Some schools lighten kids' loads by banning backpacks view story
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Erika Hobbs - - Orlando Sentinel
| Alexander Cassese pitches forward as he slings the daily haul over his shoulders. Inside his backpack are five composition books, two three-ring binders, 13 green folders, an algebra workbook, a supplies case, a graphing calculator, a cell phone and his blue rubber ball.
"My grandma can't even lift it," said Alexander, a seventh-grader at Galaxy Middle School in Deltona.
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