{"id":1923209,"date":"2023-05-03T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flint-michigan-school-district-bans-backpacks-after-multiple-violent-threats\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:45:13","slug":"flint-michigan-school-district-bans-backpacks-after-multiple-violent-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flint-michigan-school-district-bans-backpacks-after-multiple-violent-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Flint, MI School District prohibits backpacks due to numerous violent threats."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflint-michigan-school-district-bans-backpacks-after-multiple-violent-threats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923209&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Flint School District Bans Backpacks for Safety Reasons<\/h2>\n<p>Students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/flint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flint, Michigan<\/a>, school district will have to leave their backpacks at home for the rest of the year. The Flint Board of Education voted unanimously last week to ban backpacks after two separate safety incidents occurred at Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint, prompting officials to close schools in the area. The policy went into effect on Monday.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Allowed and What&#8217;s Not<\/h3>\n<p>According to a letter from Superintendent Kevelin Jones to parents, students are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintschools.org\/apps\/news\/article\/1757540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not allowed<\/a> to carry backpacks into school buildings. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flint-michigan-school-district-bans-backpacks-after-multiple-violent-threats\/\" title=\"Flint, MI School District prohibits backpacks due to numerous violent threats.\">small purses carrying personal items<\/a>, clear plastic bags with gym clothes, and lunchboxes are allowed within reason. These bags will still be subject to search. If a student brings a backpack to school, the office will not keep the student\u2019s belongings. Instead, he or she will be sent to the school office, and a parent or guardian will pick up the student\u2019s belongings. Athletes will also have to drop off their equipment at the front office every day.<\/p>\n<h3>Why the Ban?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBackpacks make it easier for students to hide weapons, which can be disassembled and harder to identify or hidden in pockets, inside books or under other items. Clear backpacks do not completely fix this issue. By banning backpacks altogether and adding an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uc-berkeley-extends-dorm-lockdown-bans-solitary-outdoor-exercise-for-students\/\" title=\"UC Berkeley Extends Dorm Lockdown; Bans Solitary Outdoor Exercise For Students\">increased security presence<\/a> across the district, we can better control what is being brought into our buildings,\u201d Jones wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was motivated in part by two separate incidents that prompted schools to close; both incidents happened at Southwestern Classical Academy. First, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox23.com\/news\/trending\/student-17-arrested-after-threat-to-shoot-flint-school-like-oxford\/article_a5a45ab2-4a4d-5d8d-a7b1-3ff753e900c8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2021<\/a>, a student at the school was riding a school bus when she recorded a \u201crap-style\u201d video threatening to commit a school shooting \u201clike Oxford,\u201d a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-several-injured-in-school-shooting-near-detroit-suspect-in-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 school shooting<\/a> in nearby Oakland County. The school closed in response. Then in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/2023\/04\/flint-southwestern-closes-april-20-after-lockdown-due-to-threat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April<\/a>, the school closed due to another threat.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Superintendent Says<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cSchool safety remains an important topic for districts across the country, including here in Flint,\u201d Jones wrote in the letter. \u201cAs a district, we are taking a 360-degree approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege\/\" title=\"Michigan State University Teaching Conference Includes Discussions Segregated By Race, With White People Forced To Accept Their \u2018White Privilege\u2019\">create safe spaces<\/a> for children\u2019s academic journeys. To that end, we have reached a point where we must make difficult decisions and ask our school community to demonstrate flexibility, understanding and a shared sense of urgency when it comes to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-7429\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Flint, Michigan, school district will not be allowed to carry backpacks to school for the rest of the year. The Flint Board of Education voted unanimously last week to ban students from carrying backpacks. The decision came after two separate safety incidents occurred at Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint, both of which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1923210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11240,25662,4810,22386,11132,3924,4855,3947],"class_list":["post-1923209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-numerous","tag-backpacks","tag-district","tag-flint","tag-prohibits","tag-school","tag-threats","tag-violent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}