After the ability to fit a Trapper Keeper and the electronics, backpacks have another highly coveted attribute: The ability to save your child's life.
Staff at Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, confiscated an unloaded handgun from the second grader on May 3. Winstrom said officials did not believe there were any threats of violence from the student. Becker said the gun was brought into the child's home and left in an area where he could access it. Becker declined to answer where the gun was located before the child obtained it.The child abuse charge carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and the felony weapons charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.Grand Rapids Public Schools banned backpacks earlier this month after a handgun was found on a student.
In three of the four incidents, a gun was in a backpack. The district said the latest confiscations involved elementary school students, including the discovery of a