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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:05 AM Original message |
Our schools are failing because of people like Bill Gates |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. Please note: |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. An avatar is worth a thousand words |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I have no financial interest in Microsoft, FWIW |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Why dispute what you said? It's so much easier to attack your avatar |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. my husband has worked in the tech department of several schools |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
22. WTH do teachers need to be issued blackberries? |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. And that's Bill Gates fault....how? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Bill should have used his Gates mobile to swoop in and stop it. |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. this isn't just about Bill Gates |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:18 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Do you really think he is pushing AIDS funding in Africa because of his interest in people living? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. That is the administration of those schools |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:18 AM Original message |
Unrec. |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. Look I hate Bill Gates as much as the next guy |
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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
5. Education is the last thing to change. Face it, it's all based on what went before; |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. It isn't a technical problem. |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 02:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. No reason textbooks have to even be purchased from |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 09:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Agreed open source textbooks is the solution |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 09:38 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Really I can't say the refinements accomplish much |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
8. fail |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. you did? I'm sorry...but that doesn't surprise me. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You should have used more educational anything as a child. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
10. Nobody's stopping schools from installing edubuntu |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
12. Microsoft literrally gives software away to schools. |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. tech money in the schools |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. It has nothing to do with taxes or grants. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
13. i'll take "absolutely full of shit" for $500 Alex. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
15. Write back when you have a fact to share. nt |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
17. So maybe I am full of shit |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:51 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I ran for school board--have you? It might be an eye-opening experience. |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. no I did not- perhaps you can tell us where technology money is being spent in the schools? |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Too many admins, agreed, but the software comes very inexpensively; |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. So should the hardware manufacturers give away their product |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Microsoft is just one of the many corporations siphoning off public education $$ |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Then run for school board. nt |
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Gaedel (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. The corporations and greedy assholes............ |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
21. The wrong is thick here |
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Count Olaf (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. the school has a computer for every 3 kids, but sixth graders can't do their multiplication tables |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. It may be that the technology |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. i agree with you on the benefits of educational software, but somehow blaming bill gates for the |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. Indeed. I don't like gates support of charter schools and privatization, but your point about |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
30. LOL! |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-27-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
39. so before Microsoft all our schools were awesome? |
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