All children should be given a free laptop when they start high school. Do you agree or disagree?

Some believe that every pupil entering secondary school should be gifted a free of charge laptop. I disagree with

this

because some children can afford to buy their own and the government cannot afford to do so. Those from wealthy families should not be given a complimentary

computer

a machine for performing calculations automatically

Computer

.

This

would not be fair as

this

would result in money being taken away from poorer juveniles to give it to people who already have enough. If

this

proposed scheme was done on a means-tested basis, rich kids would not get anything and

this

capital could be diverted to those in

more need

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most need

.

For example

, in the United Kingdom, children whose parents are on state benefits receive subsidised school dinners but those with working parents do not. The state would

also

find it extremely difficult to finance

such

an initiative. The Education Department, like every other government department, has a limited budget, and if funds were spent on laptops, they would have to be diverted from other more worthy areas,

such

as staff.

This

would mean that class sizes would have to increase since the budget would not be available for teachers, or even the classrooms themselves.

For instance

, most classes in

developed

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developing

countries have more than 30 in them because of the lack of budget for qualified teachers and teaching assistants. In conclusion, all freshmen starting high school should not be given a free laptop because

this

would not be fair

on

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to

for

poorer students and there is not enough money for

this

project.