The future has already been addressed. If you wanted a valid route, give the schools money so the schools can buy more computers and printers for the school to use. Every child having a laptop is ridiculous. It's a huge waste of money on a 'vision' that could be achieved through other, less controlling, means.
I never said I agreed to schools being able to control what was done to them after school hours; that is fucking ridiculous but the idea of equiping students with a tool that will prove essential in thier lifetime seems like a justifiable use of my money.
Yeah, win win 
There are any number of humanitarian things that this money could be better spent on. Nick's post sums up well the major flaws in the idea.
Handy having your boyfriend argue for you :p What would one propose for these 'humanitarian things'?
assignments already can be downloaded at schools because schools already have computers and printers. Your 'stuff like that' is crap. There is nothing wrong with the system previously in place, apart from the fact that children don't have access to plants vs zombies or call of duty during class time.
You can lose a sheet of paper quite easilly, but if everything is on your computer which you bring back and forth from school, you have the handout/ printout with you at all times.
On your games swipe, that's half the point. We have to deal with the distractions of this shit in real life, why shouldn't we teach kids about dealing with this shit from the very start.
As Nick said, computers are ubiquitous. Giving every child a laptop means nothing in the majority of settings as the vast majority of families already own a computer or three.
Most families have a heap of pencils, doesn't mean that you wouldn't get more pencils to go to school. Because laptops are expensive, the government to step in to help because of this.
The country would quickly be a bad bad place if wolfie was in control
ditto.
