Our school has been given a grant to make necessary improvements to its facilities. We can spend it on new books for the library or on more computers. Our school already has books in its library and it already has computers. Since we have more books than computers, I think that new computers will benefit students more.

Computers can access up-to-date information on the Internet. Right now, the reference books in our library are very outdated. Our encyclopedia set is eight years old. But if every student had access to a computer, we all could have the latest facts and figures on everything.

Unfortunately, providing every student with a computer means we need a lot of computers. Right now, the ratio of computers to students is one to twelve. This means each student gets to work on the computers only three or four times a week. But if every student had a computer, everyone could use them whenever they want.

“Information on demand” should be our slogan. Students today need lots of information right away. Life is too short for waiting. It takes forever to identify a book that you think might have the information you need. Then you have to go to the library and look for the book. Usually it’s not even there.

With a computer, searching for information is instantaneous. If we all had computers, we could access more information and access it faster. We could have all the information we need for our schoolwork. We could all improve our grades. For these reasons, I feel that purchasing computers would benefit us more than buying more books.