Backpacks banned in some Houston schools

[stomperrob]

HISD Bans Backpacks For Final Days

POSTED: 6:31 pm CDT May 16, 2007
UPDATED: 12:19 pm CDT May 17, 2007

HOUSTON -- Some Houston Independent School District campuses are banning backpacks as the school year winds down, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

District officials said safety is a top priority. The last day of school is May 24.

A number of schools are banning backpacks on campus in the final days of classes to hold down the possibility that someone might try to bring a weapon onto campus, and to discourage kids from trying to slip water guns, silly string and other disruptive items into the school for last-day pranks, officials said.


HISD Schools Banning Backpacks
Accelerated Learning and Transition Academy
Austin High School
Briscoe Elementary
Burrus Elementary
Cage Elementary
Deady Middle School
DeZavala Elementary
Dowling Middle
Edison Middle
E.O. Smith Education Center
Fondren Middle
Fonville Middle
Hartman Middle
HISD High School For Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Kennedy Elementary
Lanier Middle
Lee High School
McReynolds Middle
Milby High
Mitchell Elementary
Oates Elementary
Ortiz Middle
Reagan High School
Revere Middle
Shearn Elementary
Stevenson Middle
Thomas Middle
Turner Elementary
Williams Middle
Woodson Middle

[mrblitz]

Unfortunately, I can see this becoming more prevelant as time goes on.

[treat24]

i personally see no problem with this at all... They should be just about done with their text books etc... no big deal...

[beanoX3]

This has been in effect in local schools in my area for a few years now. Kids can bring backpacks to school, but they can't use them during the school day, while class is in session. They get 5-10 minutes between classes to head out to their locker and switch books though.

[Atog]

I'm kind of surprised that they're doing this in Texas, of all places.
Isn't the right to bear silly string there in the second amendment?

[treat24]

I'm kind of surprised that they're doing this in Texas, of all places.
Isn't the right to bear silly string there in the second amendment?

what is bear silly string... is it silly string made by bears?

[BGbootha]

Yeah this is has been a rule in my district for a while now to (a few years atleast). I have no issues with it, and love the fact I am not tripping over backpacks while I walk around the room.

[Atog]

I'm kind of surprised that they're doing this in Texas, of all places.
Isn't the right to bear silly string there in the second amendment?

what is bear silly string... is it silly string made by bears?

Yeah, isn't everything in Texas made out of bears?
I've never been there