My school Bag – A burden of Wisdom

Every night I ask my mother to apply balm to my paining back. My frail shoulders are not able to carry the weight of the books, notebooks that I need to carry everyday to school. I know we need to shoulder more & more responsibilities as we grow, but allow our shoulders to get fully developed not stressing them before they are ready to carry tons of expectations of tomorrow. What can be done to solve my problem, I thought of some of the options? Sharing with you some of our ideas.

1. If we have two subjects per day then I will have to carry two notebooks and books each day
2. If text books are divided into parts covering mid-term portion & mid-term to final exam portion then I will have to carry half the load
3. I saw Daddy’s old worksheets when he was appearing for JEE, can we have worksheets, which we can carry, depending on the day’s study schedule. I promise I will keep all of them in order & neatly filed in a ring folder
4. If I write in one notebook and flag them with post-it notes identifying the topic covered, then I need to carry only one note book everyday
5. If my school can keep my books then I do not have to carry them home and back, may be I will have to maintain two set of books, its ok.
6. My father was telling me about Amazon’s e-reader where you can download the book in that e-reader. I can store all my books from 1st to 10th standard and further till, I complete my education. I will then have to carry only one e-reader, which weighs less than 200 grams.
7. Similarly, I can use the electronic writing pad, where I can write in the same way I write in my notebook and then store those files in my home computer
8. We can have similar readers/ writers installed on our school desk. Morning and afternoon class students can open their books saved in the reader. I can read and write using them and at the end of the day can take the day’s work in a pen drive.
9. I really feel bad when our beloved teacher has to inhale the chalk dust while writing on the board. So in addition to black board or may be in place of black board we can have electronic board installed in each class, half portion of it can display the text pages and on half portion teacher can write with electronic pen.
10. All the books can be downloaded from the government data bank; it will save lot of money spent in printing also protecting environmental damage. We can a SIM card, which can be loaded every year after paying for the books.
11. The new technology of digital ink which is used in AMAZON KINDLE can be used in all those readers and screens, not adversely affecting our precious eyes
12. Now if you are thinking that this is all ok for urban children and not so for my rural mates then you are wrong, they understand the value of technology more than any of us and they will be the first to embrace it.

Can we take first steps? Can the leaders of today, think for the leader’s of tomorrow?

Shoulder our responsibility today for us to shoulder it tomorrow.