And you get to rent your textbooks every year for every student. This will help save some money going forward, but it throws away the current investment in actual textbooks that were perfectly fine.
Every student will need, say, 5 textbooks/year, at a low-ball estimate that's $75/yer per student. If they have 26,000 students that's $75 x 26,000 = $1,950,000/year - how long till the distinct gets tired of writing that check every year? With printed textbooks replacements could be deferred a year or two with no real impact - not so with eTextbooks - don't pay the bill, you don't have the textbook.
It gets real expensive real fast for K-12 schools, college students who buy their own books will come out ahead, but while hey won't have textbooks o turn back in after class for pennies on the dollar, they Los won't have their textbooks or reference after the class is over... Nor will they be able to have two books open at once in font of them.
And hevean knows wat happens if your eBook reader/tablet breaks right before the final exam while you are studying.
We don't have time to wait for 'research' to prove they have value, we have federal dollars flowing into school systems 'for the children' and no one wants to be left behind.
Besides, if thy don't add value, they won't take up much room in the storage closet, right next to the overhead projectors and other tools tat would 'revolutionize' education...
$400 iPad + $50 Bluetooth keyboard + $100 Apple TV + 24" monitor = $550 PC w/ 24" monitor
So now you've saved $0 dollars and built up a 'system' that has three power cords and a keyboard that requires AAA batteries - yay. Job security for the school IT/desktop techs.
eTextbooks are rented at a cost of $15-30/yr, per student. Schools tend to use many textbooks for a number of years, it will be much more expensive to rent a $15/yr textbook for the 7 years they use it vs. the $50 print version they own.
I know, you are just gonna wave your hands and make all textbooks much cheaper, but until you do, this is the reality of eTextbooks. Oh, and good quality tablets are a lot closer to $500/ea that an iPad costs than the $139-200 tablet you saw on woot.com... Hand kids a free laptop to carry with them for 8 hours a day and see how well they take care of it.
First you have to re-do curriculums to use the 'toys' properly, and I work in education, I can tell you for every passionate, forward-looking teach in a school building, there are 4 teachers jut 'doing time, running the same class year after year' and one teacher who actually stinks at their job, yet hold tenure.
I don't understand how sea level can rise (or fall) in any real way in just a certain defined area...
I understand sea levels fluctuate (tides, etc), but in theory shouldn't the entire ocean level rise and fall together?
I suspect at the root of this is a change in the method of measuring sea levels and the increases noted are little more than rounding errors that were influenced by the new measuring method.
Federal law has *always* required LEGAL immigrants to carry their papers, AZ didn't invent the requirement, they simply elected to enforce the pre-existing requirement.
Citizens are documented and can prove citizenship through birth records, driver's licenses, passports, etc. if they don't have them on their person, they can be looked up in moments by authorities.
Illegals have no such supporting documentation available.
BTW, the requirement to carry papers is what immigrants agreed to do when they got admitted to the US - it pre-dates SB 1070...
"If you pay 30000 employees just $1 more per hour, that would come out to roughly $43 million dollars. Tim Cook received $570 million dollars worth of stock, for that money you could pay each apple store employee an extra $12 per hour, for some of them this would be doubling their wages. Go ask Tim Cook if he wants to give up his $570 million bonus just so that his store employees can make $20k more per year. Would you??"
That bonus Tim cook got was one-time expense, raising everyone's salary $20K/year would cost Apple $570M every year going forward. After a couple years, that starts to add up...
So you are choosing to live off your wife's low wages because you want to be an engineer someday.
That is not a typical situation, most people with spouses that earn that little and have no children (since you didn't mention any and failed to list child care as an expense) would take it upon themselves to get a job and contribute to the family budget.
"Minimum wage in this country needs to go up a lot, and millionaires need to return to the days when they were expected to pay 75%+ of their income in taxes to support the society that has made them rich in the first place."
When the government assessed "millionaires" (which meant people making over $150K/year, the cutoff for the top tax rate - there was no special "millionaire rate") the "millionaires" figured out how to hide their income to lower their tax bills, when the rates are lower there's less incentive to try and hide income.
How many jobs will be lost for every dollar the minimum wage increases? What, you think increasing the wage paid to stock boys in grocery stores won't reduce the number of clerks on the payroll?
If a person works their entire career at minimum wage how many millions should they have for retirement?
And why should Apple pay retail clerks walking the floor a wage designed to support a family of four? Do the clerks add THAT MUCH value to the proposition that they deserve $20-25/hr + benefits?
Should Apple ignore the near inexhaustible supply of willing and able workers that will take the job for $12/hour?
If Apple were to double retail clerk pay ($12 -> $25/hr) do you think Apple would keep the same number of clerks, halve the number of clerks or create more clerk positions? My money is on halving the number of clerks in the store.
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And you get to rent your textbooks every year for every student. This will help save some money going forward, but it throws away the current investment in actual textbooks that were perfectly fine.
