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Jerimaiah, Samia, and Maliek are excited to research ideas and create experiments for their Science Fair projects. Maliek wants to do something with rockets, Samia is into volcanoes, and Jeremiah thinks it would be cool to see how sugar crystals grow into rock candy. As students at Blaine Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, they’ve learned that technology is a gateway to the world—experiencing learning through the Covid 19 pandemic proved how important access to dependable tech is. Learning over the past year wasn’t easy, but their issued laptops supported virtual and hybrid learning, and despite some frustrating circumstances, they thrived. I want to ensure that each fifth grader at Blaine always has access to a functional laptop in school. Ideally, the children will bring their laptops to school in September. Realistically though, many will have no access to technology at all. Of the laptops that were distributed when virtual learning began, many are now lost and broken and will not be replaced. How do I know this? I teach math and science to Blaine’s fifth graders. Over the past year, many of my students have been forced to work on family computers, personal tablets, and phones—yes, they are attending class and doing schoolwork on cell phones! The reasons for the laptop loss and disrepair are as varied as the children themselves. In a perfect world, computers would be treated with kid gloves, but even in a perfect world, ten-year olds will be ten-year olds. In a perfect world chocolate milk wouldn’t spill onto the keyboard and little brothers wouldn’t step on the screen; in a perfect world, a child wouldn’t need to move from her family rowhouse, to her grandma’s apartment, to a shelter, all in the span of three months. Laptops at school will maximize learning!

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Jerimaiah, Samia, and Maliek are excited to research ideas and create experiments for their Science Fair projects. Maliek wants to do something with rockets, Samia is into volcanoes, and Jeremiah thinks it would be cool to see how sugar crystals grow into rock candy. As students at Blaine Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, they’ve learned that technology is a gateway to the world—experiencing learning through the Covid 19 pandemic proved how important access to dependable tech is. Learning over the past year wasn’t easy, but their issued laptops supported virtual and hybrid learning, and despite some frustrating circumstances, they thrived. I want to ensure that each fifth grader at Blaine always has access to a functional laptop in school. Ideally, the children will bring their laptops to school in September. Realistically though, many will have no access to technology at all. Of the laptops that were distributed when virtual learning began, many are now lost and broken and will not be replaced. How do I know this? I teach math and science to Blaine’s fifth graders. Over the past year, many of my students have been forced to work on family computers, personal tablets, and phones—yes, they are attending class and doing schoolwork on cell phones! The reasons for the laptop loss and disrepair are as varied as the children themselves. In a perfect world, computers would be treated with kid gloves, but even in a perfect world, ten-year olds will be ten-year olds. In a perfect world chocolate milk wouldn’t spill onto the keyboard and little brothers wouldn’t step on the screen; in a perfect world, a child wouldn’t need to move from her family rowhouse, to her grandma’s apartment, to a shelter, all in the span of three months. Laptops at school will maximize learning!

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