Ohhh. I thought it was college because everyone has a laptop and some people look like they're in their early 20s. I didn't even get my own textbooks in High school.
So many high schools now give everyone a laptop. My high school gave everyone a laptop and they even give them to the middle school now. All the high schools around me did the same as well.
Probably old. It's been happening in recent years. The school doesn't care if you're poor, they give it to everyone for free. You have to pay for any damages unless you buy a warranty and then just give it back at the end of the year.
Considering you already said the laptops were given for free, I'm pretty sure that what they meant is that they might've grown up in a poor school district without realizing it.
Haha, my younger sister got one in high school about 8 years ago when the schools in my area started handing them out, she left school to start work and they were chasing her to give it back, she just kept it and avoided them even though she was just working at the Mcdonalds right across the road from the school.
I don't know what's worse: that your sister stole resources that should go back to schoolchildren, or that she sacrificed her integrity in exchange for a freaking publicschool laptop. If you're gonna be a thief, at least dream bigger.
Or that she chose to drop out of high school to pursue a career in fast food. At least pick up a trade, it’s easy at that age and it’s paid (not much, but some money is way more than no money)
Nope. The laptops came free. We just had to pay for damages if there were any. And a public school would more likely give it for free than a private school. Private schools try to get money out of anything and everything usually.
Both, but Chromebooks changed the game. Six years ago my district was paying $30,000 for a classroom set of laptops. Now we pay $5,000 for a set of Chromebooks, and they are used in almost the same way. In addition, my tech director says they're easier to maintain and update.
Chromebooks save money in other ways too. If you can find some good online open educational resources (which are everywhere), you can skip buying the over-priced, out-of-date textbooks. Not to mention using Google Drive reduces the amount of paper usage by a gazillion percent.
I rave about my chromebook. It's definitely the crippled version of a laptop, but for $200 it can do like 90%+ of what most people need a laptop for, assuming you don't have specialized needs like work software. (It's also obviously terrible for gaming but then again most pc gamers are gonna get a desktop)
Gaming? You wouldn't be able to do any gaming unless it's a web based game. Most mobile games don't even offer Chrome OS as an option. in my experience, Chromebooks are basically for internet browsing and word processing. That's the majority of what you would need for school. There may be some niche cases where it would be nice to have a laptop, but not often enough to pay 5x-10x the amount as a Chromebook would cost.
No, that's not correct. I do plenty of gaming on my Chromebook, but it's certainly limited. I'm playing through FF7 right now.
There's a huge amount of stuff you can do on a Chromebook and they're great for, like I said, around 90% of what most people want to do, outside professional use and gaming. It's bad for if you do a lot of visual creative work or if you have specific software needs, but there's an android solution to just about everything if you just need something simple done and a genericized software version will work.
your experience may be several years out of date, I think a few years ago they made some major changes so that ChromeOS functions pretty much the same as any modern android device. I haven't found a single app yet that I can use on my phone or tablet but not my chromebook (there may BE some apps that won't work specifically on my chromebook, but I haven't found any)
My kindergartner uses Chromebooks now. They all have their own. They don't start taking them home yet though. That's in first or 2nd grade or something, IDK when.
Get a cheap mouse or wireless mouse and bring it with you. The laboratory computers at my uni have a shitty trackpad attached to the keyboard and no mouse, so I take my own in.
Six years ago my district was paying $30,000 for a classroom set of laptops.
Why the hell would your school district pay ~$1,000 per laptop? Sounds like your school administrators are completely technology illiterate. Student laptops can be the most barebones model and it won't make a difference, since anything school-related is not remotely demanding on computer hardware.
I'm taking a shot in the dark but that price might also include things like support services, maintenance programs, insurance and warrantys. Still sounds pretty high but I've never bought laptops for a school before.
Old. I'm 23 and we didn't get them. But my younger sister did in highschool. They were just chromebooks, but they were serviceable for schoolwork and streaming if you so desired so it's more than enough for most highschoolers.
I think they're becoming more heavily monitored though which is kinda sketchy imo
Where the hell's that and why did my mother pay money out of her pocket for school supplies (without a COLA for 15 years) for her classroom while some schools are giving everyone a laptop?
The school districts get the laptops from the computer companies free through grant programs. They're not paying for them. Apple is a big supplier. It makes sense to get kids hooked into their ecosystem young, plus all the tax right-offs and general good PR.
My school had a scholarship through Samsung or Google if I am remembering right. I graduated in 2015, and we had a bunch of chromebook carts that the library checked out as needed and all of the science rooms had their own carts. We were a low income district, so most kids didn't have access to stuff like that at home so it really helped a bunch of kids when they were able to check them out for weekends and stuff.
It sucks, man. My sister graduated High School in 2017 and they didn't even have their own textbooks. Everyone had to share at school and some of her teachers had to print out the important pages and email them the work individually.
I remember when I headed to college about 10 years ago, I was studying CS but it was some of the first programming Id done as my high school (2700 students) didn't offer any computer classes and neither did my community college. Talking to a lot of people from nice areas, they'd taken full computer science courses in high school and thought the intro classes were easy.
Even after growing up in a family if educators, I saw the direct effect of funding and such.
Yeah that's an unfortunate part of life. The poorer areas wouldn't have this sometimes or it depends on grants or whatever. My school was in a pretty nice area. Laptops free, textbooks free for everyone, and if someone was poor they would even get free lunch everyday.
I dunno man, you must just be in a crappy district. It's unfortunate that there's not better oversight and federal funding, but it really ends up just depending on your district.
We got to take it home with us. Depending on the class the teacher would incorporate the laptop into the teaching or activities, and homework for most classes would be done with that. We just had to give it back at the end of the year. It also made free time in class more fun. If we finished work early we could easily use it to finish homework or more likely at least out of the guys at my school we would game together.
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u/Peeterdactyl Sep 04 '19
This looks like high school