Replacing School Books With BroadbandPhilly's $63 million 'School of the future' ( old news - 07:12PM Monday Nov 27 2006) PBS checks in on a $63 million "school of the future" that has been constructed in one of Philadelphia's higher crime rate neighborhoods. Notebooks and textbooks are replaced by laptops and broadband (technical specifics are painfully sparse). "Each student also carries a smart card that, among other things, gives them access to digital lockers," says the report - which also notes that the card even tracks the calories each student consumes during lunch. There's slightly more detail at the Philly city website and in this older E-School News report.
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ninjatutle
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Kids are already crying about books being too heavy. What are they going to say about laptops and the power bricks. | |
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Erial, NJ | Re: Cry babies Yeah, just what I'd want my kid carrying in a high crime neighborhood. Something the local crackheads could get more than just their next few hits from stealing from them. Why not just paint big targets on their backs. | |
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| Re: Cry babies said by Jodokast96  :Yeah, just what I'd want my kid carrying in a high crime neighborhood. Something the local crackheads could get more than just their next few hits from stealing from them. Why not just paint big targets on their backs. And haveing school end at 4:30 p.m. is not making it any safer. | |
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Erial, NJ | Re: Cry babies Live in fear? No. But I'm not gonna make a target of my kids in an area like that. | |
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| said by ninjatutle :Oh noes, these books are too heavy Kids are already crying about books being too heavy. What are they going to say about laptops and the power bricks. You clearly don't have kids then. Now I don't know about that school but the new one here 4 Floors Buildings A-H. Now you try lugging your regular stuff, plus books, plus extra school stuff around we we'll talk. Luckily for me I just bring a laptop around with me so I don't need binders or note books.
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| Re: Cry babies Pff.
When I was in school, I had to walk 6 miles, each way to school. We had to share 1 book between the 4 kids.
We didnt have minivans where the doors open and shut without you touching you the handle.
Kids today are too spoiled. They're nothing but a bunch of sissies. | |
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| Re: Cry babies said by ninjatutle :Pff. When I was in school, I had to walk 6 miles You forgot that it was UPHILL both ways  | |
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| What not 15 Miles both ways in a snow storm? Could you also get into movies for 25 Cents? When you were a kid you were spoiled.  I bet your parents had to walk 15 miles. But as it is with any generation when the current generation grows up and our kids are complaining about having to turn on the computer to learn as school may not be existent and we'll be complaining about having to walk up the street both ways in snow.
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA | Re: Cry babies Yes but no one complained back then. Now kids wont even walk 8 blocks to school.
Mommy must drive them and buy them rolling backpacks. | |
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| Re: Cry babies what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid.
P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. | |
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| Re: Cry babies We had to worry about the boogie monster, polio, if we were going to have food for the rest of the week, if we were going to be invaded by a foreign power, nuclear war, if it were going to be a good crop season, etc.
1st graders can't even read, what do they need the large history books for? If kids these days are so smart, why is everyone complaining about the education system? Why do people write off the public school system and bypass them for private schools? We need to get back to the basics first. People got by 1,000's of years without computers. What makes the kids today so special?
Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home | |
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| Re: Cry babies As ridiculous as EVERYONE'S rants may be in this thread, I agree with you on this, ninjatutle:
said by ninjatutle :Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home Persnally, I think MySpace has gotten ridiculously out of hand with today's kids (I recently blocked the site on the home computer for my kid). Let's not give our kids yet another way to AVOID education, whether it be MySpace, or anything else.
Damn, in my day, the worst thing we had to worry about was peer pressure to start smoking cigarettes.
