I can see a laptop being used in a high school setting but in middle school your just asking for trouble. First off we want learning to take place in the class room... giving kids laptops with wireless cards... can you say lan party. And theft is another big issue. Do you want to be a kid caring around a $1200 laptop? (When I was in school I would forget where I put my lunch.) Last of all the money should go back to the colleges where it came from. The governor found it necessary to cut funding to public universities in Michigan quite a bit. I'm glad to see it's getting used in a productive and intelligent way. j/k
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I can see a laptop being used in a high school setting but in middle school your just asking for trouble. First off we want learning to take place in the class room... giving kids laptops with wireless cards... can you say lan party. And theft is another big issue. Do you want to be a kid caring around a $1200 laptop? (When I was in school I would forget where I put my lunch.) Last of all the money should go back to the colleges where it came from. The governor found it necessary to cut funding to public universities in Michigan quite a bit. I'm glad to see it's getting used in a productive and intelligent way. j/k