The shirt reads: “THE BACKPACKENING,” on a red banner across the top.
Below it, a school backpack is stuffed past capacity and bursting open — pencils, rulers, crayons, a glue stick, an exercise book and a juice carton all erupting out of the zip against a jagged blue starburst.
Naming it like a horror sequel is the right instinct. Anyone who has done the August supply list knows the scale of the operation. For teachers, for parents, and for the first week back.
