by Kris Kennedy

Created on: January 17, 2010

Allow Rolling Backpacks

The backpack has become standard for all students, but students start school in kindergarten or preschool. Kindergarteners and preschoolers are little.  Other kids are carrying more and more items to school. With the invention of the wheel, it helped mankind to carry much larger loads. We need the same for our students.

Small children

Doctors are increasingly diagnosing children with back problems because of the weight of the loads they are carrying on their backs. Some of these problems will affect the rest of their lives. What remains more important - the physical development of a young child or the space in which the rolling backpack takes in the hallways?  Many schools say there is not enough room in the hallways for students pulling a backpack behind them. Communities could build larger hallways or more hospitals and medical practices. In another situation, maybe we can change the management of the space and time so schools can put the well-being of students over capital management. 

Smaller children also carry many items. Frequently young children carry items for science projects or artwork, sometimes napping supplies and some age appropriate toys. This makes a large load for small bodies. With the wheels on the backpack, they can carry everything with ease.

Older youth aided with wheels

Older students may be larger and can handle a larger backpack, but frequently the school day requires them to carry everything through out the day. A secondary student moves throughout a building. Most American workers have a workspace in which workers work from, but the American students space varies through out the day. A traditional high school has lockers, but the schools have grown beyond the ability to use the lockers more than once a day to drop off a jacket. Some school construction leaves many classrooms with entrances directly from the outdoors so a jacket remains with the student

American school promotes sports and extra-curricular activities but these require many items. Just as a sales representative frequently need, wheeled display cases, students need wheels on the backpack. With a wheeled backpack, a student has the ability to carry items that support education and extra curricular activities. 

Imagine all the items that adults carry in their cars that they can go back and get if needed during the course of the day. Students live out of the backpack as we live out of our car, which has wheels. Older students may also have cars, but even then they are unable to return to the car anymore than they can return to the locker.

Students need the invention of the wheel. The wheeled backpack helps students carry what they need and prevents any physical harm.

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