Bootcamp Partition option without option key?

Question

I work for a school division where we have dual boot macs in some of our schools. Many of the younger students have difficulty figuring out which key to press (option key) in time to bring up the boot partition option screen. I know it sounds strange, and when we started I didn't think it would be a big deal. But I have spent many hours in the classroom with them and sometimes they have to restart 3 or 4 times before they get it right.
I am wondering if anyone out there knows of a way to have that option screen displayed automatically, without having to hold down the option key at startup. I have found rEFit (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) but our tech support team says they only want to use Apple supported software and hardware in the schools.
Is there an Apple supported way of bringing up the boot partition option screen automatically without having to hold down the option key?

Answer 1

Sorry, I maybe wasn't very clear about who was going to be doing this. These are students in an elementary school, which means they are as young as 5 years old. They don't know how to read, and some don't even know their letters yet (which makes logging in a challenge as well, lol). Going into a control panel and changing the boot sequence is not an option.
I realize some of you may have kids of your own who are whizzes on the computer. But teaching one student how to hold down the option key when the computer boots at home is very different from teaching a class of 20 of them in a lab setting. Class time is precious, so the easier we can make it for them, the more time we have to devote to using the computer as a tool to teach them things like the letters of the alphabet.
Remember, many of the teachers who are teaching these students are not used to using the computer as a teaching and learning tool. For some of them, they only thing they have used a computer for is word processing. It is new ground to them. So if they get flustered because the computer keeps booting into the wrong OS for some of their students who don't hold the option key quick enough, they may get discouraged and decide that it isn't worth taking their class down to the computer lab and they would rather teach using the paper and pencil method. This is not the biggest problem we face by far, but the little things can add up. I'm just trying to give them as much support as I can to make the transition smooth for them.
That's why I wanted to have a boot option screen where they could either use the mouse to click a picture. If we could simply set bootcamp to bring up the option screen by default, that would solve the problem for me.