User talk:Aefrankowski

Dear Superintendant

Throw Out the Textbooks Bring In the Ipad

The CW, news channel, did a segment on how kids are getting osteoarthritis from their heavy backpacks. As a fellow student, I know the pain of having that really heavy backpack and it is not a good feeling. Research from Consumer-Product-Health-Association shows that 7000 kids a year are rushed to the emergency room because of heavy backpacks. Not only are kids having bad backs but it is affecting their posture. A student that carries a 10-12 pound backpack a day is slowly but surely hurting his posture. As the year goes by the constant stress on his back will affect not only how he stands but how he sits in a chair. The weight of the backpack can cause the spine to weaken and bend. This problem may not go away and last their whole life. I saw a man who was so crouched over it looked like he was looking down to tie his shoe. He had a sad and frustrated look on his face. I don’t want any other fellow students to have this issue or students to come. A new device made by apple could solve all these problems and more. It’s a tablet called the Ipad 2. This tablet has the length and width of a textbook and is only as thick as a 1 subject notebook. The Ipad is thin but has a great deal of power. The Ipad lets you have apps which you download off the app store. Textbook companies are putting their books in apps for a few dollars online to be downloaded. You pay a small fee but then you can have the whole book right at your fingertips. My group and I think that the whole school should have Ipads. The parents will pay a fee of about $500.00 the first year for the ipad then a few more dollars for each textbook. But, in a few years and threw high school, the ipad will pay for itself. The Ipad would allow you to eliminate those heavy text books and let your students carry the weight of 1 pound instead of 10-12. Not only does the Ipad allow you to download textbooks but many more things. One popular feature is the calculator app. This lets you do anything you would normally do with a scientific calculator. This is a nice feature because your child doesn’t have to worry about keeping track of his calculator or it breaking. As they get older and need a graphing calculator, Apple is working on a free upgrade. This upgrade would let you have the ability of a graphing calculator. It is set to release in a few months. Another concern parents may have is their children playing games during class. Apple made an app to help eliminate this concern. A teacher will enter a USB code that comes with each of the Ipads into her own. Then the teacher, can put a lock on anything that is not school related until she is finished teaching. When class ends she will unlock the Ipad and everything will be back to normal. If a teacher forgets to unlock the ipad once a student leaves her room the wifi will go away and the students ipad will automatically unlock. Not only do you get all these features with your Ipad, but once a student gets home his Ipad is like everyone else’s that don’t go to school. They can download games, music, and more videos. The Ipad will allow students to do much more than an old textbook would have, while also protecting a student’s health. This would give the students more energy and the student would have more of a positive and happy feel towards school. They would not be exhausted from a backpack full of heavy textbooks. I hope you consider this plan to help students and parents who need the extra money. I would like this plan to go around