LANSING, MI (AP)— A second Michigan school district is banning backpacks, this time because an elementary school student was found with a loaded gun.
Grand Rapids Public Schools announced Wednesday that backpacks are banned until further notice. Hours earlier, a third-grade student was found with a loaded gun at Stocking Elementary School.
Flint Community Schools also banned backpacks beginning May 1, citing a nationwide “increase in threatening behavior and contraband, including weapons, being brought into schools at all levels.”
Grand Rapids Public Schools said it's the fourth time this year that a student has been found with a handgun, three of them in backpacks.
