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New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Excellent news by peen · · Score: 3, Funny
    Will they be iBooks though? :)



    (fp?)

    1. Re:Excellent news by H0ek · · 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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      H0ek
      Think you're smart? Prove you've got brains!
    2. Re:Excellent news by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. mommy. . by NetMagi · · Score: 3, Funny

    mom, can I go back to school please. . c'mon I'm only 25

  3. It's about time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    WindowsCHILD, WindowsNEWBORN, WindowsIMPLANT

  4. Re:Better be Macs by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  5. How's that for a turn? by devphaeton · · 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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  6. Danger! by jkabbe · · 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.

  7. Start sand bagging by Dodava · · 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!