High School Textbooks

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Are you tired of kids complaining how their backpacks are too heavy? Think about it this way. The students in high school should be able to have netbooks instead of textbooks in their locker. Textbooks are too heavy, netbooks are faster and easier to use, and also much smaller than textbooks.
Netbooks are lighter than textbooks. The average weight of a netbook is between three fourths and two pounds. The average weight of a high school textbook is five pounds (Tablets). If high school students carry four textbooks in their book bags, that is twenty pounds, so if they have netbooks the book bags will be much easier to lift. When they have homework, unlike textbooks the netbook will be easier to carry home in a bookbag and less dangerous injuries to their backs. “According to data from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, over the period from 1994-2000 more than 23,000 youths ages 6 to 18 were treated in emergency rooms for backpack-related injuries” (Tablets). …show more content…

If you do it faster you can get a little more work done (Grimes). When you are through with all your work most of the time it looks neater than hand writing it. Also when using the netbooks they are much easier to handle than high school textbooks because of the difference in size.
When you are using a netbook its considerably smaller than a textbook and is easier to use because there are no pages to worry about ripping every time you read a story. You also have a lot more storage space in places such as lockers, desks, and backpacks because netbooks can hold hundreds of textbooks, homework, and quizzes for students and teachers (Tablets). Even in colleges students think textbooks should be replaced by netbooks. When remodeling libraries students that have graduated are more likely to get a better welcoming with more room for netbooks in the students lockers

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