HOWARD COUNTY, M.d. — This school year hasn’t been the easiest transition for some students and parents when it’s not just cellphones that aren’t allowed in the classroom.

Less than a month before the start of classes, parents of students at Bonnie Branch Middle School learned that backpacks would not be permitted in the classroom.

The school and five others within the Howard County Public School System, including Dunloggin, Mayfield Woods, Hammond, Glenwood and Folly Quarter all do not allow backpacks in class.

“I wasn’t too happy because I wasn’t sure how I was going to hold all of my stuff,” 8th grader Brendan Scanlon said.

The transition, hasn’t been so smooth. Scanlon says he almost broke his computer before getting a zipper binder to carry all of his supplies about a week after c

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