Milton High issues 'netbooks'

MILTON - Shaina Levesque didn't have to ruffle through her book bag Thursday to find her social studies project.

[sam]

if i may say. the netbooks really help us fresh man with our home/school work. I have already done 2 projects and have gotten them in on time. and i dont have to use the excuse i left it at home or something like that. me and shaina are best friends and we love having our netbooks. We get told that we are not responsible enough to have them or that we fool around to much with them. But i feel like this is a test for us freshman at milton to see how responsible we can be.

[Freshman mom]

sam wrote:

if i may say. the netbooks really help us fresh man with our home/school work. I have already done 2 projects and have gotten them in on time. and i dont have to use the excuse i left it at home or something like that. me and shaina are best friends and we love having our netbooks. We get told that we are not responsible enough to have them or that we fool around to much with them. But i feel like this is a test for us freshman at milton to see how responsible we can be.

If one advantage of having the netbooks, is that they help with a student's writing skills, sam is not demonstrating that they work very well. Technology, i.e. texting, i.m.ing and the like have made our young people very lazy in their writing skills. They do not capitalize or punctuate properly and the grammar and sentence structure is painful to read. I am not blaming this on the netbook program, which I am in favor of. If the students want to tell the world how great the netbook program is, they should proofread their posts and be extra careful that the world is seeing the results of a beneficial program. No capitals, misspelling, bad grammar and sentence structure do not make the case.