> They tried something like that in Niagara Falls - know > what happened? > A freshman dropped his laptop straight down the opening in > the > school's 4 story stairwell, "just to see if it would > break". They had > something like 50 laptops go missing in the first > semester.
> Hopefully Tuscon has worked out a better material control > method than > Niagara Falls did! The last time I'd heard about something like this it was somewhere here in Florida... iirc... it's been a while... but I believe I remember hearing that they were using pretty inexpensive machines and had set them up so that they were basically useless outside the school grounds... but then if they've eliminated the textbooks entirely having the machines only work on campus would eliminate homework assignments. Woohoo! I hope that's the case... you know, they always say homework is supposed to prepare you for the real world, but then who's real world are we talking about? Because any decent job doesn't demand that you take you work home with you every single night. Plus in the real world you don't have to suddenly drop everything and go do something else every hour on the hour... you know... in retrospect, for something that's supposed to prepare kids for "the real world" I can hardly think of an environment that's less like the real world than high-school. But I digress... s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Studio MX with Flash Pro from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=51 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:164842 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
