The business of heavy bags


School Children from Sekolah Kebangsaan Jenis CinaYok Bin at kubu Melaka carrying heavy school bags.

AFTER reading “It’s time to ease their load” (The Star, Oct 17), I felt compelled, as a former teacher who was in the teaching service for over 30 years, to offer some insights into this never-ending issue of heavy school bags borne by our long-suffering children.

Issuing guidelines on reducing the weight of the school bags without looking into the root causes and taking a firm no-nonsense approach to address this perennial problem serves little purpose.

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