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| said by JamesPC :what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid. P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. I don't know when, or where you went to school, but here the books that kids carry today are the same size, if not smaller for some subjects, than we carried back in the late 70's to early 90's. | |
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| You can come up with all the excuses you want but todays kids ARE cry babies. Everything is done for them by the parents. They fail, the parents complain to the school. How about making sure they do their assignments and that those assignments are turned in? People complain about the No Child Being Left Behind as being underfunded. The fact of the matter is that the government put a lot of money on this. Parents need to teach their children to be responsible, not to be sissies/cry babies. And the government need to abolish the welfare system. And if you don't think that kids are spoiled cry babies, be a teacher and you'll find out on your first day of class just how bad it is. | |
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| said by ninjatutle :Oh noes, these books are too heavy Kids are already crying about books being too heavy. What are they going to say about laptops and the power bricks. Yeah. By my junior year, my MD was causing me to have to wait till the stairs cleared of students so I could "hobble" to upstairs classes without being "trampled" over. I did this with a book bag full of books, cause I couldn't spare more time to go to my locker between classes. I can't count how many times I found myself getting "after school work detail", cause my Geometry teacher figured I was just faking. 
By my senior year, I was having "problems", that my teachers appealed to the administrator that I get some help. I then was offered to have a "home bound" teacher meet me in the Library twice a week for all my classes (had to have full schedule unless you had a job), except my Computer Science class. I needed access to the PC, and that class room was the only one with a computer (this was 92'... Before computers where common in all class rooms in our school system). I still lugged a full book bag though, just not upstairs anymore.
This "no school book" idea sounds great... for disabled kids who have problems carrying books. | |
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| Re: Cry babies Here in Cali, all of the schools with a second story has an elevator.
Its one thing for kids disabilities but normal kids whining are a different thing. These days, even the parents whine about their kids getting too much homework
I saw two kids this morning wearing shorts while waiting for the school bus. Today was the first time I saw frost on the roofs. It was 41 degrees. Kids today are idiots. Its not like they can't afford clothes. This was the rich area. | |
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Hurley, MS | me for editor "PBS checks in on a $63 "school of the future"..."
Only $63? Not bad. I'd let that come out of my taxpayer budget! | |
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| I love technology i love computers a gadgets but this doesn't seem like it creates a very good learning environment. I'm currently in high school and I think that they are trying to make something like this work but it will probably distract most of the students.
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| I have to disagree They are raising a generation of children who don't know the meaning of 'privacy'. Privacy is a very important concept for a child to understand. If they are raised in an environment where everything they do is monitored, we will have a generation of 'generic indian (from india) kids'. We won't have kids who think outside the box, because they will be repressed. We won't have creative, intuitive, and yes, bad kids, because they will all be monitored, all the time. We won't have kids who question the government, because they will be conditioned to accept what is given to them. We will have a generation of mindless drones, and that will be a disaster to society. Being a kid means breaking the rules. Being a kid means you don't always do what your parents/authority tells you to do. Being a kid means you SHOULD be a rebel. Never trust anyone over 30! And I'm over 30!
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| Re: I have to disagree said by karlmarx :They are raising a generation of children who don't know the meaning of 'privacy'. Privacy is a very important concept for a child to understand. If they are raised in an environment where everything they do is monitored, we will have a generation of 'generic indian (from india) kids'. We won't have kids who think outside the box, because they will be repressed. We won't have creative, intuitive, and yes, bad kids, because they will all be monitored, all the time. We won't have kids who question the government, because they will be conditioned to accept what is given to them. We will have a generation of mindless drones, and that will be a disaster to society. Being a kid means breaking the rules. Being a kid means you don't always do what your parents/authority tells you to do. Being a kid means you SHOULD be a rebel. Never trust anyone over 30! And I'm over 30! Where have you been. Schools/society/government have been training children to be good, little -above all- conformist, rapacious consumers for the past twenty years. Laptops in school does not change that fact.
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1 edit | said by karlmarx :They are raising a generation of children who don't know the meaning of 'privacy'. Privacy is a very important concept for a child to understand. If they are raised in an environment where everything they do is monitored, we will have a generation of 'generic indian (from india) kids'. We won't have kids who think outside the box, because they will be repressed. We won't have creative, intuitive, and yes, bad kids, because they will all be monitored, all the time. We won't have kids who question the government, because they will be conditioned to accept what is given to them. We will have a generation of mindless drones, and that will be a disaster to society. Being a kid means breaking the rules. Being a kid means you don't always do what your parents/authority tells you to do. Being a kid means you SHOULD be a rebel. Never trust anyone over 30! And I'm over 30! Apon reflection, I decided not to post. | |
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TScheisskopf
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| Fot those who object: Now, I know a lot of those who object to this are of a certain socio-political idealogy that finds large tax bills distasteful. And who doesn't. So, let's kindasorta run the numbers and consider what this *could* mean in relationship to this tax bill:
Consider the yearly cost of books.
