Can parents decline the laptop?
Some parents have asked if they can decline the laptop on the basis of their personal preferences. Reasons may include a concern that their student would be singled out as having a laptop by others who do not have a laptop in the neighborhood or that they do not trust their child to be responsible enough to care for the laptop. Parents would be able to decline the laptop by not signing the necessary paperwork for their student and thus prevent their student from being able to use the laptop and complete work with the laptop while not at school. The student would still need the laptop at school so an extra burden of security, charging, storage, etc… will be placed on the district for these cases but the laptop would be at school for the student to use daily. The negative impact of this decision is that the student, and the family, lose the ability to use the laptop at home or around town. Teachers will have an expectation of being able to assign digital homework for students to comple
Some parents have asked if they can decline the laptop on the basis of their personal preferences. Reasons may include a concern that their student would be singled out as having a laptop by others who do not have a laptop in the neighborhood or that they do not trust their child to be responsible enough to care for the laptop.
