Educational Responsibility

Educational Responsibility

            Education, safety, consistency, these are all things that schools provide for students around the world. The school is responsible to provide a high education to their students. In order to do this, students need a focused consistent education that includes the tools they use to aid their learning. Skagway High School should make it possible for students to take their regular school laptops, which they are accustomed to, rather than the bulky “tyranesoaruas” laptops (other wise known as T-laptops or Travel laptops).

            Average adults generally forget three things per day. (The Telegraph) After you walk out the door to go on a trip everyone has that “o shoot” moment when they know that they have forgotten something important that they will simply have to life without. For me, it is often a computer file that I forgot to transfer from one laptop to the next. Students enrolled in all four sports this year will be travelling on trips for an approximate total of ____ days this school year, sometimes a week at a time. (Skagway School) By forgetting one file you can get up to a week behind in school work, simply because you did not have time to, or forgot to, transfer files and were unable to work while traveling. Falling behind negatively impacts not only the student’s grades, but also their performance in sports.

Furthermore, when travelling, we often have to walk to and from ferry terminals, hotels, and airports, hauling our luggage with us. By changing our laptops from the light airs to the heavy travel lap tops more weight is added to our stuffed back packs. According to Science Daily, damage to muscles and the skeleton is the frequent consequence of carrying heavy backpacks. This especially affects growing teen’s bodies. By keeping the Mac book airs students would reduce their backpack weight by __________ lbs, thus saving them from considerable back issues in following years.

They are not only named T-rexs for their size, but also their slowness. When I opened my travel laptop to work on this essay it took four and a half minutes for it to boost up. The screen was locked for another two minutes. While this time does not seem large, it begins to add up as you need to research your paper, opening multiple tabs on a travel lap top causes it to slow down considerably.

            Finally, we do not have a one to one ratio of travel laptops to students. This causes an availability shortage. In the Basketball teams’ recent trip to Regionals students were forced to share laptops when travelling which was an issue for two reasons. The first being that we were housed separately from some of the people that we were sharing laptops with. The second was that we all needed to use the laptops at the same time. By allowing students to bring the Mac Book Airs on trips each student would have a laptop that only they were responsible for.     

There is a reason why dinosaurs are extinct. We need to let our old T-rex laptops retire and instead, looking toward the future, bring our school issued mac book airs wherever a school function is occurring. In order to save our education and our backs the Skagway School Board should change their policy to allow for students to take their Mac Book Airs on school trips.