> > The main point that I think that most adults miss in this point is weight. Many higher level classes require 500 sheets of paper /class to be carried at one time. This is on top of text books. If you have not been to school in a while you may have forgotten how heavy paper is. I believe it to be stunting growth of students. As on I can say that my backpack has caused back problems. Laptops are quite a bit lighter. Now I should not say that computers completley replace paper, as computers will not be able to be read in 10000 years time, if history is to repeat. However in the K-12 grades, weight is the main issue, not posterity.
> > Steve G.
> > 11th Grade Student

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> Making students carry 40 pounds of textbooks every day may in fact be banned by the Constitution. It sounds "cruel and unusual" :)
> Also, there are a lot of other reasons to question whether textbooks really do the job we expect of them... look at some of our schools' test scores.
> The main thing to remember is this: skepticism about the laptop proposal doesn't mean supporting the status quo.

An e-book that can hold 100,000 printed pages at a cost of $300 makes an awful lot of sense to me. The American Chiropractic Association would probably love to see 100 lb. books.:)