Reply #2: Searches are nothing new.. In the 60's we routinely

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had locker searches.. The only difference was back then they were looking for overdue library books & stale food left in lockers :)

School districts could save themselves a lot of money and time..and students could save many back ailments if they just banned backpacks..

Put a book on every desk, and provide paper & pen/pencils..and give each kid a "home" set of school books, and there's no NEED for backpacks to carry around 40 lbs of books ..

Provide WORKING "personal hygeine" machines in the girls' bathrooms, and you eliminate the "need" for purses too..

If school safety is an issue, remove the NEED for students to carry shit around..

Give them a re-loadable atm-style card for lunch purchases and you have eliminated the need for them to carry anything except a notebook.. No bags, no backpacks, no purses..

That has to be cheaper than oodles of school cops and a bunch of metal detectors :)