"For FY 2006, the District will invest $18.5 million on rolling out core curriculum materials and textbooks, that is in addition to the over $53 million all ready invested in fiscal years 2004 and 2005."
»www.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/comm···get.html
Now, it seems to me that in a reasonably decent amount of time, they are going to be able to amortize this initial expense of $63million. Every time there is a change in the course data, every time there are advances in information, teaching, concepts, you name it...They only have to update this stuff one time. Less raw materials are consumed in the production and dissemination of this information. Kids are exposed to high-tech tools and concepts that they might never have seen, to this point. They stop being taught things from out-of-date course materials.
It has the potential to spend less of your tax dollars.
This really does have these potentials, and more I cannot think of at this time. If you can still complain about this, I look forward to your reasoning.
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»www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6342191.html | |
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| Re: Fot those who object: That sounds good initially, but who pays for the upkeep of the laptops? Where you save on books, you now spend on IT. Plus the cost of replacing a laptop is far more than replacing a book. And just how long do you expect the laptops to last? 3 years would be very optimistic IMO. While textbooks are often updated, there aren't always that many changes to them that make them outdated enough that they couldn't be used beyond 3 years. | |
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| Re: Fot those who object: How much less is the cost of one year's textbooks per student?
Upkeep of the laptops and infrastructure? How much you wanna bet that M$ and Linux cert prep courses are already in the planning stages?
Something tells me they already know how these numbers break out. | |
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Erial, NJ | Re: Fot those who object: For a school system that is in such bad shape, a nice start would be to try the textbooks on CD/DVD as a start, and not as an outright replacement since not everybody could make use of them. | |
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| said by Jodokast96 :That sounds good initially, but who pays for the upkeep of the laptops? Where you save on books, you now spend on IT. Plus the cost of replacing a laptop is far more than replacing a book. And just how long do you expect the laptops to last? 3 years would be very optimistic IMO. While textbooks are often updated, there aren't always that many changes to them that make them outdated enough that they couldn't be used beyond 3 years. DING DING DING!!!!!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to see the lawsuits role in when some parents complain about their kids not getting laptops. | |
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Austell, GA | they should use that money for needfull things such as higher security, better lockers, and a 3 Gbit Backbone to the internet. | |
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| My tax bill would be a lot LESS if parents paid 100% of the costs to raise, and educate, their moment of indiscretions. I will concede that every human should be allowed to have a child, and for the first child assist in raising that child IF the parent(s) cannot afford 100% of that child.
But I'll be damned (literally, and by almost every parent) that under this modus the same parent(s) will go out and have another child and claim the same thing. That's a double-burden on society. I'm paying more than $200 per month, every month, and I'm a childless household and have never used the public school system I am paying into. And I don't plan on placing a burden on society for that personal, and selfish decision.
If you have the first child, and parent(s) can afford only 80% of the first child, and the same can be said for the second child, then really what is being said is the first could have been 100% fully affordable, and the second only 60%. I don't want to hear wolf-crying parent wisdom. I see a lot of households with many children with many personal amenities in life that are luxury to the real poor.
BTW, its easy to have children and send them into the public school system when it appears to be FREE. When was the last time we invoiced parents for their children in the county school system to show them exactly what kind of burden they've placed on their county or city?
A good irony was my next door neighbor. We live in the same subdivision. They made about the same in household income. Their house was valued at about 85% of my home's value based on county tax record. I had no burden against the county school system and my contribution into it was greater than my neighbor's. BTW, my neighbor have five moments of indiscretion in the county school system. He couldn't afford the first--guessing, because no one ever tried to see if he could!
Now, I am all for introducing technology where every member of society can use it, but sometimes I think those making choices are less then qualified. Laptops are an expensive option in supporting the need for computing in the classroom. What is wrong with the notion of desktops? Laptops will get stolen, dropped, and lack the ease and inexpense of repair that desktops provide, and the processing power for the dollar is premium.
