The binders are bought; papers are in their folders, pens of black, blue and red still fresh inside their boxes, pencils unsharpened and new backpacks ready to lug folders, future homework-and possibly a Kindle?
Its official: Clearwater High School has forgone the textbooks and instead has adapted to using the kindle. No more does the evil that is heavy books weigh down on our backs, no more of the deadly paper cuts and vandalized pages, now it is all electronic.
“The use of the kindles would be the next step in the use of technology in the classrooms,” Palm Harbor Principal Ms. Christen Tonry said. “My big concern is students keeping up with them or not losing them.”
Clearwater has taken the following approach; if a student habitually loses or damages the Kindles, they are taken away. If the Kindle is broken or lost, they have to pay $30 dollars to replace them.
“I think it’s amazing,” said sophomore Morgan Lopez, “Why can’t they do that here, I wish they would.”
Many have seen the glimpse of the future where (dare I say it) papers are obsolete and the system is more electronically dependent. Perhaps our school and other Florida schools will rely on the Kindle for reference and textbook purposes, make history, and lead our generation into an electronic regime.
So hey, why not use the Kindle instead?