After so many mass shootings in schools, some districts are requiring students to use clear backpacks, and now, one school in Middlesex County has expanded the mandate to elementary and middle schools. GainerTV has reaction.
-- After so many mass shootings in schools, some districts are requiring students to use clear backpacks, and now, one school in Middlesex County has expanded the mandate from high school students to elementary and middle school."Every day I worry. Not one day I don't worry," mother Andrea Pereira said.As a result, students at all South River public schools are using clear backpacks, some for the first time.
In July, a letter was sent home to parents. The school district explained it was refining its current safety protocol, requiring clear backpacks at all schools to keep prohibited items out. The high school started using them in 2019.The school district says small handbags the size of half a sheet of paper are still allowed. So too are lunchboxes, but those must be kept in the lockers.
"A clear backpack will work, but you can still roll up a gun in a coat, so it's a good tool, but you're still gonna have to be wary," security and intelligence expert Brian Boyd said."You don't want to have the security people totally rely on looking at a backpack and maybe not inspecting. There should still be an inspection step if something looks a little unusual.
CBS2 asked the South River public schools superintendent to comment several times for this story, but she declined."I think they did an awesome job by doing this because you don't know what kids carry," mother Maria Posadas said. "It's a weird thing to have them walk around with everything see-through in their backpack, but if it's for my kid's safety, so be it," Pereira said.
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