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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad that our private school requires laptops starting in 6th grade, which we pay for (or FA pays for) and each kid gets the same one.  The school has a tech department that maintains the laptops and loads them all with the right software.

The laptop is a great learning tool, as is Schoology (which is the program the school uses for managing assignments, etc).

I wish all schools could have this.[/quote]

I wouldn't agree to buying a computer for the school to load their own software and monitor/control.  That is our job as parents.

OP, I would get a basic few hundred dollar laptop to write papers/research on at that age.[/quote]

I'm entirely happy to let the school do just that.  They can get bulk deals on both web-nanny software and educational software - I'll let them deal with tech support.  At the end of 4 years, either I'll wipe the laptop or buy a new one (after 4 years, anything other than an apple, and even many of those, are obsolete).

To OP, I'm assuming a laptop is neither required by the school nor specifically supported through any kind of centralized system.  In my view a HSer in this day and age should have their own computer that they have access to full time, not just sharing a family computer.  Buy what you can afford, even if it's just a chromebook.  If your child wants to produce movies and needs the latest, that's a different conversation.[/quote]

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