Laptops Allow Teen Inmates ot Learn Some Extra Lessons

The Newark Star Ledger ^ | 06.07.04

[Coleus]

Giovanni's big fingers tapped away on his laptop as he typed a 600-word assigned report on the 1815 eruption of Tambora volcano in Indonesia.

Giovanni was into it. His eyes never left the screen and his earphones blocked out the drone of an air conditioner and chatter from a nearby table. Clicking open an encyclopedia on the wireless system, he found geology facts and carried text blocks to weave into his report.

[Coleus]

And the good kids? Their parents must pay for their computers.

[cyborg]

With $50,000 in state and county grant money,

*** Taxpayer money... I paid $1400 for mine.

[visualops]

This makes me ill.

[billorites]

"And the good kids? Their parents must pay for their computers."

All in the interest of a level playing field, right?

[DumpsterDiver]

Clicking open an encyclopedia on the wireless system, he found geology facts and carried text blocks to weave into his report.

Is weaving text blocks into a report a nice way of saying he was plagiarizing?

[Coleus]

And the good kids? Their parents must pay for their computers.  And pay taxes to house the criminals, which pay for convicts to have laptops.
An afterthought.

And the good kids? Their parents must pay for their computers.  And pay taxes to house the criminals, which pay for convicts to have laptops.
An afterthought.

[AQGeiger]

Pretty much, I think. But then again, when a person thinks he is entitled to another's physical property and decides to steal it, is it really possible for him to grasp the idea that one does not steal another's intellectual property?

[Irene Adler]

I have wanted a laptop for years but just couldn't justify one (sigh).

[thoughtomator]

Well go get yourself arrested then and maybe the gov't will get you one.

[CurlyDave]

he's in the 11th grade. But on the system, he's working his way through seventh-grade math with a sturdy B and sixth-grade language skills with a high C.

Lets all understand this. He is chronologically an 11th grade student, but even with the tax-paid laptop computer he is 4 or 5 years behind his peers. And this is really only because the computer makes it so easy to plagiarize work from the internet.

This kid needs vocational school a lot more than he needs to learn how to steal paragraphs from the internet.

[searchandrecovery]

From this news article, it becomes very clear that "the government" (local, state, federal) must (MUST) provide every citizen with a laptop computer. Especially all children (THEY'RE THE FUTURE!). Of course, criminals should be given 2 laptops, because they're disadvantaged.

Lack of computers actually probably caused their criminal behavior.

[familyop]

But from the column above,...

"Zeliff can monitor what the students are working on and how well they are doing from a master laptop. The system does not offer access to the Internet or e-mail."

And as for plagiarism, most of the Web bots (spiders) I stop from copying whole sites full of writers' content are corporate (mostly Fortune 500) copying programs written to gather (steal) content for corporate intranets. Most of the lawsuit bots I stop from accessing news sites are from the same kinds of corporates. Stopping those prevents writers from being required to answer "cease and desist" letters for any negative mention (and sometimes, any mention at all) of those corporations.

...same kinds of corporates who recently had their attorneys file in favor of so-called "affirmative action" in Michigan, recently.

I'll pay for problem children to learn Math, although, IMO, compulsory enlistments in combat specialties would do them even more good.

[Coleus]

He is chronologically an 11th grade student, but even with the tax-paid laptop computer he is 4 or 5 years behind his peers. >>

Indicative of the thousands of Classified, Special Ed. Students in NJ/USA, protected by Federal Special Ed. Act and Americans with Disabilites act where they can stay in school until they are 22 yrs. old and sit next to your 13 yr. old daughter in lunch and gym.