High School Eliminates Textbooks For Computers: Charter School First In Nation To Eliminate Books

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High School Eliminates Textbooks For Computers
Charter School First In Nation To Eliminate Books

POSTED: 3:41 p.m. PDT October 10, 2002

SAN DIEGO -- Students at a new charter high school in Ramona are pioneers in education.

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.

Officials at the small charter school outside San Diego took the matter one step further and used the money normally spent on books to buy computers.

They say the move will not only alleviate back problems, it will also give students access to state-of-the-art online educational tools including online sites and CD-ROMs.

Using the computers, students can print out assignments to take home. And if the homework requires a computer, they can use the schools' machines after school.

School director David Tarr says the new system is not the wave of the future. Instead, he says, "it's the wave of the present."

[madfly]

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[BADJOE]

1st the books. then the teachers, and finally the bricks and mortar.

Why would anyone send their most precious possession, their child to a victem disarmament zone, when with a computer, their child can have the very best teacher in every subject and all of the worlds libraries in an instant at the touch of a button.

Think about it. No travel time or expense. No out of home food expense. No keep up with the Jonses clothing expense.

The kid can learn in two hours more than he can learn all day in a government indoctrination center, without his butt and his mind being numbed.

If ever there was a collary to the 19th century blacksmith shop, it is the 20th centuries public school system.

The day is fast approaching when no one will show up at the school house door.

Then we need to get rid of the child labor laws, so we can buy the little people a lawn mower or a pressure washer and send him out to learn the pride of a job well done and the value of an honest dollar.

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[madfly]

Do kids still have semester and summer reading lists for each grade? Do they still read the classics?

Perhaps this belongs on the Library thread, where Hispanic books now occupy the most space, so it reads.

[AgentEcho]

I don't know about anyone else, but for some reason I have a short attention span when reading articles on my computer. I wind up printing hard copies to read. If others are like this then we'll wind up using more paper/trees.

Maybe Earth First will start a literacy program and support the making of books. Talk about a quandary.