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Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop

Posted by Zonk on from the educatin-on-the-cheap dept.

CountryGeek passed us a link to a story in the Birmingham News, saying that schools in the Alabama city will be the first US students to make use of the XO laptop. The piece touches on a bit of the project's history, and seems to indicate the Birmingham school district is ready to make a serious commitment to these devices. "Langford has asked the City Council to approve $7 million for the laptops and a scholarship program that would give Birmingham students with a C average or above a scholarship to college or tech school of their choice. The City Council has not yet approved the funding. The rugged, waterproof computers will be distributed to students on April 15, Langford said, and children will be allowed to take them home. If a computer is lost, the school system can disable it, rendering it useless, Langford said. Students will turn in their computers at the end of their eighth-grade year."

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  1. Alabama? by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alabama you say? That's entirely natural. After all they were supposed to be for the third world... ;-)

    1. Re:Alabama? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes yes, we all know the low-wage manufacturing jobs are moving or have moved south, but that's because the robber barons and the Colonel Tollivers, Colonel Lee's and other the other rich white guys who own everything down there set it up their laws to make it very very hard for unions.

      It's also very very hard lives down there, take a look at the census data. Outside a few uni towns the South is still decades behind the north socio-economically. Which is why you're exporting all your religious nuts up here, they're leaving your crappy states and bringing their scraggly goatees, socks with sandals and fucking nascar up here.

  2. All together now! by PinkyDead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh I come from Alabama with an XO on my knee.

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  3. more news on alabama by flynt · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just heard that the governor has signed a law in Alabama raising the drinking age to 35. He wants to keep alcohol out of the high schools.

    just a joke.

  4. Re:Hey Paw, I got a C! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do those C students know how to write sentences that aren't run-ons? I bet the A students do.

  5. Re:No they're not... by barocco · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The City Council has not yet approved the funding." => Slashdot space-time continuum distorter(TM) => "schools in the Alabama city will be the first US students to make use of the XO laptop." There, fixed.

  6. Re:Newark by GungaDan · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you're saying it's got the nappy headed hos thing going for it?

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  7. That was awfully one-sided. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're just lucky you put it on the internet where nobody from Alabama can see it.