write a letter to the editor of news paper regarding undo burden on school children as they carry heavy bags to school
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Are children carrying heavy school bags?
A major concern has been expressed in India by parents and child activists that children are carrying heavy school bags as per requirements given by their schools. Though most of the schools in India fall a trimester pattern and kids need to carry only textbooks and notebooks for their term (1, 2 or 3), because they study many subjects and each subject requires some notebooks, they end up carrying heavy school bags.
Excerpts from a news article in the daily "The Hindu" (India, Nov 17, 2014):
"The campaign against heavy schoolbags continued in Mysuru on Monday with child rights activists and workers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) weighing the bags of children outside a private school in Krishnamurthy Puram in the City.
The activists of People's Legal Forum (PLF) and AAP turned up outside the school early on Monday with two weighing scales - one each to weigh the child and the school bag.
"We weighed about 45 children belonging to various classes from LKG to X. Against the medically prescribed weight of the school, which should be no more than 10 percent of the child's body weight, the average weight of the bag was found to be 20.43 per cent of the body weight. It is more than double the prescribed weight", said Mr Baburaj P., convenor of PLF. Heavy school bags affect the spine of the child and cause long-term deformities, he added.
Monday's exercise of weighing schoolbags was the second one in the last one week. Last Monday, the campaigners had gathered outside a school on Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Road and weighed about 29 students.
While the average weight of the school bag during last week's exercise was 25 per cent, Mr. Baburaj said the average weight of the bag during Monday's exercise was 20 per cent as the school management had got the wind of their campaign and warned the students against bringing additional books. "The school management had on Saturday cautioned the students to bring only the books prescribed in the timetable", Mr. Baburaj said quoting a parent. "
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3, west Colony
New Delhi-110020
28 may , 2017
To The Editor,
The Times of India,
New Delhi-110018
Sir,
Subject: The heavy burden of school bags
I am a regular reader of your newspaper and wish to use the columns of your esteemed daily to bring to the notice of the public the plight of young school kids who carry heavy bags to school.
The curriculum in most schools has become vast over the past few decades. Many new subjects of study and books have been introduced. As a result, children's school bags have become extremely heavy. This causes an unnecessary strain on the kids' spine and can lead to serious injury. It has been seen that sometimes children carry bags that are more than half their body weight. It is astonishing to see children, most of them barely four foot tall, carry huge schoolbags to school five days a week, carrying them from their homes to the assembly, then to class, and then back home again. The lucky ones have transport to and from school, but even they have to carry their own bags while in the school premises.I hope that the public and concerned authorities will take appropriate steps to relieve the students of the heavy burden of school bags.
Thank you
Yours faithfully,ABC