Should Students Be Able To Charge Chromebooks In Schools?

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A student was sitting in class and a teacher said Everyone get your chromebooks out. The student opened their chromebook and it wouldn’t turn on. The student raised their hand and said My chromebook is uncharged. The teacher told the student oh well you have to work and watch from another student's chromebook. Having students do this can be a problem because students then can’t work at their own pace and usually don’t work as well because their not hands on and in front of them to focus on. If a student's chromebook isn’t charged or unuseable they should be able to get their charger from their locker and be able to charge their chromebook. When students have their chromebooks right infront, 67% of students say that they are more focused and may have a better education based off of learning of their chromebook. So if students say this and the school rules don’t allow students to use their chargers during school, they may not be able to focus as well …show more content…

Students should be able to charge their chromebooks during school, only if it is fully dead and unusable. One reason for changing the rules is because if students aren’t enforcing it why should we have it. You can obviously look around a room in the school and see that students will be in a corner charging their chromebooks. We should change the rule but have some scenarios to it, like only having them have their chargers in their book bags or even just in their lockers. We could even suggest that if a student's chromebook is completely dead and is not useable they may charge it in the classroom with permission. Another thing is students shouldn’t be punished because they didn't have their chromebook charged, sometimes you have obstacles that you can’t get pasted. So, we could suggest that if you have had more than 10 uncharged chromebook moments and you DIDN”T have your charger with you, you could possibly get a detention depending what the situation

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