Yopu mean like how we now have a new ethnicity flying around the collective consciousness called "White Hispanic" - because "Hispanic shoots Black Youth" sells far fewer papers than "White (Hispanic) shoots Black Youth"?
See this article in to learn how backwards conservatives are for acting like they never heard of this before, as the writer notes "it even has a wikipedia page"...
I thought home schoolers would be more receptive. They, as a group, are even more conservative, and are likely to condemn any and all use of IT in education.
with zero dollars available to even give teachers raises
Because the first thisng a school district will do if it had some "extra" money they'd give teachers pay raises,,,
In my (New Jersey) district first-year teachers make $50K, a teacher with 18 years experience and a BA makes almost $90K, and every year (EVERY YEAR by 2-4%) the salary scale marches up. When they retire, they get (Average of last three years salary times (55/years of service) when they turn 65 (along with lifetime medical coverage)., Do some people make more? Absolutely, but the average household income in New Jersey is $60K/year - after five years on the job, our teachers are taking home above average salaries.
Some deserve more, other deserve less, but I wouldn't call these numbers "paupers" wages.
My local school district has 3 full-time desktop technicians supporting about 1,500 desktops for a district with 4,000 students and about 500 teachers, aids, staff and administrators. In addition they have a DBA/analyst, Windows Admin and Mac Admin.
In addition to desktops and laptops, they are also responsible for the A/V across the campus - projectors and smartboards in nearly every classroom.
We somehow managed to create the atomicbomb, put a man on the moon and cured polio, all without computers in the classroom or a federal Department of Education... How?
With a sample size of ONE, he has extrapolated that every public school is exactly like his child's school.
Using the same logic, every school in America provides every child with an email address, ha computers in every classroom, posts student grades on a secure web portal (infinite campus), and has a "virtual backpack" that school announcements are put in (dynamic web pages, one per school/grade)... How do Icome to this conclusion? Because that is what my school district provides/offers...
I know, let's offer free/low-cost health care coverage for people that make less than 3x the federal poverty level - we could call it SCHIP & pay for it with cigarette tax revenue.
Then we could offer massively subsidized health care coverage for the elderly, paid for in part by payroll tax deductions, and we could call that Medicare.
Then, we could make high-risk insurance pools run by the states to offer coverage for folks with Pre-existing conditions - just like 36 states did before Obamacare passed.
And, we could define 'dependent child' to go up to the age of 26, like several states did prior to the passage of Obamacare.
And, since that won't cover every situation, we could pour billions per year into 'free' clinics - hundreds of billions.
Then there still will be a few people that fall through the cracks - let's make that hospitals are required to treat any patient that presents themselves at an emergency room for treatment, without regard for their ability to pay for the services rendered.
But that still won't cover everyone, so let's require every person in America to buy health insurance, with subsidies provided for lower-income families...
That should do it, right?
Oh, I wish our health care system did these things already...
It was said in the SCOTUS hearing last week that the average young, healthy participant in a healthcare plan will pay, on average, $5,800 in annual premiums in 2014, yet the actual cost/value of the coverage they receive will be around $850... How long will it take twenty-somethings to figure that out and become angered by it and/or efuse to participate?
Many (not, by any stretch all) who are uninsured understand this math - they choose to be uninsured because they couldn't afford to be insured and contribute $5K to pay for other's coverage...
You have to be real careful comparing anything with Medicare for several reasons:
A) To qualify for Medicare you have to be in your sixties (with some exceptions, but true for the vast majority of enrollees)
B) Medicare takes everyone, with a large percentage (aka not an insignificant percentage) of enrollees coming from being uninsured/self- insured - they likely come with Pre-existing and previously untreated problems
C) Medicare has a policy of pay any invoice submitted, which results in a staggering level of waste and fraud which leads to skewed costs for treatments, as compared with priivate healthcare coverage plans that aggressively investigate fraud and abuse
It's fine to compare other populations with Medicare, but keep those properties of Medicare in mind when you compare things with it.
They asked for access to her Facebook accounts, she refused - three times. She could have provided access without having to give up her password, in the form of "Here, look, it's a very innocent post - I don't know what the parent I friended took offense with."
She crossed the line when she started friending parents of children at her school. She didn't do anything wrong, but she opened the door to world of issues by treating the parents of her students as if they were old college chums.
The picture exists - follow the link and read the article.
