TUPELO, Miss. - MacBooks for everyone! Students welcomed the announcement with roaring cheers, but some parents and guardians are meeting the idea with hesitation.

"A question that I've been asked most often, so far, is how are you going to stop them from going to the bad sites when they take these computers home at night," Tupelo Public School District Superintendent, Dr. Randy Shaver says.

In addition to questions concerning access to the entire world, parents are wanting to know who's responsible for damages and repairs.

"We issue text books now, and at the end of the year we take them back up.  We code them as to the condition we issued them in and then we code them again as to the condition that they are in when they're returned, and if there are excessive damages beyond normal wear and tear then we charge the student for that.  We'll do the same thing with the laptops," Dr. Shaver explains.

School officials are considering a possible self-insurance plan. It would cost a student $75, or less, over a three year period. If the laptop is returned undamaged at the end of the three years the student would get their money back.

But before the computers are even issued students and their parents will go through a training course.

"That course that they all have to complete, the 'Care and Feeding of Your Laptop,' they all learn responsible use of it and that's not just responsible use of where you go on the Internet, it's responsible use on how you take care of the device," Dr. Shaver says.

Having implemented a similar program in his previous district, Dr. Shaver says students are known to take good care of a portable computer because they enjoy using them.

And as for that first question:

"Simply having a lap top does not mean that we're going to give everyone open access to everything on the Internet," Dr. Shaver says. "We have very good, secure filters in our school system. When that computer goes home at night it's being served by the server in your home, it's not being served by the server at school. So we're asking parents to take the responsibility as they do with their own computers now."

Tupelo school officials say only about 20% of the work done on the laptops will require the Internet.

85% of the district's students already have Internet access at home. For the other 15%, who do not, officials are asking the community to step up and help, calling out to local businesses to provide Internet access.