For several decades, every year at this time of the year, just a couple of days before the start of the new school year and way after everyone had bought at least most text books, you would hear news on people urging the government to do something about the over-weighted school bags for primary school students. Every year, I suppose it was because of the timing of the news, it was either too late to do anything about it or simply nothing was done or even was meant to be done about it. This year is no different.
In a region where just about everyone strides and talks much quicker than most other regions in the rest of the World, we get timely news such as these that leave no one anytime to be able to do anything. Which shows that these news are simple done for the sake having some news to report only.
And for decades, I have had a very simple solution for the problem of over-weighted school bags which no one would implement - have all text books published on plain paper leaflets rather than glossy books, so students could bring only the immediate chapters of the immediate subjects in a binder in lieu of all the books for the day.
Unfortunately, this region is a business and politics driven region rather than a problem solving driven region, and no doubt I can’t even tear off the chapters of every book for Alec without his teachers giving him shit for doing so. So, like most other problems within the region, this one remains.
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