Heavy bags

[joconde]

jesschan:

My son's form teacher teaches 5 five subjects - Eng, Maths, Science, Social Studies and Health Ed. She has a tendency not to follow the timetable and teaches any of her subjects on any day. So she told the children to bring all the books for her convenience. Do any of you have this problem?

same here. sometimes my son will insist on bringing a textbook that's not in the timetable. He says sometimes his teacher (who teaches more than one subject) may swap the slots if he can't finish the syllabus in the previous lesson, etc.

And worst, occasionally the teacher will ask students to bring the enitre subject file, which contains all the past worksheets, for revision. It's like the weight of 3 text books ! And then my son will still insist on bringing all the textbooks, workbooks, etc, even though I told him since teacher say she's revising past worksheets and bag already so heavy, why still need to bring those ? But he say scared teacher will scold. So i think what the teacher can do is at least let the class know which books will not be needed, otherwise, students will assume they are all needed. (i'm going to bring this up at the coming teacher-parent meeting)

Basically I have the feeling tat these teachers are just too disorganized in their teaching and often couldn't execute lesson as planned. Maybe class size too big for them to handle ?

In any case, i think teachers should not expect students to carry all subject books everyday so that they could swap timetables around at their own convenience !

[caroline3sg]

My suggestion, keep the files (with completed worksheets) at home. Just bring one file to sch to put all worksheets given by teachers (all subjects). Talk to teachers about this. Wait till exam over, I would talk to teachers but maybe they won’t follow this suggestion.


Even there is locker, it is either not used or used for art & craft materials. Teachers may keep unmarked HE, Music, SS workbooks.

[caroline3sg]

Regarding using other not important periods (ie PE, HE, SS) to conduct eng, maths lessons, I am okay with it.

[sleepy]

My girl's school bag weighs 5.9kg on one of the heaviest days of the week :faint:


I used an electronic weighing machine to weigh

[joconde]

sleepy:

My girl's school bag weighs 5.9kg on one of the heaviest days of the week :faint:


I used an electronic weighing machine to weigh

Using the 10% guideline, the child must weigh at least 59kg to be able to carry this bag. My son weighs 25kg, so his sch bag should not be more than 2.5kg

[caroline3sg]

Recently I switched to trolley bag. My son said his shoulders pain. He is only 21kg.

[hot_opp]

But still need to carry the trolley bag up the stairs.

In my kids’ school, cannot pull trolley bag into the hall becos very noisy.

[sleepy]

My girl’s classroom on second floor, quite difficult to drag trolley bag up & down the stairs

[buds]

joconde:

Using the 10% guideline, the child must weigh at least 59kg to be able to carry this bag. My son weighs 25kg, so his sch bag should not be more than 2.5kg

Yah hor.. What if a child is underweight? Can carry less stuff in the bag?
Hehee.. Didn't think of it that way, until you mentioned.

caroline3sg, you are right. I am very irritated when the teachers tell
the students they must have these files in their bags every day. Sigh.
They can bring home the sheets and we can help to file. Bring everyday
oso sometimes no worksheets to file.

[Ca3kids]

caroline3sg:

Recently I switched to trolley bag. My son said his shoulders pain. He is only 21kg.

Switch to trolley bag even worst. Trolley bag is much heaver than normal bag esp if kids need to claim stairs in school, noisy when drag and little kids may trip and fall too. I tried before for my eldest girl when she is in P1.

My P5 eldest girl weighs 37kg and her bag is around 6 to 6.5 kg! I ask her why cannot reduce, she say she need for lessons and already reduce. Dont know why school cannot assign lockers to them as I say lockers in front of the classroom. I think must sms her teacher to ask liao

I always tell her that she is like carrying gold bar to school. When I carry for her, I always felt very heavy. She told me all the friends also carry heavy bag. OMG! :!: Nowadays even weight of bags also stress out parents.