Editor,

REFERENCE IS made to the article, "AG report: Reb to follow up on laptops project saga” (The New Times, May 30).

I think some of the quoted school officials should not have stated the following two views:

One of the school heads said the laptops are kept at school and locked up in boxes: My point of view is that the main difference between a desktop computer and a laptop is the ability of the user to move with the gadget. The advantage of a laptop is that it allows the user the flexibility to use it anywhere and anytime.

Those laptops should be distributed to the learners and they should be able to use them at anytime and in any place for the purpose of their studies, instead of being kept at schools like the traditional desk top computers.

Another official is quoted saying "The books are kept at school because they can be stolen by the learners”: How can anyone steal something from oneself? If they distribute the books to the learners, the latter will consider the books as their own learning materials, and in that case they will never still them because they will be their own.

In addition, the learners will have full access to those books, instead of having limited access to the small school libraries which are not always open, and sometimes so far from the learners’ geographical location.

Valentin Uwizeyimana, Stellenbosch, South Africa