Kennett high-schoolers will get Chromebooks

KENNETT, Mo. — Kennett High School principal Richie Leeker said all students will be issued a Chromebook laptop computer before the start of next year.

“We have been working on this plan for the last two years,” Leeker said, “making sure that all the necessary upgrades to the system have been made in preparation for the switch to the Chromebooks.”

The wireless infrastructure can handle 30 Chromebooks per classroom without bogging down the system.

“Of course there will be days that the Internet goes down,” the school district’s technology director, Brandon Burke, said. “We will train the teachers how to handle those situations the same way that we train them to handle everything else.”

The Chromebooks will be set up for students to use Google Classroom. All storage will be held in an online database, and Google Classroom accounts will be accessed by using a school-issued Gmail account, Leeker said.