I tell you what. Have a school child come cut my lawn once a week and I'll be happy to keep quiet, just like I keep paying to raise someone else's child. | |
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Stewartstown, PA | Just cut my wrists why don't ya? Just another one of the ideas in this state that continue to drive my school taxes through the roof. They really don't care about the taxpayer here. | |
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Los Alamitos, CA | Nay, I Say Just another tax hike for something that's way ahead of its time. | |
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| If you ever doubted that the world is on crack... ...this should alleviate all doubt.
Jack and Jill can't read, write or do math but they can game. And to think this shit is approved by "educators" who are suppose to be paid professionals. Yeah, right.
Is it any surprise that crime continues to rise when our education system fails not only the students but society? Time for somebody in the U.S. educational system to wake up and BUY A CLUE. This ranks only a step above trying to approve Ubonics as an acceptable U.S. language in the L.A. school district. | |
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Erial, NJ | Re: If you ever doubted that the world is on crack... Yeah, education is in a bad place right now. My oldest is in second grade, and I'm still waiting for her to be taught something that she didn't already know. | |
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| Sick of This Sh*t The last generation of Americans are in many ways smarter than the current ones. They seemed to learn fine when COMPUTERS DIDN'T EXIST, didn't they? It's a "higher crime" neighborhood, so spending 63 mil on a electronic education system is somehow going to help them learn? Uh, no. Washington DC has one of the highest school budgets in the nation with some of the lowest scores.
Yea, just keep throwing money at the problem. OUR money. That'll fix it. | |
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| Righhtt.. Lets just ignore the 70 Mill highschool that we just built here in Woburn, MA that is claimed to be the most HIghtech and Energy efficient school. I think our school beats this Microsoft school without a problem.
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| Re: Righhtt.. said by Edrick :Lets just ignore the 70 Mill highschool that we just built here in Woburn, MA that is claimed to be the most HIghtech and Energy efficient school. I think our school beats this Microsoft school without a problem. GO WOBURN!!! I grew up there. Visited in July and saw the new school as it was being finished. I heard big things about it. | |
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| Re: Machines will save our children! I agree, the ideology that if something is broken you just pump more money into it hoping the problem will be fixed. Instead your just creating a bigger problem.
The U.S. spends more money on education than any other country in the world and the kids still can't read or write. Now we are buying kids laptops and they still can't read or write but they sure can play video games. | |
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| More Tax Payer Money Blown Here's an idea...
Maybe instead of a 63 Million dollar school a better way would be to construct a 10 million dollar school and budget 50 Mil. to hire more police in the 'Higher Crime Rate' neighborhood' to keep the drug dealers off the street and raise the teachers pay rate in the 'Higher Crime Rate' neighborhood to attract more capable teachers? Maybe that would be a start on helping the kids not become part of the future 'higher crime rate'. Just a thought.
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| Re: More Tax Payer Money Blown Well just some pricing I know for our school, Chorus Risers for the Theater around 1 grand I think it was each and we have 7, Music Lab Room 18 Stations 100 per keyboard. Multiple Grand Pianos for the Music Director. Our auditorium has a 32 Mixer Sound board, hearing assisted sytem, preview system in chorus and band room, 8 Wireless Lav mics 2 Handheld, Color Tran Lighting system with 144 channels, mobile sound kit, and more. All of the computers, 120 Projection Systems in each classroom plus wired speakers in the ceiling, All new furniture, All new color and black and white laser printers, ect. ect.. ect.. it all adds up.
