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Small School children bag weight

On 3/2/2006 in Bangalore I have seen the small kid carrying a huge bag to the school. I think the age of the kid is around 8 years. But it carries a huge amount of the luggage, books on its back. When I went and asked the mother of the kid. She said the school is very strict that they have to carry the Class work, Homework and textbook for each subject. They have 8 subjects. And also the kid carries the lunch box and water bottle, which adds another half Kg in the bag. That is what the younger generation is suffering from. Our kids will also face the same crisis if this type of the small things cannot be resolved at this stage it will be a very problem in future. And also I have seen the parents sitting in a queue for a whole night to get the application form to join their kids to just 1st class. What matters the reputation of the school? Some schools even interview their parents to join their children. Some even put the rules that parents must be studied, should have the income mor...