The students of Logansport High School are upset due to a heavily enforced no-backpack policy. This policy is making school life less efficient and more stressful. Students have to deal with the lack of backpacks on top of their typical high school stress. Many students have extremely inconvenient locker placements and must walk very far during the 6-minute passing period for something as simple as a calculator.  Some students even avoid coming to class as prepared as they should be because of this policy’s inconvenience; big, thick textbooks, a folder for each class, pens and pencils are just some of the few things a student must have to succeed, and so on.

Students will continue to struggle because of this policy; if things stay the same, students will dread school more. This policy poses an unnecessary challenge to students that provides no benefit to anyone. Many students have kept their phones in their pockets rather than their lockers. Many students have retaliated by utilizing their phones during class because of how unfair they see this policy to be. We all understand that things were different in high school 40 years ago; we are in a new era of education. It’s time to give back the backpacks.

It is necessary to stand up to policies made without the consideration of our student body. It’s time to act and put our backpacks where they belong— on us.

Special thanks to Annika LaOrange, Jennifer Anaya-Serrano, and Jackson Lythgoe.