A handwritten note to be placed in a backpack sits on a table during a back-to-school backpack assembly event at Big Sunday on Aug. 5, 2026, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles-based nonprofit Big Sunday hosted its 17th annual Back-to-School Week, bringing together hundreds of volunteers to fill 5,500 backpacks with school supplies for elementary school students in need across Southern California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 14, 2026
The back-to-school blues are here — for parents
DALLAS (TNS) — School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know it looking at...
