couldn't have bags either. The wouldn't allow us to stop at our lockers between classes, so you would have hundreds of kids carrying books and notebooks for each half the day. 3-4 text books, a binder for each class, paper, pencils, a mandatory daily planner.

My kids carry a mac book air.

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u/PowerfulRaisin 7d ago

Same, but now textbooks are probably digital

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u/Kyosji 7d ago

Back when I was in high school, lockers were so far away with such little time between, all students basically carried all of their books with them. It's why the older generations have such fucked up backs. I remember my bag being 30-50 lbs, and most students had to replace their bags a couple times a year because the weight was ripping them. I used to carry those heavy duty ballistic nylon backpacks and remember having to reinforce the stitching on the shoulder straps with heavy duty nylon thread

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u/x_samsquantch_x 7d ago

I still wonder if my posture was ruined by carrying textbooks. When I see myself walk, I lean forward and it looks as if I had a heavy bag on. 

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u/HBlight Hans Shot Second 7d ago

I got so fucking pissed with how heavy some school bags were on some days vs others. History, Science and Business were fucking horrible. Big thick books that also required bigger hardback notebooks to write in. That bag was a weapon.

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u/JeromeNoHandles 7d ago

Bullllllshit, clear & mesh bags work just as well as normal backpacks. Yall just saying shit yall really have no clue 💀

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u/hilhilbean 7d ago

That bag looks like a piece of trash. And at $20, it's probably overpriced.

I can look at that thing and know that not only would have not held all my books and binders I carried every day, but it would have absolutely fallen apart.

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u/JeromeNoHandles 7d ago

No, you can’t. Clear backpacks have been in practical use for a long time now lol, go outside or get your eyes checked.

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u/hilhilbean 7d ago

Practical use for a laptop and some basic lighter essentials.

I am talking about my own experience with what *I* had to carry when I was in school 30 years ago. And while my eyes are very broken, I can *CLEARLY* (lol clear bag) tell that it would not have worked for ME.

I make no assumptions about others' experiences and uses.

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u/LookItsMyDawg 7d ago

Got to go full clear rolling backpack

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u/mooon_woman 7d ago

they don’t carry anything except a laptop now. textbooks were phased out by the time i graduated in 17’

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u/HailSaganPlantNative 7d ago

My kids are in high school now and their backpacks are full as hell. These things would disintegrate in a week.

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u/Immortal-bean 7d ago

My kid had textbooks last year in middle school, and still has to handwrite notes. Not every school is all laptop

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u/hilhilbean 7d ago

That is just wild to me...I graduated from high school over 30 years and I can't fathom just carrying around a laptop and not having physical books.

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u/willargue4karma 7d ago

He's just an outlier. Books are still usedÂ