Do the MCPS allow laptops in high school classes?

[Anonymous]

We're moving to the area and my teens currently must use laptops for all of their classes in MS and HS. Does anyone know if the high schools in Montgomery Cty allow kids to use/take notes on their personal laptops during school?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I'm an MCPS high school teacher. I don't know of any rule prohibiting this, although teachers may be taken aback by it. I have rarely seen students using a laptop for note taking in all my years teaching in MCPS (well over a decade). In fact, the only ones I remember in my classes used a laptop due to a disability, and that was part of their IEP.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if it is prohibited either, although I assume if you have accommodations they will permit it. I think the reality is the kids don't want to carry them around all day and there would be a loss/theft risk since they rarely use lockers. Plus the teachers at our school do a good job using the smart boards and posting notes to Edline.

[Anonymous]

My son takes his imac AND his ipad to school every day. Oh- and his iphone 4s too. It's never been an issue.

[Anonymous]

Your son hauls a desktop computer around high school all day? Is he at the Blair magnet or something like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your son hauls a desktop computer around high school all day? Is he at the Blair magnet or something like that?

Maybe Siri helps out with the logistics. "I'm looking for a cart on wheels and an elevator." "I've located 3 moving companies fairly close to you."

[Anonymous]

I assume the PP meant Macbook and not IMac. That would be a real pain the back to carry around a desktop all day!

[Anonymous]

I can tell you from personal experience that laptops are allowed if the parent absolves the school from responsibility as the result of theft. I can also tell you that the very few kids who do carry laptops are mocked as nerds and they tend to be Asian or Indian.

[Anonymous]

At the HS in which I teach no one carries laptops unless they have an assignment which requires it. Also, all the kids already carry HUGE backpacks and another 7-8 lbs would break them. I don't know of anything prohibiting it, but I don't know that it would be allowed out-right without some sort of discussion/ agreement w/ admin and teachers.

[Anonymous]

I should add that the "nerd" concept isn't even part of the vernacular at the W schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the HS in which I teach no one carries laptops unless they have an assignment which requires it. Also, all the kids already carry HUGE backpacks and another 7-8 lbs would break them. I don't know of anything prohibiting it, but I don't know that it would be allowed out-right without some sort of discussion/ agreement w/ admin and teachers.

In time hopefully text boox will be a thing of the past, and kids will carry only a tablet or an ultra thin laptop. Texts can be downloaded. Homework can be emailed and with wifi a printer can be in every room just in case something needs to be printed.

There really is no reason for kids to lug textbooks around anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I should add that the "nerd" concept isn't even part of the vernacular at the W schools.

Of course not. The students are too busy being stressed over getting 4.0's to please their over-achieving parents and to impress their friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I should add that the "nerd" concept isn't even part of the vernacular at the W schools.

Of course not. The students are too busy being stressed over getting 4.0's to please their over-achieving parents and to impress their friends.

You know it. And it's finals time so we are in high gear this week.