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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by ryanmercer on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:11AM (#21683001)
>The clear backpacks are silly I'll admit, and also pointless.

My fiance is a high school teacher, in the past two months they've had a student come to school with a handgun and be expelled and handed over to the police and another expelled for having legit dealer quantities (nearly a pound) of marijuana (packed and placed in mason jars in her backpack) in a state where it isn't legal at a state level.

I can see why some might want clear backpacks.

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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by TeMPOraL on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:17PM (#21684417)
It's still crazy. It's not like opaque lunch boxes and paper bags are luxury items. Concealing a handgun or drugs isn't all that difficult.
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