In 1999, the middle school I attended required meshed or see-through bookbags. May be more schools should put in policies like these while we wait on our politicians to do something.
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I will never understand why people think starting from an assumption of guilt and treating all of the potential victims as guilty parties is some kind of improvement. This does not foster a more civilized environment. It has the opposite effect. It just escalates the atmosphere of terror.
Why? That is what widespread civilian disarmament does. There are many countries which use it to create a more civilized environment, like Russia and China.
Clear backpacks are more for spotting drugs I think, and even then it's pretty useless. Dealers in schools aren't carrying around kilos of coke, they're carrying easily concealable dime bags and the like.