I'll call you spoiled then, and this is coming from a 20 year old.
You don't need a laptop in High School unless you have a learning disorder. Simple.
You don't need a laptop in College/University unless you have a learning disorder or your major specifically requires you have one. Unless you go to a cheap ass school, they'll have a computer lab (probably more than one) if you need to desperately use a computer while you're at school.
I DID have a laptop in highschool, and I would have NEVER brought it with me. Nobody brought their laptop. Why? Because everyone knew it was stupid. Yes, even kids taking all AP and honors classes, before some of you complain. I did very well in my advanced classes using a pen and paper to take notes when I needed to.
If you're having difficulty keeping up in a HS class without using your laptop to takes notes, I wouldn't recommend going to college.
Learn how to take effective notes (that means not writing down every word out of the professors mouth), and you won't even be writing much with a pen and paper.
I never said it was a smart idea or a stupid idea, I merely just stated that it was ridiculous that he claimed that you're spoiled if you bring a laptop to high school. I can keep up fine in school and I've never brought my laptop to school apart from one day when I used it for a presentation in 8th grade.
I thought it was dumb that he used the 'In my day....' excuse because in the future they might have some flashy holographic screens and then we'd have to say, 'In my day, we had to use these things called laptops and our brains, you kids are so spoiled and you NEVER need to have those funky computer things, just use keys and a screen! We never had things like that and we got along just fine!'
Technology is moving forward and you can't ignore it, bringing laptops to your school is very common now AND some teachers have classes where it's extremely handy, like my Language class where we had to do a written assignment, but we had to go to the library to type, but we needed classroom resources and we had to travel back and forth, and it would've been handy to have a laptop then.
His grandparents could've said 'In my day, sonneh boy, we had to use a feather and ink to write our notes and we got along just fine, you don't need these snazzeh fountain pens or ball-points, you're just spoiled!'
And I'm sure he would've disagreed with that.
