New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead

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New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 6, 2003 @04:50AM from the laptops-for-the-masses dept.

Timex writes "According to an article from the Portland [Maine] Press Herald, some seventh-graders in New Hampshire will be issued laptops in January. 19 school districts have been invited to submit proposals, and up to five of them will be chosen to lead the way in New Hampshire. Cabletron Systems co-founder and NH Governor Craig Benson is getting funding for the four-year project from corporate donations. So far, he's gathered about half of the estimated $1.2 million estimated cost."

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Excellent news by peen · 2003-09-06 04:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Will they be iBooks though? :)

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1. Re:Excellent news by H0ek · 2003-09-06 05:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Not if the students want to learn anything...
  
  I mean, where's the struggle with one of those iBooks? Heckm they're so easy to use even the most non-technical person can be productive.
  
  No, what they need are cheap, noname-brand laptops with Gentoo Linux! Heck, even Gentoo makes it too easy. Make 'em to LFS!
  
  That'll teach 'em!
  
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2. Re:Excellent news by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-06 05:15 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In my day we got an Apple ][ system monitor prompt, a book on 6502 assembly language, and an hour to build our own operating system. If we didn't get it done we were summarily executed as well as given an F.
  
  Ah, good times.
3. Re:Excellent news by H0ek · 2003-09-06 05:21 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Assembly Language! Hah! We were lucky if we were given 15 minutes to divine the hexadecimal opcodes for the 6502 instruction set before we were expected to write our own multiplayer FPS!
  
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mommy. . by NetMagi · 2003-09-06 04:53 · Score: 3, Funny

mom, can I go back to school please. . c'mon I'm only 25
It's about time... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-06 04:55 · Score: 3, Funny

WindowsCHILD, WindowsNEWBORN, WindowsIMPLANT
Re:Better be Macs by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-06 04:55 · Score: 5, Funny

If they don't choose Macs, they aren't following Maine's lead, they are moving in another direction entirely.

Namely, backwards.
How's that for a turn? by devphaeton · 2003-09-06 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

In the late 1980s i got busted in the 7th grade using my C= Plus/4 to do my algebra and geometry homework with. I was removed from both classes and had to make them up the following year.

My principal's famous last words:

"You need to learn to do this without a computer. When you grow up and get a job, is your computer going to be there to do your work for you then?"

heh

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Book Covers by Esion+Modnar · 2003-09-06 05:35 · Score: 2, Funny

And will they be issued paper book covers, too? I mean, if they put those things around $20 textbooks, man, they better put them on $2000 laptops...
'Cuz, they gotta turn them back in, right?

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Danger! by jkabbe · 2003-09-06 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny

I wonder what kind of laptops will be issued. Physical fitness classes are on their way out and we wouldn't want the kids throwing their back out lugging around a Dell.
Start sand bagging by Dodava · 2003-09-06 06:16 · Score: 4, Funny

School districts picked to apply in New Hampshire are in towns with high property tax rates and whose sixth-graders did poorly on the state assessment test, he said.
Attention all sixth-graders everywhere: If your parents pay a lot of property taxes, make sure you do poorly on your tests. Maybe next year you'll be rewarded with a laptop!
Re:Would be good if... by Kenja · 2003-09-06 06:56 · Score: 2, Funny

But they dont, so let the porn flow like a mighty river into the vast sea that are these young minds.

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Re:i am a school teacher by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-06 07:01 · Score: 1, Funny

After reading your post, I now better understand what is wrong with education in this country. :)