Source: Boston.com
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In Natick, a growing number of students are bringing their own laptops to class, because the district does not have enough modern machines to run the latest software. And in Boston, it is teachers who are bringing their own laptops to school to sidestep the system’s unreliable equipment.

Kay Lazar, Globe Staff

Blah…I wish schools had more funds. People are always reluctant to raise taxes, so maybe schools should try to hold their own fundraisers and take donations. The community has to get involved to better the school systems’ technology. The state and the city can and will only provide so much. Boston Latin Academy, for example, has a School Parents Council that tries to raise money for the school. We need programs like that in more and more places. We need fundraisers that are for the school and not just ones for the Senior Class, Junior Class, etc.

Definitely something I’m going to be thinking about as I plan on going into teaching. Referring to that quote above, I’d be one of those teachers that carried my own laptop. More so because I’d rather use a Mac than a PC, but part of the reason is because I don’t want to deal with their viruses or any possible slowness.