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High School Eliminates Textbooks For Computers: Charter School First In Nation To Eliminate Books
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Posted on 10/10/2002 9:23:39 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Great. Now if we can start eliminating teachers for computers, we'll be getting somewhere.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Maybe we can get them to use FR as one of their educational materials.
To: chance33_98
I don't think the quality of computer displays is adequate. Does any research exist about the effects on children of reading from monitors?
To: chance33_98
This is a hoax... ...right?
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:33:23 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: chance33_98
Instead of lugging heavy textbooks to class, they are among the first in the nation to rely solely on computers for their lessons. The textbook elimination comes as growing back pain complaints prompted the California legislature to pass a law limiting how much school books can weigh.
Did it ever occur to these mental giants to buy two sets of books -- one for school and the other for home?
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:35:32 PM PDT
by
mpoulin
To: mpoulin
They can't keep the books at school. They don't have lockers anymore because kids were hiding drugs or guns in them.
To: mpoulin; RLK
I post an article a few days back about Davis signing legislation regulating kids' back backs and how much weight they could carry, etc...
To: KingKongCobra
They can't keep the books at school. They don't have lockers anymore because kids were hiding drugs or guns in them.
If these school administrators had any brains, they would go down to Wal-Mart, buy a $29 bookcase, and set it up in the classroom.
It ain't rocket science, folks :-)
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:43:36 PM PDT
by
mpoulin
To: Paleo Conservative
I am a homeschooling mother. Many of the people in our group use computer curriculum, such as Switched on Schoolhouse. Some children prefer it, but many don't. My boys would much rather use texts, although they are real computer junkies otherwise. Especially math they much prefer in a text. I don't think this is a good move at all.
To: chance33_98
The textbook elimination comes as growing back pain complaints prompted the California legislature to pass a law limiting how much school books can weigh.Wonder what the enlightened legislature will do when these students complain about eye strain or repeatative stress injuries from using a mouse?
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:44:52 PM PDT
by
PFKEY
To: I still care
Math would definately be better in text IMO, but otherwise it would be ok from my experience with internet classes.
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:48:22 PM PDT
by
rb22982
To: chance33_98
I post an article a few days back about Davis signing legislation regulating kids' back backs and how much weight they could carry, etc...
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Is there no sanity left in this nation? Now we need a department of back pack inspection and policing? I'm serious when I say it's no wonder we have an idiot in Maryland shooting people. It's as sane as anything else going on.
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posted on
10/10/2002 9:54:55 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: RLK
To: chance33_98
Sounds like a good way to obscure class materials from pesky parents.
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posted on
10/10/2002 10:50:08 PM PDT
by
InfraRed
To: chance33_98
This can't be any worse than the liberal textbook lite that we have been seeing.
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posted on
10/10/2002 10:52:33 PM PDT
by
Eva
To: chance33_98
Keep the books in case of a magnetic pulse.
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posted on
10/10/2002 10:54:05 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
To: RLK
Is there no sanity left in this nation? Now we need a department of back pack inspection and policing? I'm serious when I say it's no wonder we have an idiot in Maryland shooting people. It's as sane as anything else going on.
Maybe they ought to check the backpacks for sufficient weight, and instead of wimpy games with no winners during PE, the kids should do a 5 mile hike. Get them in shape, and probably cut down on the need for ritalin. They'll also have good stories to tell their grandkids...
"When I was your age, I used to hump a 25 lb pack two miles uphill to school, and four miles uphill home. In the winter. Snow three feet deep if it was an inch. Don't think we had snowshoes, oh no. Snowshoes were for wimps and sissies...."
To: chance33_98
Two part answer
Part One
I've been earning my living as a computer guy for the last 13 years or so, and you would think I'd be all for computer-based schooling. Yet I still find serious studying using online computer courses difficult and/or annoying.
I much prefer studying with books, while using a pen and paper to take notes. Writing things down as you read them seems to reinforce the learning (at least for me).
I also find reading long articles on the web and scrolling a page at a time is very tiring and distracting.
Part Two
These little wimps need to GET SOME BACKBONE, not be relieved of their book-burdens. They NEED the friggin excercise of carrying books. If it's carrying books complaints now, it'll be G-Damn carpal-tunnel syndrome complaints in the headlines a few years down the road.
What is wrong with America these days ? ? ?
I'll tell you. It's the liberal EVERYONE'S A VICTIM syndrome.
I started playing varsity football as a 5'-10", 104 Lbs. high school freshman and finished 4 years later at 6'-0" and never more than 135 Lbs.(granted, I AM INSANE). I must have looked like a rag doll getting tossed around by a rabid dog most games, but absent broken bones, I kept getting up and kept playing (what a great game).
The point is, being physically tough and facing physical challenges was part of growing up. It never would've even OCCURRED to me to complain about carrying books.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. LOL
To: JohnLoyRocker
I prefer real books myself. I do read old, hard to find books that I download from project gutenburg on my computer but I am also working to get hard copies.
I find the computer great for some things while learning, like interactive simulations, etc. But there is something about holding a book in my hands that I like too much to give up totally.
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