Canton Country Day School leaps to laptops

Canton Repository

It’s 8 p.m.

And instead of watching “The Vampire Diaries,” your eighth-grader is holding a video conference on Skype. She’s joined remotely with a group of students from her class.

While it seems like something students will be doing in a rather distant future, it’s today’s reality for students at Canton Country Day School.

On Monday, every student in grades four through eight received his or her own laptop. The one-to-one laptop program involves about half of the school’s student body of about 200.

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