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How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology?
armorer writes "I'm a programmer engaged to an inner-city public school teacher. I've been thinking for a long time now about what I can do to help close the technology gap, and I finally did something (very small) about it. I convinced my company to give me a few old computers they were replacing, refurbished them, installed Edubuntu on them, and donated them to her classroom. I also took some vacation time to go in, install everything, and give a lesson on computers to the kids. It was a great experience, but now I know first-hand how little technology these schools have. I only helped one classroom. The school needs more. (Really the whole district needs more!) And while I want to help them, I don't really know how. With Thanksgiving a week away and more holidays approaching, I suspect I'm not the only one thinking about this sort of thing. I know it's a hard problem, so I'm not looking for any silver bullets. What do Slashdot readers do? What should I be doing so that I'm more effective? How do you find resources and time to give back?"
First, install some Edubuntu or Xubuntu on all of the student's computers. Then, explain to all those hopeless rug-headed negroes that "Ubuntu" is an African word.
They'll slowly start to realize, "Holy shit! We can help make stuff like this! We can stick it to all those white devils who made Windows!"
Soon after they'll begin wearing their pants above their buttocks, speaking in somewhat-intelligible dialect, quit smoking the chronic and drinking the malt liquor, listen to NPR instead of Puff Daddy, drive Priuses instead of '82 Cutlass Supremes, work for a living, and practice birth control!
Soon, we'll have hordes of little Obamas running around our proud nation before racial integration will finally be completed!
Just get the kids to steal whatever you need.
engaged to an inner-city public school teacher.
You should get her a gun. Those inner city kids are going to kill her one day.
Or, perhaps a few entrepreneurial ones will find that they can use them to sell crack or craigslist, or help the young ladies there set up 'personals' ads as providers to make a little money on the side?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........