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A friend of mine is a 3rd grade teacher... he has been instructed not to make the kids carry too many books home... otherwise their backpacks will be too heavy. (Not that their parents pick them all up right at the door... not like the days of when we all had to walk a couple of miles uphill each way in the snow).
That is a load of crap if you ask me. I can remember dragging every last book I was assigned home... and not being able to fit them all in my backpack. You know what happened as a result? I got stronger from carrying all those books. I also figured out when the heck I had a few extra moments to try to knock off an assignment so I didn't have to carry the extra books.
No red markers, not too many books. At this rate, we should just hand them HS diplomas for showing up half the time.
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