MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks 1217
An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Salem News:
"A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there's a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents' pockets. 'You're kidding me,' parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she'd have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. 'She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another laptop?' Sky has a Dell. Come September 2011, every student will need an Apple. They'll bring it to class and use it for homework. Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. The School Committee approved the move last year, and Hayes said he's getting the news out now so families can prepare. 'We have one platform,' Hayes said. 'And that's going to be the Mac.'"
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I'd need an exemption (Score:1, Funny)
As a member of the Stallman Cult, I am morally and religiously obligated not to work with closed platforms!
Re:What are they going to do? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Honestly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory flame seed (Score:3, Funny)
It's built right into the hardware? That's awesome and creepy on so many different levels.
Please.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My two cents (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My two cents (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger (Score:4, Funny)
I can't tell if you are joking or not.
Using tax-payer funds to subsidize personal Macintosh purchases?
Re:iNelson (Score:5, Funny)
Re:iNelson (Score:5, Funny)
Has anyone noticed that putting an exclamation after apple's iStuff makes it look like it's in spanish? iCarumba!
This is great. (Score:3, Funny)
School requires macs (personal or loaned, wtfever). Kids do schoolwork on macs at school. Rich kids learn to have things handed to them. Normal kids learn to work to buy themselves a mac, or they learn to do things on the home PC and how to use compatibility tools and/or how to convert docs from one type to another for use across both macs and PCs. Either way, lots of people will learn how important a worth ethic is and how important it is to understand the PC world in general as well as knowing how to launch facebook on your particular device.
Win/Win.
Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger (Score:4, Funny)
Taxes are voluntary as well... just sayin'.
Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger (Score:5, Funny)
Claris ate my homework. Moof.
Re:What are they going to do? (Score:5, Funny)
You're overstating OSX's abilities... a kid can trash a mac just as easily as a PC. One of our designer's mac's fell to his stupidity just last week. He installed something like 5000 fonts... brought the system to its knees.
Re:iNelson (Score:1, Funny)
Wrong then, but I'll gladly admit that. (But now im going to follow that up with a bullshit excuse to cover my ass)
Rather than being a troll. (OK I am going to be a troll but if I say Im not then maybe no one will notice it)
I guess I expected higher of IBM. ( How dare they name something that I would not remember. I dont have time for their crap when I am trolling around being a Correction Nazi. They should have consulted me before naming anything)
* Dear Correction Nazi Please Choose 1
A. Get a life so that correcting the minor mistakes of others no longer is the main joy in your life
B. Pull Your Bottom Lip Up Over Your Head Then Swallow.
Re:iNelson (Score:2, Funny)
Re:iNelson (Score:2, Funny)
lol yes .. (Score:3, Funny)
.. but I'm just advocating that all news sources discuss the latest apple releases together with the latest tween toy trends.
For example, you really needed to contemplate the iPad together with vajazzling if you hoped to comprehend either. I assure you that Apple's engineers were intently involved with bedazzling their phones while designing the iPad, just like the vajazzling developers.
Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger (Score:2, Funny)
Re:iNelson (Score:1, Funny)
Ugh, your wrong!
My wrong?
Re:My two cents (Score:1, Funny)
And what of those students who are going into liberal arts?
What platform is required to file for unemployment benefits?
Re:iNelson (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's whatever Steve Jobs says it is [youtube.com].
Re:iNelson (Score:3, Funny)
Hi's bad.
Re:iNelson (Score:3, Funny)
Must be good if people are lining up across the Pacific to get it.