Great, not only are kids going to become bigger wusses than ever, since the laptops will be used for little more than games and porn, but they will be also be far dumber, too.

Basically, they are all destined to be school board members at some point in their lives.

Some of the schools in our area have outlawed the rolling book bags. They say the things cause congestion in the halls.

$850?? What the hell do these kiddos need with an $850 dollar laptops? These kids don't need fast computers...only entry level laptops to browse some websites, open documents, and do some word processing. If the school can't get that down under $500, they should be ashamed of themselves.









of course, it's not their money they're spending.

MMW - Just a guess but I'd figure that $850 includes all the software and the electronic copies of the texts they'll use. Software usually is the most expensive part of the computer (especially since as a school they'd get into deep doo-doo if they used pirated software like most people seem to do - Disclamer: All of my software is currently legit).

I just moved out of that school district. I think the school they're talking about is a semi-alternative school. Either that or the new one that's under construction/maybe just opened. If it'll actually improve the quality of the education I'd not have that much of a problem with it. Especially considering that AZ is only underspent on education by Mississippi. Course I won't even get into whether the state should even be involved in education in the first place.

They should have just issued the textbooks on CD/DVD. Would have cost about $20 is my guess. Darn near everybody already has a computer at home, and the schools everywhere are full of them. This is a stupid thing done by a stupid school board with way too much money to throw around. But ... it's for the children!!