“For example, CNN recently interviewed one young mother that couldn’t even afford to buy a backpack for her preschooler…“
Before I get all choked up over this woman I’d like to see her list of monthly payments. If you said “can’t afford” of a family in 1922 you could damn well believe it. Today I’m not so sure.
Why does avoid need a backpack anyway?
Twelve years s of public school and I never had a backpack.
I did have a lunchbox in elementary school.