Where was the picture taken? On school property? In the locker room or bathroom?
Does the school have a policy about taking pics of people in the school bathroom/locker room?
The school heard there was evidence the teacher posted pictures of a semi-naked coworker that looked like it was taken on school property. The district wanted to investigate that claim, the teacher's aide resisted, so as the supervisor said, the district had no choice but to assume the worst and tried to put her on paid administrative leave. She refused paid leave for unemployment.
How did she qualify for unemployment if she was fired "for cause"?
I'm reminded of the teachers that were raising holy heck because one state wanted to prevent teachers from knowingly friending students in the schools they teach in, with the reason being there was no way for the district to review the interactions between their teachers and students... As if there is a crying need for a teacher to let her students in on her flirting with a coworker (the photo that provoked the parent to complain)...
She jokingly posted a picture of a co-worker’s pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes, with the caption “Thinking of you.”
Ask yourself where the teacher got the picture of the partially undressed coworker - if ti was snapped in the bathroom at school, I suspect there are laws against that (taking pictures of others in locker rooms, bathrooms, etc.)...
Teachers need to understand the idea of boundries.
A teacher that chooses to go on Facebook has every right to post anything they want - period.
A teacher that chooses to go on Facebook has every right to "friend" anyone they want - period.
A teacher needs to understand that if they friend parents or students from the schools/school district they work in, everything they post and everyone they friend is not just a reflection of the teacher themself, but also of the school and school district they work for. The teacher may feel it robs them of some "rights", and they may be right, but in effect the parents in their community are their bosses, and there are certain things you just don't do in front of (or with) your boss.
Animals in the wild know not to "poop" where they eat, sadly,,there appear to be teachers that need to learn that lesson.
Out of curiousity, where did she snap the picture of her co-worker's pants around their ankles? Per chance at work? Maybe in the bathroom?
If my suspicions are correct, she went into a school bathroom and snapped a picture of a partially undressed co-worker - any chance her district has a policy for staff and students regarding cameras in school bathrooms?
If it misses you on the way in, it will get you on the way out.
By creating a 'choke point' where only one student can go through at a time (turnstile?) the reader can be assumed accurate, but if you want a backup plan, video record the faces of students that pass through the door...
Don't tell the kids there are 'magic transmitters' in their school uniforms - they'll just take off the RFID tag-laden article of clothing and put it in a friends backpack...
And the teachers will wonder how her computer says every student is in the class when half the seats are empty?
- MASSIVELY cheaper than the competition, making the switch will save you LOTS of money, and lots of work in the long term, although setup requires more effort
And the day the average user reaches into their pocket to pay for an OS, rather than have it bundked with their hardware purchase, that just might matter.
The only people that buy retail copies of Windows OS are people that either need a specific version for work OR are building their own system. When a new OS comes out, people use it as a sign to update their computer, they don't run out and buy a retail pack on launch day...
Force? They offer steep discounts on OS licenses if the OEm agrees to put the OS on every model in a given line. They also subsidise advertising for computer models that include Windows when it is prominently included in the ad.
They aren't forced, they are seduced - and they go willingly, because if they don't their competitor will have a distinct price advantage, a big box maker like Dell can pay $25-40 for the OS when MS discounts it, $60-80 if they don't - that 's a lot of money to make up when competing on specs on otherwise commodity hardware.
No cost? 90% of Windows buyers do not see Windows as a line item on their system purchase, so to them it is free, since the hardware they want isn't available without WIndows,
Best "alternate" driver support - whoop-dee-do - Windows has driver support from the manufacturers.
#1 OS for clusters and super-computing? So what? How many non-slashdot readers have clusters or super-computers at home?
Std. platform for virtualization - not if you want to run virtual Windows servers - MS have very generous licensing terms that allow for multiple Windows Server VMs to run for free if they are hosted by Hyper-V (Windows Server Enterprise has license to run 4 Windows Server VMs on one box for no additional cost - running 4 VMs of Windows Server Enterprise on a Linux/VMware host will require you to buy four server licenses.
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...and the money to buy these tablets will be diverted from what charity/need? Clean Water? Housing? Education? Medicine?
Yopu mean like how we now have a new ethnicity flying around the collective consciousness called "White Hispanic" - because "Hispanic shoots Black Youth" sells far fewer papers than "White (Hispanic) shoots Black Youth"?
