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ATTLEBORO - Bishop Feehan High School held its second Annual Back to School Night where parents ran through a mini schedule of their children's day and listened to Principal Bill Runey present Feehan's new laptop program, FLIP, Feehan Laptop Integration Program.

Runey announced that over the past summer the Feehan campus was installed with a WiFi system, making it the only school in the area, public or private, to offer wireless accessibility to students anywhere on campus.

What's more, Bishop Feehan, at the discretion of teachers, will allow students to use laptops in classrooms to take notes and to use WiFi as a study tool and for research.

"Students in study hall will no longer have to wait to use a PC in the classroom or trek over to the library to type a paper," said Runey. "We realize that in today's economy, a laptop is a big-ticket item. Rest assured your child's education will not suffer in the slightest if he or she does not have a laptop, but we felt that it was a step that we had to take to be proactive in making Feehan educationally advanced in an ever-growing technological world."

The goal at Feehan is to fully harness the wireless technology to become a "laptop school" within three years; where Feehan classes will interact with classrooms around the world, assignments will be stored, submitted and graded electronically, and all students and faculty will have accessibility to, and be educated on, laptops - making PC's a thing of the past.