Every student will need, say, 5 textbooks/year, at a low-ball estimate that's $75/yer per student. If they have 26,000 students that's $75 x 26,000 = $1,950,000/year - how long till the distinct gets tired of writing that check every year? With printed textbooks replacements could be deferred a year or two with no real impact - not so with eTextbooks - don't pay the bill, you don't have the textbook.
You RENT eTextbooks per student per year.
It gets real expensive real fast for K-12 schools, college students who buy their own books will come out ahead, but while hey won't have textbooks o turn back in after class for pennies on the dollar, they Los won't have their textbooks or reference after the class is over... Nor will they be able to have two books open at once in font of them.
And hevean knows wat happens if your eBook reader/tablet breaks right before the final exam while you are studying.
But hey, you can play Angry Birds on it!
Run the numbers to 'rent' eTextbooks and buy/maintain ereaders/tablets v. Traditional books.
Actual textbooks are much more affordable. Much more.
We don't have time to wait for 'research' to prove they have value, we have federal dollars flowing into school systems 'for the children' and no one wants to be left behind.
Besides, if thy don't add value, they won't take up much room in the storage closet, right next to the overhead projectors and other tools tat would 'revolutionize' education...
Never go full retard
This is in a school setting - no TXTing speak, proper english required.
$400 iPad + $50 Bluetooth keyboard + $100 Apple TV + 24" monitor = $550 PC w/ 24" monitor
So now you've saved $0 dollars and built up a 'system' that has three power cords and a keyboard that requires AAA batteries - yay. Job security for the school IT/desktop techs.
eTextbooks are rented at a cost of $15-30/yr, per student. Schools tend to use many textbooks for a number of years, it will be much more expensive to rent a $15/yr textbook for the 7 years they use it vs. the $50 print version they own.
I know, you are just gonna wave your hands and make all textbooks much cheaper, but until you do, this is the reality of eTextbooks. Oh, and good quality tablets are a lot closer to $500/ea that an iPad costs than the $139-200 tablet you saw on woot.com... Hand kids a free laptop to carry with them for 8 hours a day and see how well they take care of it.
First you have to re-do curriculums to use the 'toys' properly, and I work in education, I can tell you for every passionate, forward-looking teach in a school building, there are 4 teachers jut 'doing time, running the same class year after year' and one teacher who actually stinks at their job, yet hold tenure.
Carnegie, Hughes, and others ARE remembered as philanthropists, despite business dealings while they were alive.
America is tilting into the ocean - if it can happen to Guam it can happen to America!
I don't understand how sea level can rise (or fall) in any real way in just a certain defined area...
I understand sea levels fluctuate (tides, etc), but in theory shouldn't the entire ocean level rise and fall together?
I suspect at the root of this is a change in the method of measuring sea levels and the increases noted are little more than rounding errors that were influenced by the new measuring method.
Federal law has *always* required LEGAL immigrants to carry their papers, AZ didn't invent the requirement, they simply elected to enforce the pre-existing requirement.
Citizens are documented and can prove citizenship through birth records, driver's licenses, passports, etc. if they don't have them on their person, they can be looked up in moments by authorities.
Illegals have no such supporting documentation available.
BTW, the requirement to carry papers is what immigrants agreed to do when they got admitted to the US - it pre-dates SB 1070...
This is 2012, not 2008...
The requirement for legal immigrants to carry their papers with them pre-dates SB 1070 by a few decades...
Yeah, because rich MILFs are attracted to low-paid retail clerks. In turtlenecks. At the mall.
And yes, they are rich, because they are spending money in an Apple store...
So you are choosing to live off your wife's low wages because you want to be an engineer someday.
That is not a typical situation, most people with spouses that earn that little and have no children (since you didn't mention any and failed to list child care as an expense) would take it upon themselves to get a job and contribute to the family budget.
When the government assessed "millionaires" (which meant people making over $150K/year, the cutoff for the top tax rate - there was no special "millionaire rate") the "millionaires" figured out how to hide their income to lower their tax bills, when the rates are lower there's less incentive to try and hide income.
How many jobs will be lost for every dollar the minimum wage increases? What, you think increasing the wage paid to stock boys in grocery stores won't reduce the number of clerks on the payroll?
If a person works their entire career at minimum wage how many millions should they have for retirement?
$15-16 at Tiffany was a swipe at Tiffany as well...
What about working a second job? Why isn't that an option?
Every job isn't worth a living wage, requiring employers to pay a living wage makes those low-paying jobs go away.
WHat effect does "no job" have on the crime rate?
Who said $12/hour was a "living wage"?
And why should Apple pay retail clerks walking the floor a wage designed to support a family of four? Do the clerks add THAT MUCH value to the proposition that they deserve $20-25/hr + benefits?
Should Apple ignore the near inexhaustible supply of willing and able workers that will take the job for $12/hour?
If Apple were to double retail clerk pay ($12 -> $25/hr) do you think Apple would keep the same number of clerks, halve the number of clerks or create more clerk positions? My money is on halving the number of clerks in the store.
"Exponential growth" sounds more like a sex ed topic than math...
I thought it was about a sound engineer for concerts?