[afraidfortherepublic]

How interesting!

[Steely Tom]

Who didn’t see this coming?

[dfwgator]

How many of the laptops were sold to pay for crack?

[GraceG]

so home much “Stimulus money” was laundered through education to make it to Apple to be donated back to Dems?

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[Jonty30]

Learning is a multi-faceted experience. The more immersive the environment, the more likely a student will learn. The more that is done for the student, the less he will learn.

If it were up to me, a student would have a textbook, pens and paper, and math or science charts only.

[The Great RJ]

I taught for several years in a technical college where every student had a laptop (paid for with student fees). While the faculty was trained in using the laptops in teaching and they opened some new teaching opportunities, most students spent their class time posting to facebook, texting and surfing the web. I started having my students close their laptops during my lectures. Our local school district has now given junior high students tablets and I’m sure their real experience will be little different.

[Fungi]

You haven't seen anything yet. Los Angeles Unified has had the “writing on the wall” for some time and they have reused to face the premonition.

[lurk]

Laptops for everyone. What could go wrong?

A perfect picture of a collectivist program and its results.

[ClearCase_guy]

an unexpected windfall of stimulus money from Washington, D.C., and good intentions

Liberals.

What more can you say?

[Political Junkie Too]

In hindsight, those laptops are useless if Excel can't handle CommonCore math.

-PJ

[Steely Tom]

Here's the executive summary:

1. The students smashed the laptops.
2. They got specially reinforced laptops, and the students smashed those too.
3. The laptops were used to view pornography. When anti-porn software was installed, it caused the laptops to crash.
4. The laptops were used to play on-line games. When anti-gaming software was installed, it caused the laptops to slow down and crash.
5. The laptops were stolen. The administrator of the program had to spend time testifying in court in theft cases brought by the school district.
6. The only teacher who would talk about something positive that he wanted to do with the student laptops (a math teacher) said that the laptops were so slow - due to all the anti-porn and anti-game software that had been installed - that the graphing calculator app he wanted to demonstrate wouldn't work.
7. Every person involved with launching the program and implementing it has left the school district.
8. Now it's going to cost money to throw away the laptops that are left.

[RIghtwardHo]

What a bunch of idiots. I know they do it at several schools around here and it works great.

They sure hire idiots.

[GeronL]

This school district is giving them all IPADS from grade 6 and up.

Crazy

[njslim]

Saw similar thing in Jersey City number years ago

Used grants to buy computers(desktop) for every classroom

Kids would vandalize them - break CD rom drives, cut kb/mouse
and other cables

[PastorBooks]

Put Linux on those laptops and they’ll run like new. They can also kiosk-mode Firefox to lock down the browser.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Really interesting, but not unexpected result.

[Dogbert41]

When the lights go out, 300,000,000 Americans will die within a month. Won’t have a clue what to do, nor how to get back to where they were.

[metmom]

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[bgill]

Everyone in unison - DUUUUUUUUUUH!