Straggling behind Sofia was her scarf-less, blanched-out, middle-aged mother, struggling under the weight of her heavy school backpack.
RESIDENTS here have long wished for a thriving downtown where they could shop and work — a business district that would also help shoulder their heavy school taxes.
He's tireless, dodging the school representatives in the schoolyard as he passes by with yet another heavy School-In-The-Box education kit on his head.
Carrying a heavy school bag may have been a workload that slightly increased their risk as a child, but the workload associated with their job increased their risk more during their early working life, although this risk disappeared when they got promoted to a job with lighter duties.
A number of causal mechanisms have been proposed for adolescent back pain, including carriage of heavy school bags, rapid bony growth, inadequate fit of furniture to body size, poor muscle strength, poor motor control, balance and coordination, and poor posture [ 5, 7- 9].
Several male students from female-heavy schools took pains to note that they were not thrilled with the status quo.
We revel in our massive concentration of wealth, private-public transportation, private tech-heavy schools, and the underlying ideology that the government is stupid.
Since the methodology is skewed toward institutions that prioritize research and boast strong science and engineering programs, the list is dominated by tech-heavy schools.
*Negative numbers indicate instances where minority-heavy schools are more likely to have qualified teachers.
More and more institutions are turning toward individualized majors as a different way to promote the well-rounded ethos of requirement-heavy schools.
Evidence of that oversized role includes the focus of colleges and universities, the amount of money invested in athletic programs, salaries of athletic department employees and dismal graduation rates at many sports-heavy schools.
