"We have overcrowding in our school... Purses were banging into people in our hallways."

Banning purses in school:

"We allow students, both female and male, to carry a small bag," Assistant Principal Tindyl Rund says. "It can hold pencils, a calculator, ChapStick — we showed the students several examples. We have termed them 'hand-size.' "

It seems to me there are things a girl needs to have with her.