>>>>Rolling bags? Never heard of them.
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>>>The type with the wheels, like you use for airports. Not motorized, though.
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>>Ah, I do know those. They call them "wheel bags" and are not allowed at her school for some reason.
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>I'm repeatedly amazed by how many rules American schools have. We thought we were oppressed and hindered by the house rules when we were kids/teenagers, but compared with the sample I got from my daughters from six schools (2 elementary, 2 middle, 2 high), it's 1984 all over in almost every school they went to. Luckily, the youngest is in a magnet program, where rules are much more relaxed, and the other two have already graduated, so I'm not being regularly fed the rubbish. Some of the things that totally shocked me:
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>- you can't just call home and say you'll go with a friend after school, if the friend takes a different bus. You need to bring a written letter from the parents that you'll be on a different bus, i.e. your improvised one-hour visit becomes a premeditated plan spanning two days
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>- you can't visit the toilet during a class without another writ, this time given by your teacher. anyone caught in the halls during class without a written cause of presence is a suspect
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>- you must not or you must access your locker between classes, depending on the school. There was even one where there was no rule about that.
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>There were a lot of other that were so out of my world that I wasn't able to memorize them.

And I think all of these things have been rules since I started school. We had a bit more freedom about the bus thing, but all the others were there. Growing up somewhat in a rural area, we could ride/walk to school or not take the bus home without a note, but that would never happen at her school today. Not sure I agree that having them is a bad idea though. I will say, I hate rules that seem to have no purpose, but if it's regarding safety, I'm ok with that. Never saw it as oppression though.