bet none of you have this luxury

[Mojojojo]

yeah, i'm sitting down in my schools cafe. playing w/ a laptop, thats mine till i graduate..hjahahahahahahahaha

Eric

[shartley]

Take care of it.... you break it, you BUY it. LOL

I think it is a good idea, and actually many schools are doing it... I hope it becomes standard.

Of course I have been keeping track of student test scores over the past 5 years and they keep going down... but our kids are getting smarter, right? Shows that technology is not the only answer to things, and does not make kids smarter.... it is just a tool. You need to build on a solid foundation.

Seems like the smartest students now days (by test scores) are about at the level of the average student when I was in school.... and we did not even HAVE computers. Where does that leave the average student now days?

Want to look at something interesting? Check out your State's Educational Improvement and Assessment Program(s). My Son is bright, and gets A's... but even HE scored Novice to Basic... and that is while getting A's! I leave it up to each parent to check into this themselves.... it says a lot about our current Educational System.

Oh... sorry, I got sidetracked there, didn't I? LOL Back on topic... Yes, laptops are a great tool, and will help if used correctly.

[BlueMagRT]

i had a laptop in school it was nice to have during a study period or something to get work done but it was just more of a distraction in class. i always had some thing better to do on the laptop than to listen to the boring teachers.

[cphilip]

I was about to agree with you Sam about the kids being dumber..um...er...I mean "more average" these days and then all the sudden I got a flash back to 1972 and me and Sally Martin (God bless her... wonder where she is today...um er I digress as well!) anyway its me an her skipping school and sipping a bottle of Boones Farm (remember that?) and trying to hunt Mushrooms out in a cow field up in Crestview Florida and getting run off at gun point by the Farmer...anyways... you get the point... Not smart eh? Some stuff never changes.

[shartley]

LOLROF!!!! PHIL! You brought back memories with that one.

I was not talking about "smarts".. LOL I was talking about.....

.... mushrooms... Yeah! THOSE red ones are okay to eat!

HeeHee

But check this out..... remember getting a smoking pass? And being able to go out to the smoke barrels? Those with permission slips could both chew tobacco AND smoke.

Times have changed for sure.

But that has nothing to do with our test scores. LOL

[bofh]

Originally posted by shartley
... could both chew tobacco AND smoke.

At the same time? That's crazy people talk.

[shartley]

LOL I guess OR would have been better, and more accurate. Unless they had some strong nicotine addiction. LOL

But they would definitely be dateless.

[cphilip]

Well...there are a few folks down here that will chew and chug beer at the same time...Ewwwwwww...

I remeber "Smokers Corner". It was across the street and you could only smoke off school grounds. But you were not allowed to leave school grounds. Confusing... Bright side is today no smoking in schools or on school proerty..again...history repeats itself.

Do Not Eat the Red Ones!!!!

[PyRo]

Problem with laptops is going to be theft, them breaking down due to either abuse or mechanical problems. Not everyone is going to have the $2000 to replace the thing (lots of low income Hispanics here), and what happens to them then, they arn't allowed to graduate or something?

[PyRo]

As for the good old days stories coughtSHARTLEYcough stop with them. When I was young I walked 7 miles to school barefoot, up hill both ways. When I was young we didn't have air, thats what wrogn with you kids nowdays, your always breathing. Back in my day we were all smart, we just forgot everything.
/me does a skit
Little Timmy- "Dad, can you help me with math"
Father- "Ok, but back in my day we didn't get help, we had to figure it out ourselves"
Timmy- "Heres the question, 3/4x+5/<2x+1 solve for X"
Father- "Umm uhh I ""forgot"" how to do this"

[bornl33t]

Also back in the days you didn't move out till you were married, I've been living on my own for close to 5 years now and am only 22, I bought my first car straight up when I was 18, dad never let me use his. Paid my way through what collage I have compleated, ALONE. All this in a suburban community were the riches flow.... 'xept in my pocket.

Times change, there's a give and take to everything.
I specially like a little tune my Baz Luhrman: " you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were knoble and kids respecetd their parents, respect you're parents"

There's no denying it, we are the future, like it or not.

[$pam]

Yep I have that luxury, too. I have one that I got through a school program. I was picked as one of the top twenty students in the county and we were given laptops (Dell Latitudes, woohoo! these babies are 3000 dollars) and during the summer we go to a college for a week to take classes.

[irbodden]

Hmm.. the top 20 get labtops eh? Around here, kids with "special needs" get labtops, or those who hand writing is just too "darn" messy. Again, many kids carry around their own labtops and PDAs, but I dont think tugging a computer around with ya is the answer to messy handwriting. My school already has a disgusting amount of computers, I'll get the real numbers, but I'd say our school owns well over 2k computer and labtops. The technology is at our disposal, yet I dont feel its right to become dependent on a piece of plastic and wire.

[prikkaboo]

depribed here in hawaii

hehe thats funny, you guys get laptops to bring around with you and we have to use the old ibms where the monitor is built into the whole computer after theyve been rebuilt and had semi modern chips put in. hehe windows 95 with 16 colors. To make it worse they're computers that used to be from the one of the other high schools on the island so i guess they donated them to us. Our computer lab teacher doesn't even know how to work em he just tells us which one is working for the day. yup we've got it made.hehe

[gimp]

I have that luxury. I hook it up in class and play games and stuff. We have a bar on campus with ethernet connections in it too. By the time you graduate that things gonna be pretty darn old. I get a new one my junior year.