Secondary school students should be allowed laptops at school.

I'd like to apologize for my slow response. Here we go, 1. It is not rare, if the students put their water bottle on the floor, they might accidentally kick it so they rarely put their water bottles on the floor. If they didn't close the water bottle tight enough, and they put their laptop and water bottle in their backpack, the laptop will still damaged. My point is there are a lot of possibilities, and we can't really avoid it. Don't for get about the possibilities of falling. 2. Even if the students can choose what kind of book they buy, the school make some rules about it. It is more acceptable for parents if the school ask the students to buy books made of recycled paper (which is cheaper than ordinary books) instead of forcing them to buy laptops (which is expensive, specially for middle to low class family) 3. Even if not all schools have locker, most school still do. Usually lockers are 12" wide and 12" or 15" deep, sometimes 18". It is enough to store 6 to 7 textbooks. And do you really think school who doesn't have money to build locker have enough money to buy laptops to lend to the students? Next, 1. Not all country is rich enough to provide schools with laptops. Example, do you really think Zimbabwe have enough money to provide their schools with laptop when their people are starving? I think my opponent shouldn't narrow his/her rebuttal to some country only since he/she didn't set any limitation in the first round, 2. Even if the school provide IT office, what is lost is lost. And students usually realize the fact that their laptops have virus when it's all too late. Actually in Spain 69% of computers have at least infected by virus once, in Canada 68%, and USA 63% (source: statisa.com) 3. The laptops make students become lazier. Even if they copy their friend's assignment, they at least still write and still read it even a little, instead of just copy paste and change the name. I believe the teacher knows the student's handwriting so usually they copy their friend's assignment with their own hand. 4. It is still hard for them, as their eyes are old. We know how hard it is teaching our parents or grandparents how to use handphones right? Students who can afford laptops usually already have laptops or computers in their home, and I believe they use it in daily basis. So it is unnecessary for the school to forcing all students to buy laptop. 5. Well, since you've said it yourself. But let's think again, which one makes you easier to concentrate ? A laptop or a pencil and a textbook? There's just too much temptation if the students are allowed to bring laptops. If you are talking to your friends in the middle of class, your teacher will know and scold you, but if you're playing video games on your laptop how should the teacher know? There are 30 or more laptops in the class, that's why your example can't be applied. And now to my arguments 1. Instead of buying 30 laptops or more for the students, school can buy just 3 or 4 laptops and only use it when necessary (ex. Presentation) and the students can bring flash disk to school (cheaper and lighter). It is the same with online notes you mentioned. Notes can be accessed at home, and you don't have to bring your laptop to school for this.