Laptops for high school students?

[Flannel Boy]

Some schools have given every one of their students a laptop to "bridge the digital divide", or whatever. Well kids just use them to look at porn, play games, and instant message each other. These laptops do not appear to improve school performance.

In one of the largest ongoing studies, the Texas Center for Educational Research, a nonprofit group, has so far found no overall difference on state test scores between 21 middle schools where students received laptops in 2004, and 21 schools where they did not

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/education/04laptop.html

Politicians... sigh. Let's give every student a laptop, that should make the students smarter, right? It is a costly program that does not seem to have any tangible benefits.

[Mupepe]

giving children more distractions will make them concentrate on school work more? 


edit: and put some fucking firewalls and good restrictions on those fucking laptops.

[Phoenix Dark]

WHY

How about they try to ensure every child has a freaking text book and access to a free tutor

[Madrun Badrun]

I bought my own laptop to take to school the last 2 years - I can't read my own writing 

[Mupepe]

free tutors?  WHY MICHELLE?  SO THEY CAN JUST HAVE SEX WITH THEM?

[Phoenix Dark]

Kids don't need labtops. Have a computer lab...or if you're cheap, just offer internet access inside the fucking SCHOOL LIBRARY

[Van Cruncheon]

kids need a good old-fashioned military-style whippin'

and by kids i mean phoenix dark

[BlueTsunami]

They brought the hardware to the kids without thinking about the software implementation. Lock the laptops down.

You cannot Install ANYTHING
You can only visit these sites or these certain sites are blocked (MySpace hurr!)
You have NO privileges on this laptop

Its no surprise that no one had thought of this beforhand. Yes! lets give a bunch of kids laptops! They won't misuse them!

[Flannel Boy]

They brought the hardware to the kids without thinking about the software implementation. Lock the laptops down.

You cannot Install ANYTHING
You can only visit these sites or these certain sites are blocked (MySpace hurr!)
You have NO privileges on this laptop

Its no surprise that no one had thought of this beforhand. Yes! lets give a bunch of kids laptops! They won't misuse them!

The kids got around the restrictions that they placed on the laptops.

[Mupepe]

They brought the hardware to the kids without thinking about the software implementation. Lock the laptops down.

You cannot Install ANYTHING
You can only visit these sites or these certain sites are blocked (MySpace hurr!)
You have NO privileges on this laptop

Its no surprise that no one had thought of this beforhand. Yes! lets give a bunch of kids laptops! They won't misuse them!

The kids got around the restrictions that they placed on the laptops.

they should hire a better IT team

[Himu]

Are these older generation people REALLY this dense? I mean, come the fuck on.
 
The key phrase for the generation older than us (our parents) for raising us seems to be, LET'S GIVE THEM THINGS WE DIDN'T HAVE when what they had was what we NEEDED. This entire bs has completely ruined everything, from quality of schools to the way we're raised. What you REALLY need to concentrate on, old foggies, is WE NEED TO GIVE THE KIDS WE HAD SO WE CAN HELP THEM GROW AS INDIVIDUALS. You're the very reason we have manbaby ass fuck girls who say they're guys these days.

I don't know why the whole thing pisses me off.

[BlueTsunami]

They brought the hardware to the kids without thinking about the software implementation. Lock the laptops down.

You cannot Install ANYTHING
You can only visit these sites or these certain sites are blocked (MySpace hurr!)
You have NO privileges on this laptop

Its no surprise that no one had thought of this beforhand. Yes! lets give a bunch of kids laptops! They won't misuse them!

The kids got around the restrictions that they placed on the laptops.

Oh snapplecakes. Thats just awesome then. IT FAILS

[Scurvy Stan]

Just give them really old piece of shit ones that can run anything cool. Kinda hard to IM your friend the funny youtube videos you found if the thing bluescreens every time you log in.

[xnikki118x]

WHY

How about they try to ensure every child has a freaking text book and access to a free tutor

Seriously! [I can't believe I just agreed with you. :'(]

[brawndolicious]

I know this one french high school somebody I know goes to and they give everybody a ibook so at least it doesn't get viruses but it's mostly used for non-school purposes.  They should have proprietary software with $200 laptops that can only connect to the school's wireless network if they want it to be worth it.