School District purse ban draws parents' ire [View All]

[The Straight Story]

School District purse ban draws parents' ire

Students already forced to stash book bags in lockers now can't bring purses into class.

Administrators say girls use them to bring inappropriate items into class, to conceal texting and to carry makeup they apply during lessons.

The Saucon Valley School District opted this school year to extend its book-bag restriction to purses, and parents are upset.

“I am very outraged by it,” said Terri Simpson, a Lower Saucon Township resident with two teenage daughters. “It is not an inner city school where they have to worry about guns being toted around by girls.”

But Superintendent Sandra Fellin says purses carried inappropriate items into school.

“Purses became a distraction and at times concealed items or activities that should not take place during a school day,” Fellin wrote in an e-mail.

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