[Swordmaker]

3,500 Louisiana School children get Macbooks... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[metmom]

“I think the kids are so excited about it, that they’ll take care of them,” Principal Darryl Powell said.

If it's free, it has no value, they'll just expect another one when that one gets abused.

Educrats are so out of touch.

[metmom]

“Basically, we put our math books away. There’s not enough empty room on our desks for a book. We use the math book in our computer,” teacher Susan Morgan said.

No room for a book but room for a computer?

I've seen the size of Macbooks, they're not small.

Again, how out of touch...

[metmom]

ping

[Tribune7]

I might be able to see giving them one of those $200 Linux laptops, but what this tells me is that we spend too much on our schools.

[tubebender]

Sixth grade? By the time my grandson was in the fourth grade he was the teachers assistant in the Mac computer lab. I think he was 7 or 8 and all local schools were Mac equipped and his family had a Mac at home. This was in 89 or 90...

[martin_fierro]

Why is Comment #3 in these Apple threads always removed by the AdMod?

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[stainlessbanner]

They will be too busy downloading mp3s and updating their myspace page to do homework.

[ReagansShinyHair]

How did we ever make it through school without laptops?

I think this is all coming about because a bunch of educrats tried to read “The Earth is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. It was all the rage on the motivational arena, I guess. My principal was assigned to read it, along with the other administrators, a couple of years ago. She said it was too hard for her to read, so she got it on CD. Then she said it was too hard to listen to, so somebody else had to tell her what it was about. I kid you not.

Anyway, the higher-ups went on and on about how in India, the kids all have computers in their hovels, and that’s why if we want our kids to compete, they all have to have computers in their homes. What no one pointed out is that
a) the Indian children had computers because the parents valued education so much that they sacrificed to buy them. Gee, maybe parents giving a crap had more effect than a computer?
and,
b) our school systems are supposed to be training our children to compete with turd-worlders for jobs...shouldn’t we be aiming a little higher? Or at least for a job that they won’t have to move to India or the Phillipines to get?

The educrats just keep wailing, “The CHILDREN have to have computers!”