Individual Effort not Mass Punishment (Score 0)

When I went to college the first week we were visited by the dean and told, if you want to graduate you have to try but 70% of you wont be here to graduate. About 10% of us graduated on time as software engineers. The others left for numerous reasons, cheating, grades, too difficult, partying more important, lack of interest, life, etc... Most of us had our own laptops for the last two years and though it wasnt required I dont know how I could have completed 25 to 30 credit hours per term and work a full time job without it. I maintained my own laptop as did the others and frankly given my profession if I couldnt maintain it I shouldnt graduate anyway. If there was porn on it then pat me on the back for finding time to look at it. So with all that blah blah blah, my thoughts are take the laptops off the budget. If they need it let them get a job and buy one. If its broke let them manage getting it fixed, thats a true life skill these days anyway, a valuable lesson. If they surf porn on it, dont shake their hands. If they use it to cheat, kick them out, tell them they cant use a laptop on campus again, fine them, or all the above.

Big business wont tolerate porn or cheating with company assets so pass that lesson forward in school as well. If you catch em deal with em but dont punish those that are benefitting honestly from the laptops.

As far as the school not maintaining a network..... join the 21st century, maybe its the schools that need to learn a little, build an adequate network and pay a couple tree hugging nerds a low salary to maintain it. Their everywhere!
All in all my laptop was my greatest tool in school.... well next to Mt Dew!?!?