[patmurraydev]

At our school in Australia, everyone was issued laptops last year. The rollout began with seniors (y12) and progressed down through the years. Within about 2 hours of having the machines most of my year had installed chrome, bypassed the web filtering, installed iTunes and copied their music to the laptops. The school knew immediately, and came around to the classrooms to inform everyone that we had now been restricted to 10GB of space on the laptops, and that they had removed iTunes and chrome.

For the remainder of the year everyone found ways to play games and to log onto various school servers and mess with things. It was more a point of we could. A lot of people still used pen and paper, or their own laptops. The most common use of the school issued laptops was free Internet, and thus youtube/ pandora.

From my understanding the younger years don't act such ways as we did being in year 12, and I think it's just a time thing. For them the school laptop is part of their schooling equipment, but for us we went through 10yrs of schooling without a laptop, so getting one was novel.