How did anything but a backpack day start?

The craze originally went viral on TikTok, spurring a country-wide trend for high school students to attend school toting increasingly bizarre school-supply-vessels. West seniors pushed the envelope, bringing Grubhub bags, rolling suitcases, laundry baskets and even dogs and younger siblings.



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Michigan school district bans backpacks, even clear ones, amid concern over guns. Monday was the first day of the prohibition for public schools in Flint, where threats at one campus in April helped to inspire the new rule.

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But in the last three years, a growing number of districts are testing backpack policies. For one, the Washington Post finds that at least 27 school districts have started restricting backpacks in the last 18 months for fear of gun violence. Others are instituting regular searches for weapons inside.

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The general purpose of a backpack is to carry belongings wherever you go. In the military, this is necessary for long-term missions or any time you need to carry a lot of gear with you. Since this is what the backpack is designed for, it tends to have a larger capacity than other packs.

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Front loading, sometimes called panel loading, means the main compartment opens up similar to the way suitcases open, so you have a big opening to work with. Top loading means the backpack opens up at the top, usually giving you a smaller opening.

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