Cape Coral High School has recently picked back up on another school year with an addition of around 600 new students.
Along with the crowded hallways and a packed lunchroom, there’s also issues with students getting chromebooks this year.
With about 2078 kids, Cape High is drowning in IT issues, charger shortages, and tech problems in need of a fix. From the outside in, it seems the problem is lack of preparation for the massive influx of students.
“I feel like there was a lack of chromebooks and chargers in the school and there wasn’t enough to go around for all of the new students,” said sophomore Andrew Alexandre.
Many students have had a bad experience getting their chromebooks, including sophomore Antonella Martin. “They knew there were going to be 600 new students coming in, so why didn’t they have everything prepared,” stated Martin.
This causes students to fall behind on school work, being that everything is online and on the chromebooks. “This shouldn’t have been my problem and shouldn’t have happened, I should have gotten a working chromebook the day we got them,” stated Martin.
Chromebooks are the key to how students get their work done. Everything revolves around the internet, which is why it’s important to have working chromebooks, let alone a chromebook in general.
“I needed my chromebook to do my assignments, it’s only the first week and i’m already behind because I don’t have access to a chromebook,” stated sophomore Abrielle Joseph.
Some students have had broken chargers, broken chromebooks, and are even being told that they already had a chromebook signed out when that wasn’t the case. “I couldn’t get a chromebook due to other complications with my middle school, which are not true,” expressed Alexandre.
Usually when a student gets assigned something to do in class they would do it, however, due to chromebook issues that isn’t the case this time. “I just think it’s so disruptive to have to do the assignments later than assigned, and having extra work at home isn’t okay. It’s not ideal,” explained sophomore Ana Guimaraes.
“Now I’m having to make up work afterschool when I have other plans and work all because they didn’t have the chromebooks ready in time,” stated Martin. Students have become irritated with their workload increasing at home while it could have been done during school hours. Some have missed tests, online readings, and more.
“I went back to the media center because my chromebook was broken and it caused me to miss my test and I had to make it up in a different period,” expressed Guimaraes.
“Education has been online and on chromebooks. Students use them pretty much for all their work and there’s never that much work on paper anymore.
“I mean all of our classes and our work is on the chromebook, everything functions on the chromebook nowadays,” stated Alexandre.
There’s no denying that chromebooks have been and probably always will be what we use at school. Not having these due to them being broken, having broken chargers, and not even getting one causes a damper on students getting their work done on time and efficiently.
