Should Students Textbooks be replaced with Laptops?

   Studies show that every year, millions of young students develop back problems due to the vast amount weight of their backpacks. When you take a look in the average students backpack the majority of this weight is from heavy textbooks and notebooks. Not only focusing on the weight of the books that the students a loaded down with every day, but with the amount of paper used to create these books and notebooks. Millions of trees are cut down just to make workbooks and textbooks for schools. While students continue to have severe back pains at early ages, the technology world has developed in exceedingly creating compact, light, laptops; some weighing as little as two pounds. After this will we continue to place the strain on the growing backs of students? Or should schools consider replacing the heavy textbooks and notebooks with lighter portable laptops?

   The heavy weight of a backpack often causes long-term health issues and back pain for students. Asides from notebooks and binders, students also have to carry pencils, pens, and spare paper. And let’s not forget that many students bring lunch from home. The weight all adds up. The average high school student’s backpack weights between ten and twenty-five pounds, while the average laptop weights between three and eight pounds. Having a laptop in your backpack instead of overweighed textbooks can definitely make a difference.
   Switching from textbooks and notebooks to laptops will lessen the loads on our backs and it has many other benefits. The only question left is; can they rise to the occasion? Definitely, if students truly want to replace textbooks and notebooks with laptops, they will have to show responsibility to earn them.