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MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks

Posted by Soulskill on from the at-least-it's-not-ipads dept.

An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Salem News: "A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there's a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents' pockets. 'You're kidding me,' parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she'd have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. 'She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another laptop?' Sky has a Dell. Come September 2011, every student will need an Apple. They'll bring it to class and use it for homework. Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. The School Committee approved the move last year, and Hayes said he's getting the news out now so families can prepare. 'We have one platform,' Hayes said. 'And that's going to be the Mac.'"

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:What are they going to do? by SkankinMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would assume that the reason you are so underprivileged is because you failed to learn how to read in school. The article clearly states that the children will be provided with laptops during the school day if they can't buy one. They just can't bring it home since it is school property.

  3. Re:Honestly by easterberry · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't say "the 900 dollar mandatory price tag aside" and then say there's no issue. Putting a statement that you want to ignore the major issue in your post doesn't make it go away.

  4. Please.. by Galestar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Direct your hate mail this way: jim.hayes@beverlyschools.org

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  5. Re:My two cents by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hitler didn't have a laptop in school either, and look how he turned out. Clearly these laptops are necessary.

  6. Re:My two cents by samkass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Albert Einstein didn't have a laptop in school.
    Ben Franklin didn't have a laptop in school.
    Stephen Hawking didn't have a laptop in school.
    Thomas Edison didn't have a laptop in school.
    Nikola Tesla didn't have a laptop in school.
    Even Bill Gates didn't have a laptop in school.

    ...and near as I can tell, not one of them could code worth a crap! :)

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  7. Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger by gandhi_2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't tell if you are joking or not.

    Using tax-payer funds to subsidize personal Macintosh purchases?

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  8. Re:iNelson by FurryOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad you never learned that it was Mark Twain who said it.

  9. Re:iNelson by EventHorizon_pc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has anyone noticed that putting an exclamation after apple's iStuff makes it look like it's in spanish? iCarumba!

  10. Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger by Panaflex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Taxes are voluntary as well... just sayin'.

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  11. Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger by prockcore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Claris ate my homework. Moof.

  12. Re:What are they going to do? by prockcore · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're overstating OSX's abilities... a kid can trash a mac just as easily as a PC. One of our designer's mac's fell to his stupidity just last week. He installed something like 5000 fonts... brought the system to its knees.