The Number Of Damaged Or Lost Laptops At LTHS

LA GRANGE, IL — Lyons Township High School assigned laptops to every student last fall, getting done in one year what had been originally scheduled for three years, an official said this week.

In a memo, Scott Eggerding, director of curriculum and instruction, called the program assigning Chromebooks to the school's more than 4,000 students "generally successful."

The school was able to accomplish this task, despite the global computer chip shortage, he said.

Throughout last semester, about 100 Chromebooks, or 2.5 percent, were sent out for various repairs that could not be completed in-house, Eggerding said. Just a half dozen were lost or damaged beyond repair last semester, he said.

The most common hardware issue for the first semester was lost or misplaced Chromebook chargers, Eggerding said.