Recently teachers at Canton High School have been encouraged to not allow students to bring their backpacks into the classrooms. The reason is they want to stop the spread of cockroaches, bed bugs and other insects. The whole backpacks only going only in the lockers thing isn’t going to take care of the bug situation. 

First of all, not all teachers make the students put their bags in the lockers. Also students pile their bags up in the hallway because they don’t want to go all the way back to their lockers to put up their bags. Bugs can easily crawl in and out of lockers and into ceilings and classrooms. The thought that not carrying a backpack into a classroom will stop the spread of bugs is laughable. 

If the teachers are going to start making students put their bags in their lockers, EVERYONE needs to. If I have to take my bag to my locker, then students who have bugs should have to take theirs to their lockers too, instead of leaving them piled outside classroom doors. 

Students have recently seen cockroaches all over the school.

“There was a cockroach that crawled up the wall and it went into Mr. Barney’s ceiling,” Meghan Meat, freshman, said. 

The bugs are in the ceiling, on desks, floors, and everywhere else. 

Whenever a cockroach runs across the desk next to me, it is time to do something because it’s gross. There are cockroach sprays at Dollar General that cost $2-10 dollars, which is affordable. Just a little spray of that on the backpack and around the house and boom bugs are gone. So please take some time and get rid of them. 

If the school isn’t going to send students home because they are bringing in bugs, then the school needs to do something else about getting rid of the bugs that are here because whatever they are doing is not working.