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Fancy Footwear – For a good part of the year your child is going to have to wear something a little warmer than Crocs™ and flip-flops, so why not get them some shoes “with attitude” from Steve Madden. Designed for boys and girls the styles manage to be classic yet innovative. A+ if you get your son the stylish “Glock” shoe, D- if your daughter goes to school in hooker-boots.

Bringing up the rear on the list is the bulletproof backpack, an item marketed with all the scare tactics of a 1950’s gasmask. In fact, more head injuries occur every year on school playgrounds than have ever occurred in school shootings, and yet we don’t suggest our children wear hardhats or bubblewrap to school. F for fearmongering.