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those things are super cheap though so idk if buying an actual laptop would have saved money
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Don't those kids just absolutely destroy them anyway? Or sell them?
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Or just don't use them preferring instead their own laptop
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Yes, it's just minimizing costs from kids destroying them. If it's a BIPOC infested school, they'd just get stolen.
Buck Broken black lives matter
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Why not just skip computers all together then and teach from a projector/whiteboard? Sure would save you a lot of money in the long run
Idk I might be out of touch cause it's been a while since I was in school, but we only had computers for IT and the rest was taught directly on a blackboard or through activities. When some digital media was needed to be shown they used either a projector or one of those smart-boards, but even that was relatively rare
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It's sort of central to how high schools are run now - they want high schoolers to check their emails for announcements, to write and submit essays electronically, to visit the class Moodle or equivalent for various reasons, etc. And they can't force students to buy their own laptops because they might be poor so instead they have to buy them to have the kids destroy. For middle school and below it's still the way you describe, at least as far as I'm aware.
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Ah I see... So getting conditioned to the office life even before landing a job? Driving in the idea of checking for emails every hour while the brain is still young and malleable until it becomes a natural reflex?
I hate it
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my last year of attending high school was like this and it made me want to [redacted]
"I assigned homework friday night why didn't you check"
"I added readings in under the date tab under the readings tab and I added "REQUIRED" next to them! You should have done the readings!! Emily did the readings so yall have no excuse! CHECK YOUR ELEARNING CRAPWARE DAILY!!! actually you should be checking more than daily but I'm being generous here... 503 errors? More like attitude error >:("
I want chalkboards and teachers with high heels that don't try to be relatable they teach you grammar and assign work a week in advance with a very set calendar that they don't change on a whim because Kyle, Bridget, and Hayden are holding back the whole class or we need to get it done sooner for reasons because we held a stupid vote where Emily and Cole wanted to cover more content and the rest got bribed with a bonus day for going faster where we have snacks and watch some DUMB FRICKING MOVIE that makes me want to claw my eyes out
i HATE movies in school
i wanted chalkboards
i hate chromebooks
i wanted grey haired people wearing tweed to beat people who annoy me with paddles
i hate tiny windows and teachers that turn the lights down because students beg and cry otherwise because they are becoming cave people
i wanted gigantic windows blasting sun and clean air onto you
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Are you a zoomer? I grew up with blackboards and no computers outside of labs and it was pretty sweet
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You can type 10,000 characters and you decided that these were the one's that you wanted.
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Went to a public school with gigantic windows...
Saw desks, book-bags, and kids all thrown through said windows. It was the windows fault every time
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lol i've had this exact issue before.
But Yea I agree entirely
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I didn't have internet growing up and a lot of teachers either couldn't or wouldn't believe it
The saddest words of tongue or pen, uncle ted was right again
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I can't believe you didn't have internet growing up! How did you survive?
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You clearly don't understand how the real world works. If you want to be successful, you need to start developing good work habits now. Checking your email regularly is a basic part of most jobs, so you might as well get used to it.
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If you want me to work, you better frickig pay me for it. Im not checking shit on a sunday without overtime pay and explicitly being trequired to.
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You're not getting paid to do nothing, so if you don't want to work then get the frick out. We don't need lazyass employees like you.
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He dont miss
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It’s called a “1 to 1” program. If anything it does cut down on paper and toner that shit gets expensive too. We also use ehallpass to track the little shits in the hallway big brother style.
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Based, I remember the cameras at my school had a blind spot where you could access 1 camera but not been seen, so every day starting at that camera someone would put tape/glue over every single camera lense.
This was all in protest because the school cut back hard on student clubs to install these cameras and everyone hated them for it
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We had blind spots so someone decided to put up those giant mirrors they have a grocery stores lol.
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We didnt have cameras at all at school
nor any of that locking entrance doors shit.
But then again i also dont live in a shithole.
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From what I've seen the vast majority of Chromebook-using schools also naturally default to Gmail and Google Classroom. The latter of which is itself just a backdoor way for Google to circumvent COPPA but our decrepit government is too r-slurred to understand this.
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Because pen & paper would mean less subscription teaching services for school districts to buy. The industry saw what college students will shell out for teaching materials and realized they can do that to everyone.
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The pen and paper industry is doing just fine, thank you. subscription teaching services are a waste of money and contribute nothing to education. If anything, they further the divide between rich and poor schools.
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I'm sure the textbook industry had education in mind when they coupled non transferable online access codes with mandatory year 1 course textbooks. Oh can't afford the book? I guess you're missing out on 30% of your grade because you can't do the course work.
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If the textbook industry wanted to support education, they would make their books affordable and accessible to all students. But instead, they're creating a barrier to entry for low-income students and preventing them from getting the education they deserve.
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There were apparently times when students could get by entirely on used books. Lots of shit hasn't changed for decades.
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I hated listening to PowerPoint presentations for hours on end with some note taking on paper. Never seemed like an effective way to learn
Chromebooks are for doing work, bideo calls, and research anyway not learning in class
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Because that's not trendy anymore
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Yeah, my old school district used to use Macbooks but apparently switched to Chromebooks over cost. From what I hear the upfront cost wasn't the problem - after all you can use a laptop for several years before it's obsolete - but rather the problem was the cost of replacing or repairing all the computers that were broken or lost (or stolen).
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Yeah they're saying a comparable Windows laptop would be cheaper long term but like how? A $400 laptop is absolute garbage, probably running a Celeron and 4GB or some shit.
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i think youd have to buy toughbooks to get something to consistently survive the abuse of an american schoolchild and the absolute cheapest ones seem to still be around $500
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I see your point, but remember that schools used the low price as rationale for buying far more of them. Many schools bought a chromebook for each student, when they would not have done the same with more substantial computers. Growing up for example we just had computer labs in our schools that had enough for a classroom, so like 400 students would use 50 computers. I would guess that the widescale purchase of chromebooks actually did increase the technology budgets of many schools.
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