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Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas
DrEnter writes "Yahoo! is running this article about an experiment at Johnson Elementary school in Dallas, Texas, which will provide an IBM ThinkPad to every 5th and 6th grader, each one loaded with electronic versions of textbooks and 2,000 other books. Apparently, due to rapidly increasing enrollment and long delays to get new books the school is trying to head off future problems. They also mention a similar program in Henrico County, Virginia, using iBooks and how some of these programs are affecting laptop design (like Apple replacing pop-out CD trays with CD slides)."
Who's Idea was it to give hunderds of 11 and 12 year olds $1,350 pieces of equipment? I highly doubt that a lot of the laptops will last. And is it necessary to have a $1,350 notebook for the sole purpose of reading text? They probably got a higher model than what they really needed, sounds like a lot of money was wasted here to me...
If anyone has noticed how kids treat textbooks, I expect the laptops won't last a week.