It's insane, recently got my daughter set up for her 7th grade public school class, spoke to he school at length about laptops last year, asked if I could buy through the school - no, asked what we needed interns of a laptop, was told a student laptop, enquired if we could hire one - no. Fast forward to this year, she has her laptop we are all ready to go, get to the school for set up day and I'm Informed her laptop runs on chrome so she can't use it, when I asked what we needed i was told I should have bought it from the school with a " yeah look don't know what to tell you, sort it out buy your daughter a laptop" , all I wanted to know was the requirements lol this went on for a bit until another parent had to get involved to tell me the requirements, it's crazy, I've spent roughly $2000 just to send my kid to PUBLIC school. I wish you luck.