by KYW's Brad Segall

A Montgomery County, Pa. school district’s plan to require students to carry mesh or clear backpacks this year is drawing some sharp criticism from the students themselves.

Wissahickon is just the latest district to mandate see-through backpacks in the hallways of its high school. The schools are hoping to avoid tragedies like the Columbine shooting and closer to home, last December’s suicide inside Springfield High. But students like sophomore Joe Salvo are resisting. He says it’s a privacy issue:

“Imagine if you were at an airport and they required all of your luggage to be see-through, you know. I don’t think a lot of people would be happy about that, that’s kind of what we feel like right now.”

Salvo and dozens of other students plan to show up at next week’s school board meeting in an effort to get the policy reversed. He says they have hundreds of names on petitions and they are planning a “day of silence” when school opens in early September.