On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > The real issue is that the > computers are required at all, and students are required to have them, take > them home, use them for school work, especially since there is very little > evidence that using the computers aids students in learning > more/better/faster.
Since the students are required to use the provided computers, and none other, to do their homework, how would any student be able to do their homework if their parents had failed to pay the $55 insurance fee which meant that the computer was not allowed to leave the school grounds? Why punish the student in such a fashion for a failure on the part of the parents? Why wasn't the cost of insurance, a pittance compared to what the school system paid for each computer, simply paid by the school? After all, the computers belonged to the school, not to the student or his or her parents. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
