Why Should Laptops Be Allowed In School

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Should students be required to use laptops in high school? Some people would argue yes laptops are a good thing because they have all the information you need at the click of a button. However I do not think laptops are a good thing I do not believe students should be forced to get one. Now sometimes they are very helpful for research and typing long papers that would take really long to hand write. I believe that laptops are distracting in the classroom, inconvenient, and just to expensive for some people. In the classroom laptops can be helpful at sometimes. They can also be very distracting. For a lot of kids it's to tempting to be able to sit there and just play games on them all class period. Its also not uncommon to be searching something and you see an ad pop up that catches your eye so you click on it and completely lose your train of thought. I think there is too many irresponsible teenage kids that misuse them therefor turning them into more of a …show more content…

Yes its nice to be able to search up an answer on google instead of having to search for it in a book, but that only happens if it's working. A Lot of the time my computer will freeze right when I’m in the middle of an assignment causing me to have to restart it and lose all the work I just did. Theres also the endless amount of updates that it does. At least once a week I’ll be sitting in class waiting for my computer to finish its updates. While other kids are doing their work I'm still just waiting for my computer to finish updating so then I’m playing catchup the rest of the day. There is also those days when the wifi wont work or is going slow so you will be working good for 5 minutes then your computer won't do anything for 5 minutes. If we had regular pencil and paper with books to use for research we wouldn't have to worry about all these little computer malfunctions and things would run much

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