New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead 236
Timex writes "According to an article from the Portland [Maine] Press Herald, some seventh-graders in New Hampshire will be issued laptops in January. 19 school districts have been invited to submit proposals, and up to five of them will be chosen to lead the way in New Hampshire. Cabletron Systems co-founder and NH Governor Craig Benson is getting funding for the four-year project from corporate donations. So far, he's gathered about half of the estimated $1.2 million estimated cost."
Excellent news (Score:3, Funny)
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mommy. . (Score:3, Funny)
It's about time... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Better be Macs (Score:5, Funny)
Namely, backwards.
Re:Excellent news (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, where's the struggle with one of those iBooks? Heckm they're so easy to use even the most non-technical person can be productive.
No, what they need are cheap, noname-brand laptops with Gentoo Linux! Heck, even Gentoo makes it too easy. Make 'em to LFS!
That'll teach 'em!
Re:Excellent news (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, good times.
Re:Excellent news (Score:2, Funny)
Assembly Language! Hah! We were lucky if we were given 15 minutes to divine the hexadecimal opcodes for the 6502 instruction set before we were expected to write our own multiplayer FPS!
How's that for a turn? (Score:5, Funny)
My principal's famous last words:
"You need to learn to do this without a computer. When you grow up and get a job, is your computer going to be there to do your work for you then?"
heh
Book Covers (Score:3, Funny)
'Cuz, they gotta turn them back in, right?
Danger! (Score:4, Funny)
Start sand bagging (Score:4, Funny)
Attention all sixth-graders everywhere: If your parents pay a lot of property taxes, make sure you do poorly on your tests. Maybe next year you'll be rewarded with a laptop!
Re:Would be good if... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i am a school teacher (Score:1, Funny)