School's annoying punishment

[Darkness Dragons Revenge]

made to carry 20 pounds of locker stuff for erasing her name  

[Princess Zelda21]

That is so NOT right! It could cause her some major back problems in the future. Same with other students! That's just cruel and unusual punishment! Shame on whoever gave this stupid, unjust punishment!  

[JamesWN]

On the one hand, I never used my locker in middle or high school.

On the other hand, if I was one of her parents I'd be marching in there, cutting the tape off and telling them exactly where they can shove it. Especially with how some schools make you 'rent' the lockers nowandays.  

[Blind Blindness]

Ironically, I was the kid who carried a 20 pound backpack. Specifically for the reason that, at the time, I thought it would be too time consuming to be going back and forth to my locker and trying to manage getting to class on time. But that was my choice, and I would have been responsible for any physical issues because of it. I think it's quite unjust to make a 13 year old girl carry something that could physically harm her. Not a smart punishment, and I really don't see how they can enforce such a thing. The mother is in the right, I believe.  

[Princess Zelda21]

Blind Blindness

Ironically, I was the kid who carried a 20 pound backpack. Specifically for the reason that, at the time, I thought it would be too time consuming to be going back and forth to my locker and trying to manage getting to class on time. But that was my choice, and I would have been responsible for any physical issues because of it. I think it's quite unjust to make a 13 year old girl carry something that could physically harm her. Not a smart punishment, and I really don't see how they can enforce such a thing. The mother is in the right, I believe.

Yep, it's definitely cruel and unusual punishment. I can't imagine the problems that girl could have physically, which would really be a bad idea. Especially if she's taking gym class or something involving sports.  

[Blind Blindness]

Queen Spazzy

Am I the only one questioning how she had that much stuff in her locker in the first place?
Or questioning that a middle school girl only weighs fifty pounds?
I don't know about anyone else, but even if I HAD used my locker in middle school, I'd never have had twenty pounds worth of stuff in it.
And even though I was short and small, I certainly weighed over fifty pounds. neutral

50 pounds is incredibly skinny indeed. I don't know. In middle school I don't think I had close to twenty pounds, but in high school I did. But lots of teachers do require you to have separate notebooks for their classes, plus any textbooks, and that adds up fast. My book bag was a heap of crap.
But I still think it's an unreasonable punishment. I think an after school detention would have sufficed. I just don't think the punishment is really synonymous with the crime. I mean...why ban her from putting stuff in the locker? Why should any type of physical component be permitted unless she did something really bad? Unless they thought erasing one name was "bad enough." It's just a bit silly. But then again, it's yahoo. Who knows if they report the most accurately and complete xD  

[Princess Zelda21]

Yuki_Windira

Queen Spazzy

Am I the only one questioning how she had that much stuff in her locker in the first place?
Or questioning that a middle school girl only weighs fifty pounds?
I don't know about anyone else, but even if I HAD used my locker in middle school, I'd never have had twenty pounds worth of stuff in it.
And even though I was short and small, I certainly weighed over fifty pounds. neutral

Not just you wondering that. sweatdrop

Unless books have gotten even heavier than before.>>;

Maybe it's because some of the books are thicker, which adds more weight inside the backpack. Not to mention adding in the notebooks and other supplies contained from the locker.  

[JamesWN]

I know my highschool backpack weighed in at about 20 lbs with just two textbooks and a bunch of crap in it. And I was usually carrying a side track back along with it.  

[Princess Zelda21]

Yuki_Windira

Princess Zelda21

Yuki_Windira

Queen Spazzy

Am I the only one questioning how she had that much stuff in her locker in the first place?
Or questioning that a middle school girl only weighs fifty pounds?
I don't know about anyone else, but even if I HAD used my locker in middle school, I'd never have had twenty pounds worth of stuff in it.
And even though I was short and small, I certainly weighed over fifty pounds. neutral

Not just you wondering that. sweatdrop

Unless books have gotten even heavier than before.>>;

Maybe it's because some of the books are thicker, which adds more weight inside the backpack. Not to mention adding in the notebooks and other supplies contained from the locker.

That brings back painful memories.>.o' ~had a couple of backpacks rip from things like that along with backpains~

Ooh, that's not fun! :/ I remember one of my backpacks began to get ripped in some areas probably after so much heavy objects in there. Mostly the history and math books I'd say. Though in truth, I hardly ever used my locker and didn't have a huge boat load of items in there. Most of the time I carried some in my arms, like my binder and one of the books.