Question

Draft a speech on a burden of heavy bags

Answer 1

Good morning to one and all. Today I stand before you to share something new about burden of heavy bags.

It is a common sight to see students carrying school bags that are unnecessarily heavy and often larger in size than their backs. Scientific studies offer a range of adverse implications on students, as they grow into adulthood, from carrying heavy school bags. It is time that parents and policy makers also understand both the short- and long-term impacts as reported in these studies because our students carry their school bags from home to school and back, six days a week, nine months a year, for thirteen years of their developmental period.

Some of the commonly discussed effects are: fatigue, muscle strain, back pain, distortion of the spine’s natural curves, rounding of the shoulders, poor body posture, and short attention spans. Heavy school bags are also known causes of cervical and lumbar pains. Convincing claims also point out that reduction and shortening of the lumbar spine in proportion to the weight of the school bag will result in overloading and degenerative changes in the spine. Such changes are known causes of back pain in later years. It has also been reported that growth points in the bones from which bones grow will be damaged by carrying excessively heavy school bags, resulting in abnormal or stunted growth.

The above impacts are alarming in various ways. Firstly, the impacts will have a huge burden on our health system, and some studies term these impacts as healthcare time bombs. Secondly, the toll of excessive weight of school bags on our school children will result in under-developed human capital because some studies have made a persuasive claim of causality between healthy bodies and high student achievement.

Hence, carrying heavy bags adversely impacts students.

Thank you!

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