As a kid growing up in this century, I am more than blessed with all the technology around me.

Technology is great: it allows communication, easy access to information and entertainment.

Technology in a school setting makes things easier. It makes it easier to do projects, look up information, play online games like Kahoot!, it provides easy access to online information and things we do not have in the classrooms and makes it easier for the teachers to grade assignments.

But technology also makes it easier for parents to track grades, missing assignments, to yell at you when you get home and makes it easy for teachers to lose things and mix up grades.

Technology is too involved with school work.

Sure, Google, Yahoo, Kahoot! and other websites make learning easier, because if you do not understand something, you just search it and in seconds, you know what you are talking about. However, because of Skyward parents have access to and are constantly aware of everything you do at school is a little excessive, considering they did not have their parents checking their grades at all times.

I’m not saying that technology needs to be taken away in schools – absolutely not – but it is a little too important in today’s school system.

Teachers can also get their students mixed up and give the wrong person the wrong grade, or with emailing them stuff from personal emails, they do not know whose project is whose and count off points on your grade.

Technology also has its downfalls, like computer crashes, no Wifi connection or the computers simply not working that day.

With the Bring Your Own Device policy, problems like computers crashing and not working are things of the past. However, the issue of Wifi still remains.

With potentially eight-hundred students all on the same Wifi network, problems such as not being able to connect and poor signals in certain rooms arise.

Another issue with technology is Blackboard.

Blackboard is a website where teachers from each class can post updates, homework reminders, documents or class work.

Blackboard is a really useful thing to those who need reminded of homework, but is a pain to others whose phones vibrate off their desks.

The Blackboard app is also not able to open on certain phones, like a Kyocera Rise. Likewise, not all students have phones or something to access blackboard with on their own.

These students should not lose points on their assignments just because they do not have the ability to access the information at home for homework or when the teacher does not supply the student with the means of accessing the proper information.

All in all, technology in school is a good thing, but the use and importance in school systems is excessive.