Dear Editor:
I am a student in Grade 8, and I am here to tell you about the use of Chromebooks in school today. I think Chromebooks should be treated better here’s why.
Firstly, my school (John Black Public School) has an insanely low budget. We don’t even have enough money for paper and pencils.
I don’t know if there’s much going around the Upper Grand District School Board, but I know people are messing with Chromebooks in my school.
People in my school are changing the keys around on Chromebooks, that’s the most they are doing in my school. But multiple computers have been broken randomly and have gone missing.
Secondly, people mess around with Chromebooks all the time now because there is a TikTok trend where people stick led pencils and other foreign objects in Chromebooks. It usually ends with sparks or the computer exploding and catching on fire.
If this continues schools will have no Chromebooks to use for people that are just trying to work.
Overall, computers are a really important asset of schools and without computers it would make it 10 times harder to do school work.
Those are my reasons why I think computers should be treated better.
Austin Nelissen,
Fergus