Dufferin-Peel board rethinks backpack ban.

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Meeshika Sharma
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The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is directing all of its high schools with a ban on backpacks in the classroom to go back and consult with students to come up with a plan that works for all involved after students filed online petition.

The petition had accumulated more than 1,500 signatures as of Friday, Sept. 22, asking the Catholic board to rescind the rule.

Students at Brampton’s Cardinal Leger Secondary School have been frustrated over a backpack ban that was instituted at the start of the school year.

Bruce Campbell, the Catholic board’s general manager of communications and community relations, said director of education Marianne Mazzorato had asked the Student Voice Council, a group of student leaders from the board’s secondary schools  at a recent meeting to share thoughts about the backpack rule and how its effect.

After hearing from them, Mazzorato and her associate directors made the decision to tell all of the schools that had a rule in place prohibiting backpacks in the classroom to go back and consult with both students and student councils to work with administrators to develop a solution acceptable for all parties.

However the decision on whether or not to allow backpacks in the classroom is done on a school-by-school basis and is not decided at the board level.

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