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Information Technology High School is dedicated towards using computers as tools in all subjects taught at the school. This was implemented in 2004 when the administration offered to distribute Macintosh G4 iBooks to the student body as a means of encouraging laptop usage for classes. Unfortunately, the laptops were later confiscated after many students were found to have misused them during class for entertainment purposes rather than school work.
From 2004 to 2006 the school's website also granted the students personal webpages where they could implement HTML source code commands, to customize the display and view of their work online. However, the webpages were soon eliminated as the administration could not support the large amount of bandwidth to load certain webpages containing large amounts of streaming music, high resolution images and web apps that students linked onto their sites. The issue of copyright infringement was also addressed.
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