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India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the children-make-the-best-lab-rats dept.

ex-geek writes "Seems like Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program has been rejected by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India. Among the objections are concerns about the effect of extensive laptop use on children's health. Better uses for the monies, which would be required to roll out the OLPC project, are also named. Most insightful however is the observation that not one industrial country has so far implemented a similar program for its children, which casts doubt as to what the pedagogical use for notebooks in class really is."

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  1. It may be a case of self-defeat. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you've been to India and you know something about the history of the people there, you know they are very self-defeating.

    For years the rich and powerful in India prevented outside influence. This slowed India's development.

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    U.S. Government violence encourages other violence.

  2. Re:Passing the buck by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Troll

    Also, the concern about health effects may seem silly, but there have been plenty of cases where things that were relatively harmless for adults turn out to have adverse effects on still-developing children.

    Like what? Electromagnetic fields? Those have pretty much been proven okay in the last 100 years.

    Is India still like Indiana Jones, where they'd flee in superstitious terror from the "sorcery" of electronic tools?

  3. Re:Passing the buck by Homology · · Score: 0, Troll

    > But good job on leaping straight to the "brown people must have primitive superstitions" stereotype.

    The GP is watching too much Fox "News", I guess.