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| Re: More Tax Payer Money Blown said by Edrick :Well just some pricing I know for our school, Chorus Risers for the Theater around 1 grand I think it was each and we have 7, Music Lab Room 18 Stations 100 per keyboard. Multiple Grand Pianos for the Music Director. Our auditorium has a 32 Mixer Sound board, hearing assisted sytem, preview system in chorus and band room, 8 Wireless Lav mics 2 Handheld, Color Tran Lighting system with 144 channels, mobile sound kit, and more. I can't say how it works in your area, but where I'm at, schools actually make money off of setups like this. One school here went and added an auditorium that rivaled the big name theater's in Philly. Result: it get's rented out far more than the school actually uses it, and not just for local groups, but more so for national acts that pass through. | |
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| Re: More Tax Payer Money Blown said by Jodokast96 :said by Edrick : I can't say how it works in your area, but where I'm at, schools actually make money off of setups like this. One school here went and added an auditorium that rivaled the big name theater's in Philly. Result: it get's rented out far more than the school actually uses it, and not just for local groups, but more so for national acts that pass through. Works the same here we start renting to outside groups in Janurary, The school still isn't finished so we haven't started renting out yet. The old school (8 Buildings) had to be demolished and they just finished tearing it down and are now putting in a parking lot.
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| unreasonable? School board tried the same thing with Miramar High in South Florida and it didn't work. Kids had to walk to school with them and they got stolen.
I also think people who support these programs don't consider that there is an energy cost in manufacturing and charging new computers for every student in high school. Even though they don't use paper, they still pull from the power plant which is using nonrenewable resources. Has anyone actually calculated the net gain or loss in running a laptop for every student vs what it takes for all that paper to be made? | |
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| How ironic... The card will keep track of how many calories the kid consumes. But according to the acceptable standards of the day, all the kids can surf all the porn they want, and nothing will ever be said. Because that would be bad for them if someone infringed on their rights to surf where they want to. Nevermind that the card infringes on their right to eat as many calories as they want. How incredibly ironic. | |
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| Re: Who are the "rich"? A few months ago I went back to the old neighborhoods to show my wife how we lived in the late 40' through 60's.
Areas like Sharon Hill, Collingdale, Swathmore, etc.
I could not beleive my eyes.It is a sin what they have become. Slums.
I wanted to show her the nice places in Philadelphia, like the Art Meuseum and the Franklin Institute where I spent many hours learning about science.
After seing the out lieing areas I decided not to venture further into a questionable area where safety might be a concern.
During the coming war or wars we will be throwing young soldiers at the enemy and many of them will be the more uneducated groups and minorities, as usually happens.
The draft will be reinststuted again shortly, because our country has sent most of them all over the world to protect our "Business Interest's" in those countries in our efforts to rule the world by building Krispy Kream shops in those countries.
New educational schemes come along every so often and are started with good intentions,but they are designed by people who live in their own little world, surrounded by their piers, also goofy. This is the way THEY make money. By telling others how to live and learn.
Laptop's in schools has to be one of the wildest ideas yet.
So many people are going to benifit financially from this one. All except the kids. They will remain uneducated.
Yes, the smarter kids will take this idea and run with it and excel and work their way to college and then into the money making world where they in turn can design more systems to educate the poor.
Money runs this world and it's people. You need money to survive and the more you make the better you survive.
Sure there are those who always say money isn't everything, but those people HAVE IT already.
Education is a business and educators are out to make money, no matter what they have to do to the kids to get it.
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During this time our PEU's [Portable Educational Units will Boot and connect to the NEE [Network for Educational Excellence].
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Our Leader who art in Redmond, give us our Download speed that we need to survive.
Forgive us for deleting, as we forgive those whom deleted before us.
Now push the T on your keyboard and proceed to the test page and run your Antivirus software to purge the PORN you watched last nightwith your drunked friends.
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The whole world has gone to hell and we paid for it's oneway ticket with our tax money.
Get a life people!
But first, put all the educators in prison for commiting crimes againt society. FOR LIFE. No parole. | |
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XoLiMiT
join:2001-10-04
Newark, NJ | Re: Who are the "rich"? i think the bully is going to make some serious money selling his classmates laptops on the street. | |
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captokita
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join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| SOUNDS good.... It's a good idea - that a laptop, with access, can provide more "current" learning tools, than a book that is 20 years old. HOWEVER......
You can drop a book and not break it. You can leave a book on the bus and (usually) easily get a new one. Not so with a laptop.
Then there is always just the hardware failures that come with electronics.... Does your kid fail a class because through no fault of his/her own the laptop just died? How do they do their work?
Good idea, but I don't see how it can be applied realistically. | |
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oh crap (more time for kids to)
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