See this article in to learn how backwards conservatives are for acting like they never heard of this before, as the writer notes "it even has a wikipedia page"...
What a staggeringly ignorant statement.
http://www.k12.com/
http://www.pavcsk12.org/
http://www.ncspe.org/publications_files/Cyber%20and%20Home%20Charters.pdf
The average cost per student in America is $12-13K, oddly, failing schools spend more for worse results.
with zero dollars available to even give teachers raises
Because the first thisng a school district will do if it had some "extra" money they'd give teachers pay raises,,,
In my (New Jersey) district first-year teachers make $50K, a teacher with 18 years experience and a BA makes almost $90K, and every year (EVERY YEAR by 2-4%) the salary scale marches up. When they retire, they get (Average of last three years salary times (55/years of service) when they turn 65 (along with lifetime medical coverage)., Do some people make more? Absolutely, but the average household income in New Jersey is $60K/year - after five years on the job, our teachers are taking home above average salaries.
Some deserve more, other deserve less, but I wouldn't call these numbers "paupers" wages.
My local school district has 3 full-time desktop technicians supporting about 1,500 desktops for a district with 4,000 students and about 500 teachers, aids, staff and administrators. In addition they have a DBA/analyst, Windows Admin and Mac Admin.
In addition to desktops and laptops, they are also responsible for the A/V across the campus - projectors and smartboards in nearly every classroom.
We somehow managed to create the atomicbomb, put a man on the moon and cured polio, all without computers in the classroom or a federal Department of Education... How?
With a sample size of ONE, he has extrapolated that every public school is exactly like his child's school.
Using the same logic, every school in America provides every child with an email address, ha computers in every classroom, posts student grades on a secure web portal (infinite campus), and has a "virtual backpack" that school announcements are put in (dynamic web pages, one per school/grade)... How do Icome to this conclusion? Because that is what my school district provides/offers...
We should do something about that...
I know, let's offer free/low-cost health care coverage for people that make less than 3x the federal poverty level - we could call it SCHIP & pay for it with cigarette tax revenue.
Then we could offer massively subsidized health care coverage for the elderly, paid for in part by payroll tax deductions, and we could call that Medicare.
Then, we could make high-risk insurance pools run by the states to offer coverage for folks with Pre-existing conditions - just like 36 states did before Obamacare passed.
And, we could define 'dependent child' to go up to the age of 26, like several states did prior to the passage of Obamacare.
And, since that won't cover every situation, we could pour billions per year into 'free' clinics - hundreds of billions.
Then there still will be a few people that fall through the cracks - let's make that hospitals are required to treat any patient that presents themselves at an emergency room for treatment, without regard for their ability to pay for the services rendered.
But that still won't cover everyone, so let's require every person in America to buy health insurance, with subsidies provided for lower-income families...
That should do it, right?
Oh, I wish our health care system did these things already...
It was said in the SCOTUS hearing last week that the average young, healthy participant in a healthcare plan will pay, on average, $5,800 in annual premiums in 2014, yet the actual cost/value of the coverage they receive will be around $850... How long will it take twenty-somethings to figure that out and become angered by it and/or efuse to participate?
Many (not, by any stretch all) who are uninsured understand this math - they choose to be uninsured because they couldn't afford to be insured and contribute $5K to pay for other's coverage...
You have to be real careful comparing anything with Medicare for several reasons:
A) To qualify for Medicare you have to be in your sixties (with some exceptions, but true for the vast majority of enrollees)
B) Medicare takes everyone, with a large percentage (aka not an insignificant percentage) of enrollees coming from being uninsured/self- insured - they likely come with Pre-existing and previously untreated problems
C) Medicare has a policy of pay any invoice submitted, which results in a staggering level of waste and fraud which leads to skewed costs for treatments, as compared with priivate healthcare coverage plans that aggressively investigate fraud and abuse
It's fine to compare other populations with Medicare, but keep those properties of Medicare in mind when you compare things with it.
They asked for access to her Facebook accounts, she refused - three times. She could have provided access without having to give up her password, in the form of "Here, look, it's a very innocent post - I don't know what the parent I friended took offense with."
She crossed the line when she started friending parents of children at her school. She didn't do anything wrong, but she opened the door to world of issues by treating the parents of her students as if they were old college chums.
What union? She was a teacher's Aide
The picture exists - follow the link and read the article.
Where was the picture taken? On school property? In the locker room or bathroom?
