Carrying a bunch of textbooks and notebooks everyday home from school can be very tiring considering that students in high school do not take a school bus home or get a ride home, but walk and/or take public transportation to get home. “Half of all children suffer back pain by the age of 14 and doctors are reporting a rise in cases of spinal abnormalities in pupils, including disfiguring curvatures known as scoliosis.’’-John Stevens. Students are practically forced to bring their heavy textbooks home or else they can fail their specific assignment, which is insane because many students are suffering from back pain on a daily basis and can even get a spine disorder known as scoliosis at a very young age. If we were to replace these heavy textbooks, workbooks and notebooks with notebook computers, students would be going home with laptops that do not weigh nearly as much as an entire backpack full of textbooks. Lighter backpacks result in fewer back problems for teens that need to take home materials for multiple subjects each night.