Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: California is
facing a $24billion budget
deficit
Posted on 06/09/2009 10:15:41 AM PDT by yankeedame
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: California is
facing a $24billion budget
deficit
...Arnold Schwarzenegger has a plan to save his state's failing economy - by terminating text books.
The governor is telling children to give up the schoolbooks and turn to digital lessons to help the state avoid bankruptcy...
... he said: 'Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion.' He continued: 'For so many years, we've been trying to teach the kids exactly the same way.
'Our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones ...
'So why are California's school students still forced to lug around antiquated...expensive textbooks?'...
...the average price of a textbook is $75 to $100, whereas digital media can be distributed cheaply...
[snip]
Mr Schwarzenegger has ruled out tax increases to make up the shortfall.
Announcing measures across the board to stop excess spending...Spending department have been ordered to submit plans to the Department of Finance to reduce their expenditure by 15per cent or more...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
BTW, photos should never be altered. Cropped, sure, but never changed. I know of at least one instance in which a quote was revised. I think it was changed back, but I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s much like the Office of Revisionist History, or whatever it was in Brave New World (?) 1984 (?) well... you know. Changing history to meet the current trends. No wonder we’re all in trouble now.
Conscientious publishers don’t turn out badly designed stuff. Of course with no competition... I remember one that stopped in mid sentence then had a 10 or 12 page “border section” and picked back up after that. Really bad.
Everybody always thinks they do all the work. In software it’s the same thing, I’m in QA, we’re those annoying complainers.
Absolutely. My friend said the one she enjoyed the most was editing out Krushchev he was inconveniently placed in a group photo before they were ready to discuss him so out he went. She enjoyed the irony of editing out an old Sov. Mostly though it’s cigarettes and corporate logos that she gets rid of.
Ohhh....OK. It’s good to know who the annoying complainers are. :)
“Krushchev he was inconveniently placed in a group photo before they were ready to discuss him so out he went.”
LOL! If only this could work in real life...
BTW, Good to know your friend is there in the industry. Sounds like she helps to balance the ideology!
Am I allowed to call him a freak?
Make the computer/reader proprietary for schools. File format, encryption, etc., that makes them worthless outside of education.
That does it! We need complete Federal control of the schools...for the sake of the textbook purchasers! /s
Assuming the average textbook gets used 7 years, books cost CA taxpayers $60-$100 per student per year. Compare that with the $11k per student per year education spending in CA.
Cutting that essential part of education (reading textbooks) will save less than 1% of the education budget. Instead, Arnold and the legislature should cut the excessive education bureaucracy. What do the administrators above the level of school principal do, and what less would they accomplish with a 50% cut?
The governor is telling children to give up the schoolbooks and turn to digital lessons to help the state avoid bankruptcy...
Almost right. It's the teachers that need to be replaced with digital lessons.
That’s a big flipside for us!
And monopolizing control over what info can be disseminated to the public. It’s called censorship, and that’s Stalinist.
In the early to mid 1910s, the globalists had been buying up textbook publishers so that they can control the information and what was taught to school students, with the process of rewriting national history in their warped image.
I thought textbooks were made with hardbound covers.
Some are but not all. Especially in Lit courses the schools are just buying the same paperback you and I could get at Barnes & Noble. Sometimes the paper is so cheap that it’s little better than newsprint.
For the other courses they still use hardbound books but the bindings are getting cheaper and cheaper. The “hard” binding is glossy paper laminated over cardboard. The cardboard gets cheaper and flimsier as the years go by...
She tries, but she’s just a peon, like so many of us who dislike our corporate culture nothing much ever seems to change.
Couldn’t someone just yank the hard drive and install a new one?
Could. But if the case has engraved on it "Education Computer Only! Property of XYZ School District" then there should be no problem with pawning them.
We will still need teachers to assist pupils undertaking digital lessons and to ask questions of pupils and answer their queries.
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