Arrowhead Going Paperless?

Arrowhead High School is planning on requiring all Arrowhead students to have a laptop that they are able to use at school by next school year.  Some students are for it, some are against it, and some are in between.  Sophomores, Lane Kohl and Kristen Boucher, have opinions about this topic.

“I don’t think it is a good idea because I think there will be a lot of theft and not everyone can afford one,” Boucher says.

The prices for a laptop are around $300 from Best Buy.  According to Kohl, who is part of the principal’s cabinet, Arrowhead plans on offering student loans for the students who don’t want to pay for a laptop.

“I think the students will be irresponsible and immature with the laptops.  Some students might steal them from other students, and it would also be annoying to carry them around everywhere,” Boucher says.

Unlike Boucher, Kohl has a different opinion: “I am on the fence about having all of the students with their own laptops because there are a lot of advantages, but also a lot of disadvantages,” Kohl says.

Being a part of the principal’s cabinet, Kohl says the principal hopes to be completely paperless by 2016.

“It would be nice to have everything be in one place so that students wouldn’t have a reason for not having their homework with them, however I think going completely paperless would be too much,” Kohl says.

“The only advantage for having your own laptop is that since everyone has their own device there wouldn’t be any issues with getting a computer in the lab or the library,” Boucher says.