said by JamesPC
:what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid.
P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them.
I don't know when, or where you went to school, but here the books that kids carry today are the same size, if not smaller for some subjects, than we carried back in the late 70's to early 90's.