School District to Auction off Unused Clear Backpacks

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina college district plans to public sale off 46,000 unused clear backpacks because it tries to get better cash it spent below a plan for elevated safety in faculties.

The Charlotte Observer reviews that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district spent nearly $500,000 on the backpacks for highschool college students. Critics, nevertheless, mentioned little to no analysis has confirmed that the backpacks can assist cease weapons on the door. The backpacks in the end weren’t used after college officers have been shocked to seek out a lot of them had a warning label about cancer-causing chemical compounds whereas unpacking them.

At its common assembly Tuesday, the Board of Schooling is predicted to approve promoting the backpacks and different surplus property by way of on-line bids.

“After exhausting choices for return and resell, the superintendent’s advice to the Board of Schooling on Tuesday is dispersion of the stock in surplus public sale,” district spokeswoman Cassie Fambro mentioned in an announcement Saturday.

Over two years, the district plans to spend thousands and thousands so as to add staff and help packages, and improve the variety of social staff, counselors and psychologists in faculties, in response to a particular report revealed in January by the Observer.

A minimum of 30 weapons have been discovered on district campuses through the 2021-22 educational yr.

Final week, an Observer evaluation discovered the district noticed a lower within the second half of the college yr within the variety of weapons discovered on campuses. Many attribute the advance to the location of physique scanners at some excessive faculties to detect weapons and wider use of an nameless reporting app by college students.

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