The laptops come with several games and there's nothing stopping students from putting others on their hard drives. When teachers walk by, a student can close down the game with a mouse click and quickly return to a note-taking program. Expensive investment During lunch, the freshmen are required to lock their laptops in school lockers. At one table, a group of Cristina's friends jokes about their parents' early anxieties about the laptops' fragility. It's so gentle.
Laptops are an expensive investment.
David Link, whose daughter Roberta is a freshman, said that Ursuline is lucky to have parents who can afford to take the laptop plunge. It is a tool for mankind. Teacher Jean Underwood spends the first hour of the class teaching students how to write Spanish symbols on their laptops. Ms. Underwood says that she is awaiting a CD-ROM version of the Spanish textbook, complete with practice exercises that will make paper workbooks almost unnecessary. Students will also be able to do their oral lessons on the computer.