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22-09-2019

Muscat Daily

MUSCAT - Health hazards surrounding heavy school bags have been a cause of concern for some time now. Many schools across the world are thinking of ways to address the issue in their own ways.

The Al Ofooq Basic Education School in North Batinah has come up with a unique initiative wherein students are required to keep bags in school cupboards and carry only a folder instead.

The initiative called the Education Folder currently targets over 300 students in classes 1 and 2. Speaking to Muscat Daily, Rahma bint Nasir al Saadi, principal of the school said the initiative was started during the summer months.

“The school has assigned each student a cupboard to put his or her school bag every Sunday and he or she has to just carry an educational folder instead. Students just have to take some books for homework.”

Aisha Salim al Buraiki, assistant school principal, said, “Many parents used to complain about the school bags being heavy and that it caused back, neck and shoulder pain in many children. We have also implemented an e-learning system within the school and communicate with the parents regularly. We send the curriculum electronically to parents so that they can track their child’s progress.”

She added, “On Thursday, the students take their school bags home so that the parents are updated on all things done at school. We are hoping that soon our children will carry iPads.”