{"id":14,"date":"2005-07-11T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-02-14T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:53:30","slug":"burn-your-books-and-turn-on-laptops-says-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/burn-your-books-and-turn-on-laptops-says-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn your Books, and Turn on Laptops says School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ok, well they aren’t burning them, they just aren’t going to use them. they are going to, instead, buy each child a $750 laptop and have them use that.<\/p>\n

I know I still might be a little hungover from the 4th, but how does this make any practical sense? Don’t get me wrong — I think you can learn more with a laptop and an Internet connection then you can from any textbook. This being said, I’m an IT guy. I fix PCs for a living. Like an MD at a herpes convention, I see the same ailments time and time again. Spyware and Viruses. That’s all thats really wrong with peoples’ PCs today. Rarely does a component break, and when it does, it gets replaced.<\/p>\n

How is the school going to maintain and upgrade the laptops?<\/p>\n

What about when someone spills their CapriSun juice bag all over it? Or, it gets stolen. Hell, a kid in NYC was killed for is $200 iPod last week.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the cost of a single textbook is about $50, compared with $750 of a laptop. A laptop might last 5 years, but it might last 5 minutes. A textbook will last many, many years.<\/p>\n

Too bad high schools can’t be taught more like college classes. Textbooks do get dated, but they also arent easily damaged and people don’t kill each other over them.<\/p>\n

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