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The school boards of many school districts are looking into giving each student an individual computer. Giving each student a computer is not a good idea because the internet can be unreliable, students have to be responsible for the computer, and the school districts need a lot of money for all of these computers. The first reason students should not be given their own computers is because the internet is unreliable. If the internet goes down, the teachers need a new way to teach the students even though all of their work is on their computer. That would be much more work for the teachers to create two plans for each day just in case of the internet crashing. The second reason is that the students would have to be responsible for their computers. Students would have to be careful to not miss- place, or damage it. Also, every student would have to keep track of pen drives and which pen drive they put their recent work on because the computers do not have that much memory space. Finally, the schools would need a countless amount of money to buy and maintain that many computers. This might mean the school will have to take away some of their after school activities. Another reason is that many schools need the money they have to spend it on other educational purposes and not all on computers. Those are the three main reasons why schools should not give every student a computer. Those reasons are that the internet can not always be trustworthy, students would have to take care of the computers and that schools would need large funds to afford all of the computers.