I hope that you enjoyed my opponent’s speech as much as I did, yet I must disagree with what he has said. Children of this age, seem to be excessively distracted, and would not be able to focus as much as they possibly could; and allowing laptops in elementary schools would be adding fuel to the fire, in absence of strong monitoring. Also these children cannot be considered capable of handling their own assets at this early age. The chances of laptops getting stolen or damaged are too high, risky, and costly for parents. The necessity of a laptop in an elementary school is truly questionable. Laptop use can have bad effects on health (e.g. harmful to one’s eyes) as well as on academic skills (e.g. bad writing habits). Laptop brands would get an easy entry in the schooling sector for promoting their brands, and these children (and apparently their parents) would be targeted as marketing guinea-pigs. This would impose financial stress on parents, in order to satisfy the jealousy amongst children. The use of laptops can be disruptive, unhealthy, and can promote bad influences on young children. Finally, proper monitoring and website blocking is not always successful and it can prove a serious threat to the school policies.

Hannah