r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/holesofdoubt Jul 16 '26

That backpack would be lucky to last a week with all the books I had in high school.

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u/StopThePresses Jul 16 '26

They made us use clear backpacks in the 2000s, and this was definitely my experience. They're made as thin as they can get away with. I usually went through 3 or 4 of them in a year. I can't imagine they've gotten better since then.

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u/TheeAntelope Jul 16 '26

I had one backpack through all of high school and it wasn't that expensive. My kids, though, go through a backpack a year (Sometimes 2 in a year). It is a shame that nothing gets made to last anymore.

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u/MagneticFluxDrive Jul 16 '26

Did they remove lockers? No longer allowed to just go back and forth to the locker and exchange books for the next class?

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u/peridot_mermaid Jul 16 '26

I can’t speak for nowadays, but when I was in high school in the 2010s our passing period was 5 mins. So you had 5 minutes (at most, assuming your teacher didn’t hold you or the class back for some reason) to get from one end of the school to the other, pee, and also had to walk against the 4k other students also in the hallways at the same time as you. There often just wasn’t enough time to justify going to a locker, especially if it was on the complete opposite end as to where you needed to be

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u/MagneticFluxDrive Jul 16 '26

That makes sense. I also attended in the 2000's, though a much smaller school (9th grade - 12th grade, 600 students tops) we also had a 5 minute window. Just swapped out books between classes.

These schools work on the release times between classes and give a bit more realistic passing period then backpacks would not really be needed during the school day. Just for when the student needs to take home books and what not.

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u/Minimum-Interview800 Jul 16 '26

Yup, I was in 8th grade when Columbine happened. When we started high school we had to carry clear or mesh backpacks. I had a mesh Jansport and pencils tore holes in it, it caught on everything.

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u/iamacraftyhooker Jul 16 '26

You literally can't use them in Canada. They become brittle and crack in the cold.

Growing up all the cool backpacks had clear pockets, but I was never allowed to get them because they would break

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u/greg-the-destroyer Jul 16 '26

I’m in Iowa, and I could definitely see that happening

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u/Purple-FuzzySlippers Jul 16 '26

But kids don’t have text books now. It’s all on their (extra shitty) Chromebook

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u/HarrowDread Jul 16 '26

I had an iPad in school, text books weren’t bad, school work was annoying with the app we used but tolerable but I mostly just played games on it

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u/greg-the-destroyer Jul 16 '26

With barely enough RAM to run q13x Eaglercraft. But it will run JS better than WASM. Ask me for the link if you want it

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u/BananaPants430 Jul 16 '26

Our high schoolers don't use lockers because they have a 3 minute passing period - they haul around whatever they need for the entire day. Clear backpacks wouldn't survive for long.

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u/TakeMeHome_ImLost Jul 16 '26

My kids have never had text books, one is 16 already. Different times. It's all chromebooks.