Does the school have a policy about taking pics of people in the school bathroom/locker room?
The school heard there was evidence the teacher posted pictures of a semi-naked coworker that looked like it was taken on school property. The district wanted to investigate that claim, the teacher's aide resisted, so as the supervisor said, the district had no choice but to assume the worst and tried to put her on paid administrative leave. She refused paid leave for unemployment.
How did she qualify for unemployment if she was fired "for cause"?
How about a "Ms. Hester" account for school-related posts and another called "Kimberly Hester" account for her personal/non-work related posts?
She could take a lesson from "Independent George" from Seinfeld...
I'm reminded of the teachers that were raising holy heck because one state wanted to prevent teachers from knowingly friending students in the schools they teach in, with the reason being there was no way for the district to review the interactions between their teachers and students... As if there is a crying need for a teacher to let her students in on her flirting with a coworker (the photo that provoked the parent to complain)...
Ask yourself where the teacher got the picture of the partially undressed coworker - if ti was snapped in the bathroom at school, I suspect there are laws against that (taking pictures of others in locker rooms, bathrooms, etc.)...
What triggered this - remember? It was a post of a partially-dress co-worker...
Where was that picture taken? In a bathroom at an elementary school?
Did the co-worker approve of her taking and posting the picture?
Does the district have a policy about taking pictures in their bathrooms?
Teachers need to understand the idea of boundries.
A teacher that chooses to go on Facebook has every right to post anything they want - period.
A teacher that chooses to go on Facebook has every right to "friend" anyone they want - period.
A teacher needs to understand that if they friend parents or students from the schools/school district they work in, everything they post and everyone they friend is not just a reflection of the teacher themself, but also of the school and school district they work for. The teacher may feel it robs them of some "rights", and they may be right, but in effect the parents in their community are their bosses, and there are certain things you just don't do in front of (or with) your boss.
Animals in the wild know not to "poop" where they eat, sadly, ,there appear to be teachers that need to learn that lesson.
Out of curiousity, where did she snap the picture of her co-worker's pants around their ankles? Per chance at work? Maybe in the bathroom?
If my suspicions are correct, she went into a school bathroom and snapped a picture of a partially undressed co-worker - any chance her district has a policy for staff and students regarding cameras in school bathrooms?
If it misses you on the way in, it will get you on the way out.
By creating a 'choke point' where only one student can go through at a time (turnstile?) the reader can be assumed accurate, but if you want a backup plan, video record the faces of students that pass through the door...
And the liberal mentality is they are the wards of the state - the state will provide all their needs, in a manner the state finds appropriate.
Whee! It's fun to make up positions for other people, I can see why you do that trepidity...
Don't tell the kids there are 'magic transmitters' in their school uniforms - they'll just take off the RFID tag-laden article of clothing and put it in a friends backpack...
And the teachers will wonder how her computer says every student is in the class when half the seats are empty?
And the day the average user reaches into their pocket to pay for an OS, rather than have it bundked with their hardware purchase, that just might matter.
The only people that buy retail copies of Windows OS are people that either need a specific version for work OR are building their own system. When a new OS comes out, people use it as a sign to update their computer, they don't run out and buy a retail pack on launch day...
Force? They offer steep discounts on OS licenses if the OEm agrees to put the OS on every model in a given line. They also subsidise advertising for computer models that include Windows when it is prominently included in the ad.
They aren't forced, they are seduced - and they go willingly, because if they don't their competitor will have a distinct price advantage, a big box maker like Dell can pay $25-40 for the OS when MS discounts it, $60-80 if they don't - that 's a lot of money to make up when competing on specs on otherwise commodity hardware.
POSIX - How many people develop FOR POSIX?
No cost? 90% of Windows buyers do not see Windows as a line item on their system purchase, so to them it is free, since the hardware they want isn't available without WIndows,
Best "alternate" driver support - whoop-dee-do - Windows has driver support from the manufacturers.
#1 OS for clusters and super-computing? So what? How many non-slashdot readers have clusters or super-computers at home?
Std. platform for virtualization - not if you want to run virtual Windows servers - MS have very generous licensing terms that allow for multiple Windows Server VMs to run for free if they are hosted by Hyper-V (Windows Server Enterprise has license to run 4 Windows Server VMs on one box for no additional cost - running 4 VMs of Windows Server Enterprise on a Linux/VMware host will require you to buy four server licenses.