If DetroitTeacher is encouraged about this, that's a good thing I guess....but count me among those who are skeptical about use of this money. I'd be very interested to know if there are even computer or technology classes in some of these DPS schools. I know when I was in school at DPS we barely had new equipment for the computer class we had, so I would assume classes like those would need better computers and other technology, instead of giving 35,000 kids cheapie laptops. The only positive I've heard so far is that the kids can "look stuff up"... well couldn't they do that before on their own computers or the computers the schools already had?? How about using the money for robotics classes or another elective class in which the kids could acutally learn something instead of dumbing things down for them even more by giving them laptops? How about a class where they can learn how to build the laptops themselves? Was the school board even involved in the use of the decision of this money? Whose idea was this?
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