NEWPORT, N.C. - Michael Wood doesn't bring his laptop to school everyday, but he would.
“You can’t write as fast as you can type, you get everything down formatted highlight stuff, it’d just be a lot easier,” said Wood, using his computer to take classes for a local community college.
Croatan High currently has around 60 laptops and with 800 students there aren't enough to go around.
Principal Joe Poletti says increasing access to their network, which now can only handle a few personal laptops, would mean any student could bring their laptop to class....
Freeing up the laptops they already have, to go to those kids who may not have a laptop of their own.
“It is the world that they work in, it is the world that they will inherit, so the skills are natural to them,” said Poletti
It also opens up a world of possibilities as to where these kids can learn.
We found one student taking a class in Oklahoma and saw some kids participating in an online essay contest.
Personal laptops would give the students more choices when it comes to logging on to learn.
“You just have to figure out other ways of doing business,” Poletti said.
The plan has some setbacks.
“Where’s the recharging station going be for x amount of batteries, all of a sudden those power outlets in the wall become very precious,” he said.
Things Poletti says will be fixed in due time.
So what about that pesky thing called Facebook, Poletti says it will be blocked.
“Were trying to allow the students to jump on to that (secured) network,” Poletti said, “not the unfettered internet.”
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