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The Wi-Fi On the Bus
theodp writes "For students who endure hundreds of hours on a school bus each year in a desert exurb of Tucson, the Wi-Fi on the bus improves the ride. Last fall, school officials mounted a $200 mobile Internet router from Autonet Mobile to bus No. 92's sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. What began as a hi-tech experiment has had an unexpected result — Wi-Fi has transformed the formerly boisterous bus rides into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared. 'Boys aren't hitting each other, girls are busy, and there's not so much jumping around,' said J. J. Johnson, the Internet Bus driver."
+++ MOD PARENT UP!!!
This is just so typical. Let's not teach children to behave, have patience. imagination, read books, or anything else. Let's just DISTRACT/ENTERTAIN them.
And how many people think that the majority of the kids are using it to do homework or research or learning?
So what is novel about this, the WiFi on the bus, or the fact that it is a school bus? Internet access is getting more and more widespread, this was only a matter of time. http://www.oxfordtube.com/wifi.html I used WiFi on a bus to Oxford two years ago.
I graduated from college in the winter of 2006. With the exception of the computer science department, very few college students needed personal laptops at school.
Why should primary or secondary school students lug laptops from home to school and back when most schools have controlled computer labs and most towns have public libraries? The complexity and cost of distributing and maintaining laptops seems unnecessary.
Laptops and per-bus wifi seem like an expensive way to lessen the dullness of trips to and from school.
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
Learned how to suck your own dick yet? You sure are good at patting yourself on the back.
When you take your new-found social skills and get a family, I hope your wife gets shot, and your daughters raped and I sit on the jury.
At which point I will acquit on all charges, because OBVIOUSLY the crime is the fault of the victim and not the perpetrator. I know you will agree.
People like you, who fail to punish the vicious are the reason the world sucks.
Have a nice day. :)