School Laptops

At our middle school we have these very high tech, efficient laptops that are very useful to all the teachers and students. We had just got these brand new lap tops for seventh and eighth grade students to make it easier to work. For our laptops there is an option to put it in tablet mode. Tablet mode is where you flip the laptop screen down and it would be like writing on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, there have been many students that have left them in tablet mode while they are in the hallway and while walking in the hall all of their laptop screens have cracked. IT, our technology department, has come up with a solution which states that we should carry the laptop by its handle so that the teachers can monitor your laptop while the students are walking in the halls. However, if you would bump into a person or a wall your laptop would have less protection and a greater chance of breaking, without in your laptop bag. Therefore we need to carry our laptops in their bags.

Fifteen laptops screens have broken in the bags, while they are in tablet mode. IT feels that we need to carry our laptops by the handles. For the first week of trying this new technique three laptop screens have cracked from bumping into people and dropping them. While carrying the laptops the rubber handle that connects the handle to laptop is slowing wearing off. When you are holding the laptop in the hall, it sways from side to side. While doing that it’s very easy for it to hit an object and be damaged. In addition it’s not safe because there’s no protection or barrier to protect your laptop from any hard surface your laptop would or could hit. Also if you would have your laptop while you are holding by the handle and it would fall it would stand a greater chance of breaking more than just your screen. However, if you would have your laptop in its bag it would stand a greater chance of not breaking.  

Obviously, our laptop bags are for storage and protection. We should be able to carry our laptops in there bag for safe keeping and for extra hands for supplies. Also there will be less of a threat of cracking or breaking because the bag is padded. If the teachers would check the laptops before they leave for their next class the students would be able to take their laptops in the bag. In addition would have more of an ability to have more space to carry your books and utensils. Unlike holding it by its handle in the bag there is a thicker barrier and more protected if it would have to fall off of your desk or table.

Since IT made the new rule that you have to carry your laptop by the handle many people are just ignoring that and they are still carrying it in their bag, so now the new rule is you can’t bring your laptop bag to classes. Now that we don’t have the option of our laptop bags, we can’t carry useful things like laptop charger and stylus. IT wouldn’t let us use our laptop bags then we couldn’t bring our charger to class in fifth hour and resource when your battery is low or dead, and it’s just another thing that you have to carry if you wouldn’t have your bag. Your stylus is important in most classes to draw and take notes and your bag would be useful in that situation.  In the first place you should just be able to take your laptop bag even if you would be holding the laptop by the handle. If they would let us carry the laptop bag it would be easy and more efficient way of doing things.

Now you see why you should carry your laptop in its bag; it’s safer, more efficient, more protected, and more useful way of carrying your laptop around school. Carrying it by the handle will cause it to wear and eventually break off. Putting the laptop in the bag will prevented damage and bigger expenses of damage. Having your laptop bag on you at all time will give you access to the charger and stylus. In the end it would be better and more efficient way to put your laptop in the bag and take your laptop bag where ever you go.